In case you haven’t heard, the Netflix phenomenon Stranger Things will be getting a second season in 2017.
Some details have been revealed about the season, coming from an interview via Entertainment Weekly.
Ross Duffer, co-creator and director of the show, talked about why they made the second season a sequel.
“I don’t think we ever thought anthology. I think we talked like a larger time jump where the kids are older now and it’s a different decade. That’s something we batted around from the very beginning. But for us, there’s still more story here, there’s still things that are unresolved. We don’t know about Eleven. We leave that up in the air.”
Matt Duffer, the other creator and director, touched upon the inspirations going into season 2.
“I know movie sequels get a lot of s**t, but the ones we look up to aspire to pivot and do something different. There’s Temple of Doom, Aliens, Terminator 2. I guess a lot of this is James Cameron. But he’s brilliant. And I think one of the reasons his sequels are as successful as they are is he makes them feel very different without losing what we loved about the original. So I think we kinda looked to him and what he does and tried to capture a little bit of the magic of his work.”
And lastly, the brothers dished out some info regarding the setting of the upcoming season.
Ross: We obviously have this gate to another dimension, which is still very much open in the town of Hawkins. And a lot of questions there in terms of, if the Monster is dead, was it a singular monster? What else could be out there? We really don’t go in there much until they go in to find Will at the end. So we’ve opened up this doorway, and to us it’s exciting to talk about, like, what else is behind there? There’s a lot more mystery there to be solved.
Matt: We kinda just peeled back the curtain and revealed a tiny bit of the Upside Down. So we definitely want to explore a little bit more. There’s a lot we don’t know about the Upside Down at the end of season 1.
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Season 2 of Stranger Things hits Netflix exclusively in 2017.
Source: EW via Heroic Hollywood.
