The Hawkings kids are going to have to come to grips with it. Vecna will be the villain of the long-awaited season 4 of Stranger Things, the first episodes of which will be unveiled on May 27.
“The time has come to end your sufferings”. It is with these words that the beast made his strange voice resound in the trailer. Behind his humanoid monster looks, hides a mythical character from Dungeons & Dragons, the cult role-playing game already at the origin of the monsters of the Upside Down, namely the Demorgogon, the Demogogs and the Mind Flayer.
“It’s the monsters that really inspired us this season, explained the creators in a fascinating interview for IGN. We also wanted to go back to what we did in Season 1, which was a monster that we could do live on set. What you see in the series is 90% done with practical effects. And Vecna, throughout the season, is 90% achieved by practical effects! We wanted a presence on set that our actors could react to. Because in Season 3 they were playing against a beach ball… So there, we wanted something that we could actually film, and I just think it makes this villain more scary, more real, and tangible.”
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God of magic and secrets, Vecna can manipulate minds through fear. As for his look, he recalls that of the Night King in Game of Thrones. And it is not fortuitous, since it is the prosthetist artist Barrie Gower who gave birth to the two…
Game of Thrones is definitely hovering over season 4. “We like to humorously dub it ‘Game of Thrones season’ because it explodes on all sides and that’s what makes it unique,” Matt Duffer said in a post. interview for Deadline. “We only realized halfway through the writing phase that this season was going to be huge. We obviously refer to Game of Thrones through these multiple points of view, but also in terms of twists and revelations. This season, fans will finally have their questions about the Upside Down mythology answered,” added his brother Ross.
The creators of Stranger Things have referenced Game of Thrones while speaking about Season 4, explaining that the story just became “bigger and bigger.” https://t.co/8RhJDL2MiS pic.twitter.com/E8uOJ0WSfp
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Much more supernatural
For season 4, which they wanted to be decidedly darker and more horrifying, they also explained to IGN that they wanted a monster in the vein of Hellraiser, a horror character like those who terrified them when they were children. Like Freddy Krueger whose main actor Robert Englund joins the cast this year.
“We spend more time in the Upside Down than in any other season,” the Duffers said. “We wanted to do the haunted house thing, I think, for a while,” Matt says. “Every year we try to do something different. It was a more terrifying season. The kids are in high school, and it seemed only natural that they would be in a horror movie.”
Note that Vecna will not be the only monster in the new season of Stranger Things. The trailer also quickly reveals that a fight between Hopper, stuck in Russia, and a Demogorgon will take place in some sort of pit. “This is just a glimpse of a pretty crazy sequence,” the Duffer brothers still told IGN. “It’s something we’ve always wanted to do, which is kind of a gladiator-style sequence with a Demogorgon,” Matt said.
“And just the idea of seeing a Demogorgon in the snow is something that we’ve been obsessed with and have been obsessed with for about four years now, which I think is why we wrote it in Russia and left hear that there was a Demogorgon in Russia at the end of season 3”.