Enthusiasts of the "upside down world" rejoice: a spin- off series
from Netflix's smash hit
Stranger Things is being developed by its creators, the Duffer Brothers, the platform announced on Wednesday (July 6).
The saga, one of the most watched on Netflix, mixes science fiction, horror and teenage adventures in a small American town of the 1980s, where a group of young people find themselves struggling with monsters that have arisen from a parallel dimension.
Its fourth season, which aired recently, topped the platform's rankings for English-language works, which counts the number of hours watched within 28 days of a series' release.
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Season 4 of
Stranger Things
already has 1.15 billion hours on the clock, a figure that should increase further since the last episode only went live last week.
Worldwide, only the South Korean
Squid Game
series managed to do better.
The brothers Matt and Ross Duffer, creators and directors of the series, had indicated that the plot of
Stranger Things
would be definitively completed during a fifth season.
But they had also piqued the curiosity of fans by writing in an open letter that
“many other exciting stories have yet to be told in the world of
Stranger Things”.
On Wednesday, Netflix confirmed that a “
Stranger Things
spin- off series
based on an original idea by the Duffer Brothers”
was in the works.
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The dark and strange universe will also be the subject of a theatrical adaptation, with Stephen Daldry (
The Crown
) directing.
The company founded for the occasion by the Duffer brothers, Upside Down Pictures, also has in its boxes a live action adaptation project of the famous Japanese manga
Death Note
, and another of the novel
The Talisman
, co-written in the years 1980 by Stephen King and Peter Straub.
The announcement of the deal between Netflix and the Duffer brothers comes as the platform is under pressure from financial markets after losing subscribers for the first time this year after a long period of uninterrupted growth.