Warning! This text incorporates spoilers for Stranger Issues season 5, episode 8, “The Rightside Up.”
One of many largest mysteries left concerning Vecna’s origins will likely be addressed in Netflix’s upcoming Stranger Issues spinoff. Within the feature-length Stranger Issues collection finale, it was revealed that the Thoughts Flayer had at all times been the principle huge dangerous within the Upside Down and the Abyss; Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) was merely considered one of his “vessels.”
Throughout a flashback/dream sequence impressed by the Stranger Issues prequel play, Stranger Issues: The First Shadow, a younger Henry Creel (Maksim Blatt) finds a mysterious glowing rock in a briefcase, which supplies Henry/001 his uncommon powers and a connection to the Thoughts Flayer, kickstarting Stranger Issues’ horrible cycle of violence. Although the finale solely supplied a glimpse of the rock, Stranger Issues’ creators, the Duffer Brothers, have promised solutions.
In an interview with Selection following the premiere of Stranger Issues’ last episode, the Duffer Brothers confirmed that the story of that purple, glowing rock will play an element in Stranger Issues‘ upcoming spinoff. “The spinoff goes to delve into that and clarify that, and also you’re going to know it,” Matt Duffer stated, when requested how they’d greatest describe what the rock really is.
Even so, the Stranger Issues co-creator was fast to rein in “folks’s expectations” concerning the spinoff:
“It’s a very totally different mythology. So it’s not a deep exploration of the Thoughts Flayer or something like that. It’s very contemporary and really new, however sure, it’ll reply among the unfastened threads which might be remaining.”
The spinoff, initially introduced in 2022 following the premiere of Stranger Issues season 4, won’t be immediately linked to the story of Hawkins and the Upside Down, nor will it contain any of Stranger Issues’ present characters. “No widespread characters,” Duffer instructed Selection. “We’re really actually excited, and it’s very thrilling to work with a clear slate: utterly new characters, new city, new world, new mythology.”
Audiences should not count on the Stranger Issues world to develop into one thing as expansive as Star Wars, nevertheless. Weeks earlier than Stranger Issues season 5 premiered, Matt Duffer instructed Selection that it is “so totally different from one thing like Star Wars,” and that the spinoff would as an alternative preserve the flagship present’s “model” and “model of storytelling,” involving “youngsters, adventures, sci-fi/fantasy, moderately than more and more broaden what might turn into an insanely convoluted mythology.”
Equally, Ross Duffer instructed Selection that this spinoff, plus any potential future spinoffs, would “stay in a little bit of a distinct world”:
“There’s going to be connective tissue, however you’re nearly anthologizing in a means. As a result of we’re not ‘Star Wars.’ We will’t be like, ‘Oh, now we’re on this planet.’”
Ross Duffer confirmed that they’d resume work on the spinoff after the weekend, having taken a number of days off following the discharge of the finale. “We’ve been engaged on it on and off,” Duffer shared. Although the brothers are “closely creatively concerned” within the collection and will likely be listed as its creators, the duo will not be the spinoff’s showrunners.
Eleven’s (Millie Bobby Brown), Will’s (Noah Schnapp), Vecna’s, and the remainder of the Stranger Issues crew’s work is lastly accomplished, however it’ll doubtless be some time earlier than the glowing rock’s mysteries are revealed. Within the meantime, viewers will likely be reunited with among the present’s most beloved characters in Stranger Issues‘ upcoming animated collection, Stranger Issues: Tales from ’85, set within the winter between seasons 2 and three.
All episodes of Stranger Issues season 5 can be found now, solely on Netflix.
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2016 – 2025-00-00
- Community
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Netflix
- Showrunner
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Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer
- Administrators
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Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, Andrew Stanton, Frank Darabont, Nimród Antal, Uta Briesewitz
- Writers
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Kate Trefry, Jessie Nickson-Lopez, Jessica Mecklenburg, Alison Tatlock