‘Stranger Things’: Duffer Brothers On Season 4’s Epic Scope; Long-Burning Mythology Questions Answered — Contenders TV
deadline.comStranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer know that it’s been a long wait for the fourth season of Netflix’s smash hit, but they promise an even greater payoff with the new season’s massively expanded scope and collective running time greater than any of the previous installments.“We kind of jokingly call it our Game of Thrones season because it’s so spread out, so I think that’s what’s unique or most unique about the season,” Matt Duffer said during Deadline’s Contenders Television panel, which he shared with his twin brother Ross and series star Winona Ryder.“Joyce and Byers family to have left at the end of Season 3,” said Matt, explaining the season’s expansive story landscape. “They are in California – we’ve always wanted to have that like ‘E.T’.-esque suburb aesthetic, which we finally got to do this year in the desert; and then we have Hopper in Russia; and then of course we have a group remaining in Hawkins.
So we have these three storylines, are all connected and kind of interwoven together, but it’s just very different tones.”Contenders TV: Deadline’s Complete CoverageRoss Duffer said that coming out of Season 3 the brothers knew the next chapter would feature a string of disparate locations, “[but] we didn’t know how big the season was going to get, and we didn’t even realize until we were about halfway through, just in terms of how much story that we wanted to tell this season.
Game of Thrones is one thing we’ve referenced, but also for us really what it’s about is revelations, in that we really wanted to start giving the audience some answers.”The brothers revealed that at long last, viewers will get some genuine clarity about the exact nature of the supernatural happenings that have been plaguing the
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