Shawn Levy Shares Details About Building The Stranger Things Cinematic Universe
Netflix’s smash sensation, Stranger Things, finished airing its fourth season and the Duffer brothers—after creating an emotional roller coaster for fans of the beloved series and ending the season on a bittersweet note in more ways than one—have long since announced their plans to expand on the world of Hawkins, Indiana and the Upside Down it contains. Plays, a spinoff series, and more are all on their way to satiate audiences hungry for more creepy, telekinetic goodness.
Shawn Levy, the series’ executive producer who’s directed more than his share of episodes (including the fourth season episode that brought Kate Bush back in a big way, “Dear Billy”) told Variety that he and Ryan Reynolds have been trying to figure out a way to bring Marvel’s merc with a mouth, Deadpool, into Stranger Things.
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Interviewed on the red carpet for the 2022 Emmy awards, Levy mentioned that he’d been hanging out with Kevin Feige a lot more lately (probably to discuss the early planning stages of bringing Deadpool into the MCU). Said Levy, “Yes, we are building out the STCU, and now that I’m spending time with Kevin Feige, I’m learning a lot about how to manage a universe,” he said. “So I’m taking those skills and applying them to the STCU.”
Despite the next thing on his plate being Deadpool 3, the third helping of the hilarious and mega-popular X-Men spin off, Levy has been thinking about the other franchise he’s shepherded from the beginning. As happens with creatives, they’re going to create. He and Ryan Reynolds have been having their own sidebar on how to bring the loudmouth mercenary into the Stranger Things world: “Funnily enough, Ryan and I were
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