Final Season “Stranger Things”
Production has to be postponed because of a writers’ strike
Actress Millie Bobby Brown in “Stranger Things”.
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Fans are waiting for the final season of the series “Stranger Things”. The makers have now announced that production has been postponed.
The production of the final season “Stranger Thrings” has to be postponed due to the ongoing writers’ strike. The creators of the Netflix series, Matt and Ross Duffer (39), in a tweet announced by Saturday (May 6th). “The writing doesn’t stop once filming begins,” it says. “While we look forward to starting production with our amazing cast and crew, this is not possible during this strike. We hope that a fair settlement can be reached soon so we can all get back to work. Until then – over and out.”
The influential US writers’ union WGA announced in early May that thousands of American screenwriters were laying down their jobs. The reason for the strike: the authors are demanding better pay and better framework conditions for their work. According to the union, its approximately 11,500 members are in an “existential crisis” and are struggling with increasingly difficult living conditions. It would be about nothing less than the “survival of the writing profession”. The focus of criticism is primarily on the large streaming companies such as Netflix, Disney + or Amazon. In view of the enormous growth in streaming offers, a higher salary and a higher profit share for the authors are appropriate.
The strike has already impacted production on daily late-night shows, Saturday Night Live has ended its season early and the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards will go ahead without a live ceremony this Sunday. Actress Drew Barrymore (48) had shown solidarity with the striking authors and canceled their moderation of the award.
Emotional ending
Details about the plot of the fifth season of “Stranger Things” and the grand finale are not yet known. “We made our executives cry, which I took as a good sign,” director Matt Duffer said at an event in Los Angeles in November 2022 “The Hollywood Reporter” reports. He and his brother Ross introduced season five at a two-hour meeting. “The only other times I’ve seen her cry was at budget meetings,” he said.
They viewed season five as “a culmination of all seasons,” Ross Duffer said. You have a little bit of each other. Before that, each season had a clear imprint. The third was her “big summer blockbuster season with our big monster”, the fourth was characterized by “psychological horror”. They now want to return to the tone of the first season, but build on the scope of season four. “Hopefully it has a bit of everything,” says the director.
The retro mystery series “Stranger Things” is one of the biggest series successes of the streaming service Netflix. Last year’s season four ranked number one with over 1.3 billion hours streamed in the first 28 days of its release the all-time Netflix leaderboard of English-language series.