{"id":125719,"date":"2025-10-16T11:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/125719\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:41:06","slug":"stranger-things-creators-reflect-on-regrets-after-spending-a-decade-on-the-same-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/125719\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Things Creators Reflect on \u201cRegrets\u201d After Spending a Decade on the Same Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a sweeping interview with Variety<\/a>, Stranger Things creators the Duffer brothers discuss everything from their creepy twin magic (\u201cthe Duffers have lived inside what [Shawn] Levy affectionately calls a \u2018bubble of twinship,\u2019\u201d the interview reveals) to their recently announced deal with Paramount. Mostly, though, the story focuses on Stranger Things\u2019 upcoming fifth and final season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the Duffers are unsurprisingly choosing to keep most of the final season\u2019s secrets to themselves, they do discuss the long road to this point in the show. In fact, they say that their time with Stranger Things went a little longer than they initially intended.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cPart of me regrets not having been able to tell more different stories over the course of 10 years,\u201d Matt Duffer reveals. \u201cSometimes I wonder about that \u2014 because it ate up our entire 30s. I wish we had gotten it done a little faster, but it is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ross Duffer echoes and expands on that sentiment by adding, \u201cBut when we started, it was very early Netflix. And I don\u2019t know how many more opportunities there are going to be to tell stories of this length on that size canvas. So whenever I have the regrets that Matt was saying, I\u2019m excited that we were able to take advantage of this very specific period of time in the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, why the regrets? Well, some of it is a simple matter of the pair wanting to get into filmmaking. The Duffers have made it clear that their recent deal with Paramount was largely prompted by their desire to make the kind of theatrically released movies that Netflix has largely shied away from. Still, Matt Duffer makes it clear that the pair could have made that decision long ago but stayed with Netflix and Stranger Things simply because they wanted to.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cTo go this long was our choice,\u201d Matt says. \u201cWe could have jumped ship and done movies, and we elected not to \u2014 and I\u2019m glad we didn\u2019t. We finished telling this story, and luckily we weren\u2019t too old when we started it, so we\u2019re OK. I mean, Ridley Scott didn\u2019t start making movies until he was in his 40s.\u201d<\/p>\n

That age comment is certainly a bit\u2026 odd, but the overall sentiment rings true. Throughout the interview, the Duffers say that they want to make sure that Stranger Things doesn\u2019t botch its ending as other famous shows have, so it makes sense that they wouldn\u2019t abandon the series part of the way through.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Interestingly, the interview also brings up a time when Matt told reporters that the brothers saw Stranger Things as a \u201cfour and done\u201d show. However, Matt notes that when they decided to go in a different direction with the show\u2019s third season and tell a slightly more isolated story that didn\u2019t advance the overall mythology as much as they perhaps intended, they ultimately decided to push the series to five seasons.\u00a0Of course, Stranger Things will also live on via spin-off series<\/a> that the Duffers will oversee. <\/p>\n

So while it doesn\u2019t sound like the Duffer brothers meant to be working on Stranger Things for five seasons, the show\u2019s final season is still scheduled to debut on Netflix on November 26. The second part of that season will be available via the streaming service starting on December 25, and the finale will debut on December 31.\u00a0
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