The ‘Stranger Things’ Spinoff Is ‘1000% Different,’ Say the Duffer Brothers

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“Stranger Things” to go before the end of the Netflix series, the Duffer Brothers are already hard at work developing a spinoff series.

But the creators have revealed that the connective tissue between “Stranger Things” and this proposed spinoff may be looser than some fans are expecting.Appearing on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast, Matt and Ross Duffer confessed that Netflix doesn’t even know what the Duffers’ spinoff idea is yet, as they’re keeping it close to the vest.

But the brothers are developing it with the intention of handing it off to a different showrunner to spearhead the ship.“Hopefully we find that right person to pass the baton to while we go on to do new stuff,” the Duffer Brothers said, adding they’re “really jazzed” about this idea, which they describe as “1000% different” from “Stranger Things.”“It’s not following – I’ve read these rumors that there’s gonna be an Eleven spinoff, that there’s gonna be a Steve and Dustin spinoff, or that it’s another number,” they added. “That’s not interesting to me because we’ve done all that.

We’ve spent I don’t know how many hours exploring all of that. So it’s very different.”While there will be links between the two shows, the Duffer Brothers said they’re more focused on the tonal through lines between “Stranger Things” and this proposed spinoff.“The most important connective tissue I would say is the storytelling sensibility of it,” they continued.