‘Stranger Things 5’ Is ‘Major Cinematic Storytelling’ and ‘As Big as Any of the Biggest Movies That We See,’ Says EP Shawn Levy
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director “Stranger Things 4” pushed television episode lengths to crazy extremes with two episodes that ran around 90 minutes and a season finale that was the length of a Hollywood blockbuster at nearly two-and-a-half hours.
Anyone thinking the upcoming fifth and final season of the Netflix series will scale things back is mistaken. Speaking to Total Film magazine, “Stranger Things” executive producer and director Shawn Levy said Season 5 will only expand the scale of the already-humungous Season 4. “There’s no way to be contiguous with Season 4, and not, frankly, expand scale and depth,” Levy said. “It’s major, major, cinematic storytelling that happens to be called a TV series. ‘Stranger Things 5’ is as big as any of the biggest movies that we see.” “Stranger Things 5” is waiting to kick off filming as soon as the Hollywood strikes come to an end.
David Harbour, who has played Hopper since the pilot episode, told the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast last month that he knows how series creators Matt and Ross Duffer will end the show. “I know where we net out and it’s very, very moving,” Harbour said.
That is the term I will use…It’s a hell of an undertaking, too. I mean, the set pieces and the things in the scripts that we saw are bigger than anything we’ve done in the past.” Millie Bobby Brown, who plays Eleven on the show, told Women’s Wear Daily last month that she is at peace with the star-making show coming to an end, adding, “I think I’m ready.
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