Stranger Things' Vecna Design Was Heavily Influenced by GOT Night King
Warning: MAJOR SPOILERS for Stranger Things season 4 volume 1
Prosthetics makeup designer Barrie Gower reveals how his Vecna design for Stranger Things was inspired by Game of Thrones' Night King. Season 4 of Netflix's highly successfully series finally premiered its first of two volumes on May 27 following a series of COVID-19 setbacks, with volume 2 set to release on July 1. Stranger Things season 4 has since proven a major success that's continued to win over viewers old and new with a compelling addition to its iconic story.
One of the greatest new elements of Stranger Things season 4 is its lead villain, Vecna. Portrayed by Jamie Campbell Bower, Henry Creel, the son of Victor Creel — played by Nightmare on Elm Street'sFreddy Krueger actor Robert Englund — and 001 in Dr. Martin Brenner's (Matthew Modine) Hawkins Lab program is revealed to be a major force in the Upside Down. Throughout the season, he hunts teenagers in Hawkins with traumatized minds, typically those absorbed with guilt from certain tragic events. Viewers get their best look at Vecna when Max (Sadie Sink) is almost killed by him, only to be saved by her friends with Kate Bush's «Running Up That Hill.» Between an eerie red glow and a tentacle-like body structure, Vecna proves to be one of Stranger Things' most terrifying villains yet.
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Now, Vecna's designer Gower has the chance to share just how Vecna's look came to be, which has a surprising connection to HBO's Game of Thrones. With much of Vecna being brought to life with practical prosthetics, the task was already ambitious, but Gower has experience. He tells CinemaBlend that the Duffer brothers praised his work on the Night King as well as Chernobyl, two
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