A ‘Stranger Things’ Star Guessed What The Upcoming Spin-Off Will Be

Despite the fact that Netflix itself has yet to confirm or announce a Stranger Things spin-off, it absolutely exists, and the Duffer Brothers are operating under the clear mandate that they essentially have a blank check to do whatever they want after the success of the original series.

That apparently includes talking about it and confirming it, despite the fact that Netflix itself hasn’t done this. In a recent interview with Variety, they talk about how they’re not going to shoot it until Stranger Things season 5 is over, even if in theory, they could do both in parallel.

They tease that it’s going to be different than what anyone expects, which may include some past guesses like that one weird episode with Elle’s “siblings” that were never revisited:

“The reason we haven’t done anything is just because you don’t want to be doing it for the wrong reasons, and it was just like, ‘Is this something I would want to make regardless of it being related to Stranger Things or not?’ And definitely. Even if we took the Stranger Things title off of it, I’m so, so excited about it. But it is not… It’s going to be different than what anyone is expecting, including Netflix.”

What’s funny is that even though they’re not sharing any details about it, one of the stars of the show, Finn Wolfhard (Mike), actually guessed what they were going to do without being told:

“Finn Wolfhard, he wasn’t spitballing, he just went, ‘I think this would be a cool spin-off. And we were like, ‘How in the world…'”

The only thing we’ve heard about the future of the Stranger Things “universe,” (because everything is a universe now) is that the Duffer Brothers have said that “there are still many more exciting stories to tell within the world of Stranger Things; new mysteries, new adventures, new unexpected heroes.”

So, if this is not what anyone expects, I do wonder if it will not actually peel out any of the existing cast members, the way spin-offs usually do. This may be something that takes place within the same universe, as in a world where the Upside Down exists, but far, far away from Hawkins and the main cast. And yet, still something that Finn Wolfhard could have guessed with no prompting. So we’ll have to see what that could be.

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