Matt and Ross Duffer, known professionally together as the Duffer Brothers, released their show on Netflix on July 15, 2016, and the rest, as they say, is history.
The series became one of Netflix’s flagship shows, and its immense popularity contributed to the streaming platform’s global success.
Season 5, which will also be the final chapter of the show, has wrapped filming and is slated to come out sometime in 2025. It was previously revealed that the season will have eight episodes in total.
And now, Ross Duffer has disclosed that each of those episodes would be like a “blockbuster” movie. The Duffer Brothers recently made an appearance at the annual Next on Netflix event, where previews from movies and TV shows from the service’s 2025 slate were live-streamed worldwide.
The siblings gave the audience a new behind-the-scenes teaser for Stranger Things Season 5 and spoke on the future of the show and what fans could expect. “We spent a full year filming this season,” Ross Duffer said. “By the end, we had captured over 650 hours of footage.