Why Stranger Things Season 4 Has Taken SO Long To Happen
It’s been almost three years since fans have had a new season of Stranger Things, but why has season 4 taken so long to happen? Previous seasons of Stranger Things have, in the past, taken quite some time to produce. Even season 3 took two years to release after the premiere of season 2. But, what’s different about Stranger Things season 4 that’s made this gap between seasons the series’ longest yet?
In an interview towards the end of last year (via Collider), executive producer Shawn Levy shed some light on the subject of Stranger Things’ season 4 delay. Not only did he refer to Stranger Things season 4 as “the most ambitious of the seasons,” but he also cited some interesting specifics when it came to the scale of the Stranger Things creative team. Not to mention, of course, necessary COVID safety protocols have been implemented across every television and film set currently shooting, and Levy himself referenced these rules in talking about Stranger Things season 4.
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Based on Levy’s interview, the biggest sources of the delay between Stranger Things seasons 3 and 4 seems to be a combination of newfound COVID protocols on set slowing the overall process down, and the fact that Shawn Levy, Matt, and Ross Duffer, are still the sole producing/directing team behind the acclaimed series, meaning their resources are being spread increasingly thin. Further on in his interview, Levy makes reference to the fact that he and the Duffer brothers still oversee almost every aspect of production. With the potentially formula-breaking Stranger Things season 4 breaking the formula and taking place across three locations, this means the trio’s attention is
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