I was thinking Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Seriously, none of you remember The Big Lebowski?
It was an event. There aren't many events in the TV landscape anymore because it's all on streaming but for a week, you tuned into a channel and shared on an event like miniseries with others. It was a memorable time.
Finally decided to start a rewatch of Stranger Things, with a little more than 30 days to go before the premiere. I'm going to try to pace myself on this, especially with Season 4. There's a lot of shows and movies I'm interested in this winter though. Did see the first two episodes and I forgot Barbara was killed early on.
Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ Series Finale Officially Coming to Theaters, Despite Previous Statements
The streamer has confirmed that the hit show's finale will be in theaters after previously seeming to shoot down the idea amid the show's creators The Duffers Brothers defecting to Paramount: "They would have been nuts not to do it."
www.hollywoodreporter.com
Okay, that's a source I trust!
Fingers crossed my theater is among those who will screen it.
Fingers crossed my theater is among those who will screen it.
I'm two weeks late but I finally had a chance to read Time's cover story. The whole article is a fantastic read with lots of great insights on the development of the show since the beginning, focused on primarily in each of the six young leads.
Of course, there are some tidbits about the final season, most notably this bit which I'm going to spoiler code:
Of course, there are some tidbits about the final season, most notably this bit which I'm going to spoiler code:
"Netflix representatives drive me in a golf cart around the sprawling Stranger Things campus. I watch what appears to be a hallucination in which Holly—Nancy and Mike’s baby sister from Season 1 who is now played by 13-year-old Nell Fisher—wanders through a labyrinthine orange rock formation in a ’50s-era blue A-line dress, reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland, blood smeared across her forehead."
"Hilary Leavitt, the president of the Duffers’ Upside Down Pictures, begins to explain how the scene connects to the Stranger Things stage production, The First Shadow, which premiered on London’s West End before transferring to Broadway earlier this year. Holly’s vintage outfit is an important detail, and, later, when I visit an old-fashioned room, there’s an Alice in Wonderland picture hanging on the wall—though I’m distracted by a Raggedy Ann doll with a missing eye and a demonic-looking stuffed bunny. As Leavitt leads me down the rabbit hole, the brothers exchange a look, and Matt half-jokingly asks Leavitt not to spoil the season."
"Hilary Leavitt, the president of the Duffers’ Upside Down Pictures, begins to explain how the scene connects to the Stranger Things stage production, The First Shadow, which premiered on London’s West End before transferring to Broadway earlier this year. Holly’s vintage outfit is an important detail, and, later, when I visit an old-fashioned room, there’s an Alice in Wonderland picture hanging on the wall—though I’m distracted by a Raggedy Ann doll with a missing eye and a demonic-looking stuffed bunny. As Leavitt leads me down the rabbit hole, the brothers exchange a look, and Matt half-jokingly asks Leavitt not to spoil the season."
That's fair and normally I agree, but my theater is just down the road. If they show the finale, I'm definitely going.
I thought they would wait until Halloween for the final trailer but here it is!
And what an epic trailer it is. This final season is going to be brutal.
"Will. You're going to help me. One last time."
And what an epic trailer it is. This final season is going to be brutal.
"Will. You're going to help me. One last time."
Good music choice.
I don't know the song but the lyrics are a great match for the season, although it's curious they didn't use the original Queen version and instead used an obscure techno cover from an Italian duo.
Yeah well, the original song wouldn't fit that well over the trailer which is rather fast pace cut and the song is anything but fast so you have to spice it up.
Cool trailer, as expected shit hits the fan and it's less than 4 weeks away. Still miffed they split it up into 3 (!) parts, i so hate that.
Yeah, I noticed that when I pulled up the original on YouTube. I wonder if they'll use the original in the show.
I actually like the split because it allows more discussion than usual as we race towards the end. In general, I agree with you about disliking split seasons as has increasingly become the norm for Netflix (last season, Wednesday, Sandman, etc.) but I think it works here. The Duffers wrote the split season in mind and then Netflix suggested airing the finale on its own. I love that the three airing hit each of the major holidays as event viewing for families.
Good trailer. I'm currently at the end of Season 2 in my rewatch and it's so weird watching them as kids and then watching the trailer and seeing them all as adults, especially Millie Brown and the guy who plays Dustin. I think the only two who haven't changed that much are Winona and the guy who plays Johnathon.
crazy how its been 10 years of stranger things
2015 started production and 2025 ends the series
2015 started production and 2025 ends the series
The Duffer brothers talked extensively with Entertainment Weekly about this trailer and what to expect in the final season, and there are a lot of great teases...
Will's role in the season and how it all ties back to the beginning:
Damn, I'm super excited. Just a few more weeks!
Will's role in the season and how it all ties back to the beginning:
According to Ross, the key to understanding Vecna’s line to Will lies in season 2, episode 6, “The Spy,” when the Byers boy was brought to Hawkins Laboratory for evaluation. He calls it “the most important episode,” teasing, “Will was really working, in a way, for the Mind Flayer.”
Now in season 5, Ross adds, “We start to learn more about what happened and what the connection is to all of this and Vecna.”
The trailer reaffirms that Will is crucial to the conclusion of this story that began nine years ago when the show premiered on Netflix. “Because the story really began with Will and his disappearance, it felt, in order to go full circle, it needed to really end with him in so many ways," Matt says. "In the last couple seasons, we hadn’t really centered much of the show on Will. So there was so much to explore with him from a character perspective and plot perspective."
Stranger Things first introduced Vecna/Henry Creel/One in season 4, while Will was off in California, but the character returned to Hawkins in the finale — a distinction that yielded “really rich territory to explore their connection and relationship,” Matt adds.
It’s also why the final season begins in the fall of 1987, near the anniversary of Will’s disappearance in the Upside Down. “So much of the season was built around the idea of coming full circle, answering many of the questions that were posed all the way back in season 1,” Matt continues. “I think the two biggest questions that we didn’t really answer in season 1 that we do answer this season is ‘what is the Upside Down, truly?’ and ‘why was Will taken?’”
Seeing a lot more of the Upside Down:
“These gates have opened up. We have a full military present in Hawkins and it’s under quarantine,” Ross comments. “I will say, of course the military is doing stuff in the Upside Down, but it really is a mystery to our characters and the audience for the beginning of the show.”
Matt chimes in: “A lot of the season takes place in the Upside Down. If I have to look at one more visual effects shot, I don’t know what I’m gonna do. We will never make anything else with floating anything. Snow, spores, ash, I’m done with all that.”
And what about floating islands? Another snippet from the trailer shows someone falling from the sky in the Upside Down as hovering masses of land bob around the clouds. That’s another piece the Duffers decline to talk much about. “As you start to discover more about the Upside Down, that’s when that imagery comes into play,” Ross says.
“We reveal really everything about the Upside Down, all of which was planned out in season 1,” Matt adds. “It was fun to finally pull back the curtain on all of that.”
How much of each episode is seen in the trailer:Among the shots the Duffers don’t want to say much about just yet is that red energy pulse emanating from a giant antenna. “It plays a very important role on the show,” Matt comments. “You're not gonna see that in Volume 1, either. It’s in Volume 2.”
The first four episodes of the final season will be released as Volume 1 on Netflix on Nov. 26, while the next batch of three will release as Volume 2 on Christmas Day. Then on New Year’s Eve, the series finale will screen simultaneously in movie theaters and on Netflix.
From the trailers released so far, Matt confirms the footage has mostly been from Vol. 1. However, “There are shots from every single episode, including the finale.” This new one in particular “has something from [episodes] 7 and 8. So I think every episode is accounted for,” Ross says. “The marketing team actually hasn't seen the finale, but we did send them a couple shots that we thought could work. They're in there, but I'm not gonna tell you which shots.”
Not taking death lightly:Ross does concede, however, “It’s a brutal season, I will say that.”
“Yeah, it's very brutal,” Matt continues. “It's violent. The stakes are higher than ever. Because you're hurtling through the end, a lot more is on the table, I will say. Hopefully it's surprising and earned, what's happened. We weren't going for shock value.”
The Duffers don’t take death lightly. Exploring the death of a main character often felt "so heavy," Matt admits. "It feels like it completely changes what the show is. So we're just very careful about when we do it and who dies.”
For example, the loss of Eddie, who died from Demobats in the season 4 finale, “affects the entirety of season 5," Matt notes. “There is no season 6, so we need to make sure, if and when there are deaths, that it makes sense in terms of where we want our characters to end up at the end of the show. That was a lot of the discussion this year.”
Those are the biggest highlights but the whole article is worth reading.Damn, I'm super excited. Just a few more weeks!
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