Stranger Things creator teases shorter episodes for season 5 – but mammoth finale-Rishma Dosani-Entertainment – Metro

*WARNING: Spoilers for Stranger Things below*

Stranger Things fans have only just settled back down after that bumper season four finale, but bosses already have their sights set on an epic conclusion to the sci-fi drama.

It was previously confirmed that series five we’ll see of the main gang in Hawkins, but there is a possibility for countless spin-offs to grace our screens instead.

Ahead of the fifth and final season, creators the Duffer brothers revealed that they will be making one change to the upcoming episodes, giving viewers shorter instalments than the latest batch of instalments – which came in at way longer than an hour.

‘We don’t expect it to be as long. And the only reason we don’t expect to be as long is because typically – or this season, if you look at it, it’s almost a two-hour ramp up before our kids really get drawn into a supernatural mystery,’ Matt Duffer explained on the Happy Sad Confused podcast.

‘You get to know them, you get to see them in their lives, they’re struggling with adapting to high school and so forth. Steve’s trying to find a date, all of that. None of that obviously is going to be occurring in the first two episodes of [season five]. For the first time ever, we don’t wrap things up at the end of four.

Stranger Things season 5 episodes will be shorter, co-creator Matt Duffer said (Picture: Netflix)

‘I don’t know that it’s going to be going 100 miles an hour at the start, but it’s going to be moving pretty fast. Characters are already going to be in action. They’re already going to have a goal and a drive, and I think that’s going to carve out at least a couple hours and make this season feel really different.’

However, Matt confessed that we can still expect the wrap-up to be ‘a lot longer’, adding: ‘It’s going to be Return Of The King-ish with, like, eight endings.’

As long as Steve Harrington (Joe Keery) survives at the end of all eight endings, we’re totally keen for whatever dangers come our way.

Could we get a spin-off of Jim Hopper? David Harbour would be keen (Picture: Netflix)

David Harbour, who plays Jim Hopper recently had his say on all things Stranger Things and the intense volume two finale in a new interview, admitting he has no clue where the beloved characters will go in the new episodes or how they could defeat Vecna.

Discussing a possible spin-off for the police chief, he explained that he would be excited to see his character explored further.

‘I think as soon as the show ends, or maybe six months before it ends, you’ll be hearing about whatever spin-offs they have planned…,’ he told GQ Hype.

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‘At this point, I think Hopper is a character that can exist independent of me. If they wanna go back in time, forward in time… I’d love to see another actor play Hopper, and see what they can bring to it.’

Tipping Jocob Elordi for a young Hop, he added: ‘He could pull off being as handsome as I was at 20.’

Fair play.

Stranger Things is available to stream on Netflix now.

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