Stranger Things: why there will never be a sequel to season 5
“Just something to make money…” The Duffers nip any idea of a season 6 or a revival in the bud.
No hidden episode 9. No secret season 6. No reunion later.
Stranger Things is totally over. And the Duffers say it again in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. There are no plans to extend the soundtrack’s narrative: “Mike closes the door to the basement. We close the door on the story. It’s the end of their story. It’s the end of the story of Mike and Eleven, of Joyce and Hopper.” He reminds us that Stranger Things has always been a coming-of-age story, and that this narrative is now complete.
His brother Ross Duffer insists on this finality: “We have finished saying everything we wanted to say about these characters, this story and the Upside Down.”
And even the simple idea of a revival, in ten or twenty years, with the band becoming adults, seems incongruous to them:
“A sequel would be about our heroes’ mid-life crisis… That doesn’t seem very interesting… Grandpa Hopper? I don’t see how this could be anything other than a simple commercial stunt, just a gimmick to make money…”
However, the Duffers are not completely leaving Hawkins. The Stranger Things universe will develop through new formats: firstly an animated series entitled Stranger Things: The Chronicles of 1985, to be seen in 2026.
Then a live-action spin-off and a series. This spin-off, above all, will “connect to the original series and answer certain questions left unanswered”, in particular on the mysterious rock and the scientist seen in the finale. This new series will explore “an entirely new mythology”, distinct from the Mind Flayer or the Upside Down. Although it won’t focus on the original cast, it will retain the “spirit of Stranger Things.” No date yet.
