Stranger Things: Tales From '85 showrunner Eric Robles
talked to Entertainment Weekly about the show and he had some interesting insights about its development:
"I dissected the show, looking for any loopholes. I found a few of 'em," Robles tells Entertainment Weekly. "And then I found this one idea that I was just like, 'Oh s---! I think that's it.'" What is this big idea? "Hawkins Lab science meets Upside Down matter," he teases, while noting of the closed gateway, "There's a chain reaction to the creatures that are in our world and the things that are popping up."
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Stranger Things: Tales From '85 will feature "a lot of freaking cool monsters," Robles further teases, clarifying that "it's not just 'monster of the week' for the sake of 'monster of the week.'" Everything is connected to a season-long mystery.
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Flying Bark Productions, the animation house behind What If...?, is working on Stranger Things: Tales From '85. But when it came to the visuals, Robles looked less to Marvel and more to the original posters of Stranger Things — the artwork from Kyle Lambert, who heavily pulled from the Spielbergian work of late movie poster artist Drew Struzan.
"Those posters have it all. They have these brilliant colors, there's darks, there's vibrancy to it," he explains. "I'm just like, 'That's the show!' If I can bring those posters to life, I got something pretty awesome. And that's exactly what we did."
Stranger Things season 2 took place during the fall of 1984, while season 3 picked back up months later in the summer of 1985. Apparently, a lot can happen between those dates. Should the animated offshoot work, Robles says any future season will remain under the Tales From '85 title. His first season progresses hours by hours, day by day.
"If we need to keep going, we definitely can do it," he finishes. "If we were to do the finale of, like, season 25, Dustin's going to camp, Elle and Mike are heavily dating. It would connect perfectly with the timeline in that sense, but allowing to still have enough ample time to tell these stories within as many seasons as needed."
Lots of great information here but the most curious tidbit is the show's direct storyline. I'm all for more of the Upside Down!
