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Stranger Things season five has been shared by the show’s writers.After announcing work had begun on the fifth and final season’s script in September, the Stranger Things writer’s room account on X posted a description of the opening establishing shot from the script.“DARKNESS. The sound of COLD WIND,” the script reads. “GROANING TREES.
And… A CHILD’S VOICE. Singing a familiar song.”It’s unclear whether the “familiar song” is simply a famous track or a song previously used in the show – with the fourth season featuring ‘Running Up That Hill’ by Kate Bush and Metallica’s ‘Master Of Puppets’.Season 5. Chapter 1.
Scene 1. pic.twitter.com/TIkf1DNipu— stranger writers (@strangerwriters) November 7, 2023While writing is underway on the fifth season, it’s unclear when shooting will begin due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike.On Tuesday (November 7), the actors’ union said it differed on “several essential items” in response to what was called the “last, best and final” offer from AMPTP, who represent the likes of Netflix and Disney. As such, negotiations could still continue until the end of 2023.In September, Stranger Things producer Shawn Levy teased the cinematic ambitions of the show’s final season.“There’s no way to be contiguous with season four, and not, frankly, expand scale and depth,” Levy said to Total Film.
“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.”Speaking to NME, co-creator Matt Duffer confirmed the final season will be paced differently in comparison to previous seasons.“Typically in the previous seasons, everything wraps up in a nice bow,” Matt said. “Four and five are really [connected] together.
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sat down for a discussion with current emcee Stephen Colbert at Manhattan’s Ed Sullivan Theater on Monday.Letterman’s appearance as a guest on Colbert’s show was his first since he departed the “Late Show” in 2015 after a 22-year run. The two men just spent the segment happily chatting, with Colbert, 59, asking if Letterman longs to be back on his “Late Show” stage.“I miss everything,” the comedian confessed.“Mostly it’s fun. Very few things in life provide one the opportunity — and I can’t speak for you or to you on this topic — But for me, if you muck one up, 24 hours later you get to try again,” he added.
Stranger Things stage spin off, Stranger Things: The First Shadow.The theatre prequel, which is being staged at London’s Phoenix Theatre, is set to start on December 14, with previews having begun this week (November 17).Netflix and Sonia Friedman Productions have shared a production still, featuring a young Henry Creel (played by Louis McCartney) facing down a Demogorgon in a richly coloured, misty setting under a swirling cloud of bats. See the image below.Stranger Things: The First Shadow is set in 1959 and will follow young versions of Jim Hopper, Bob Newby and Henry Creel.
The Hawkins, Indiana stage show just got a little creepier and a little nearer to launch.
All The Light We Cannot See brings the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to the small screen.Based on Anthony Doerr’s novel of the same name, the historical drama follows the lives of two teenagers, a blind French girl named Marie-Laure (Aria Mia Loberti) and German soldier Werner (Louis Hofmann), whose paths cross in occupied France at the height of World War II.Alongside its two leads, the four-part series stars Lars Eidinger, Hugh Laurie, Mark Ruffalo and Marion Bailey. The series is written by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, with Stranger Things producer Shawn Levy serving as a director and executive producer.A synopsis reads: “Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, All the Light We Cannot See tells the story of Marie-Laure Leblanc, a blind French girl taking refuge with her father and reclusive uncle in St.
Stranger Things, shared the clip on his Instagram Stories, where he’s seen handing out the stickers, including some which say “Hamas is ISIS”, with friends.Schnapp previously posted a statement (October 11) where he called for “peace for both Palestinians and Israelis” following the October 7 attack by Hamas militants, which killed around 1,400 Israeli civilians and soldiers.While he said Hamas “don’t represent the Palestinian people”, he concluded: “You either stand with Israel or you stand with terrorism. It shouldn’t be a difficult choice.
David Harbour has opened up about returning to Stranger Things in a new interview.Speaking to People, Harbour said he was “thrilled” to start working on Stranger Things again after the SAG strike ended on November 9.Harbour, who plays Jim Hopper in the long-running Netflix show, says he will be back filming on the show tomorrow (November 13).“I mean, I don’t know if we’ll be shooting next week, but yeah, as soon as possible,” he told the outlet, saying that he heard from the programme’s show runners as soon as the news about the strike ending was announced.“They literally called me, I think it was 10 minutes after the SAG thing on Twitter,” Harbour explained. “The first AD [assistant director] is like, ‘So, get the flight for you on Monday, right? We’ll be acting in Atlanta.’”“I’m thrilled with that.
A year before his death, Matthew Perry revealed that he asked “Friends” co-creator Marta Kauffman to give him the final line of the series. “No one else will care about this except me,” Perry wrote in his memoir, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.”“So may I please have the last line?” he asked the producer. Perry’s wish, of course, was granted, as the Season 10 finale ended with Chandler and Monica (played by Perry and Courteney Cox) saying goodbye to their empty apartment alongside Rachel (Jennifer Aniston), Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), Joey (Matt LeBlanc) and Ross (David Schwimmer).At one point, Rachel suggests they all go grab a final cup of coffee before Chandler and Monica leave New York City and go to live in the suburbs with their children.
Netflix has dropped a video preview of the upcoming stage play “Stranger Things: The First Shadow,” which begins performances this month in London.“We were in the middle of breaking Season 4 with our writers, and we started going, ‘OK, well, there’s definitely more story to tell here,’” says Ross Duffer, who co-created the sci-fi series with his brother, Matt, in the featurette. “We wanted to tell an original story set in the ‘Stranger Things’ universe.”The all-new tale, written by series writer Kate Trefry, will be a prequel — so don’t come looking for Mike, Will, Dustin, Lucas or Eleven — partly about young Hopper and Joyce, played on the streaming show by David Harbour and Winona Ryder, respectively.Those roles will be taken on at the Phoenix Theatre by Oscar Lloyd and Isabella Pappas.
For most people, today is just November 6. But if you’re a diehard “Stranger Things” fan, you know that today is actually Stranger Things Day.
Winona Ryder asked “What is Netflix” in the first meeting she had about appearing in Stranger Things.Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, series director and executive producer Shawn Levy recalled Ryder’s meeting about the show, remembering how she asked bosses to explain exactly what Netflix was.“She opened by asking, ‘What is Netflix? What is streaming? Is it like TV but different?’” Levy explained. “That was the starting point…Winona took a little onboarding to explain this emerging form of storytelling called Netflix and streaming.”Ryder went on to be cast in the show as Joyce Byers and will return for filming the fifth and final season of the show next year.Check out Levy’s interview in full here:Elsewhere in the interview, Levy went on to say season five will be “epic in its cinematic scope.”He continued: “But it’s very much ‘Stranger Things’.
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What To Watch. Today we recommend a mix of new releases and newly available titles, from movies and shows, all available to stream on the most popular platforms.5 Latin horror movies to watch this HalloweenWhat to watch: 7 movies and shows to stream this week — Oct 27The new Netflix mini-series is a curious blend of things. Directed by Shawn Levy, known for his upbeat and nostalgic work in “Stranger Things,” “Free Guy,” and “The Adam Project,” “All The Light We Cannot See” is a tone shift.
Don’t go into Netflix‘s adaptation of All The Light We Cannot See expecting it to be a direct translation of Anthony Doerr’s bestselling novel.
The final season of Stranger Things is still on pause, but even as the principal cast gets older, executive producer Shawn Levy doesn’t think the team will need to go to any extreme lengths to de-age them.
Season one of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” came out of nowhere and became a pop culture phenomenon fast in the summer of 2016. By this point, Netflix had already had a big hit with 2013’s “House Of Cards,” which earned the company its first Emmy nominations.
Stranger Things fans believe that Jonathan Byers will get more screen time in season five.The character, portrayed by Charlie Heaton, was given limited screen time in season four, but he has been spotted in a number of pre-vis teasers that have been shared on X, including one with Steve (Joe Keery) and another with Nancy (Natalia Dyer) and Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) driving a car through the Upside Down world.He played a significant role in the Netflix show particularly in the first series when he first appeared as the older brother of Will Byers (Noah Schnapp).But he has had less screen time as the seasons have gone on.One more week without a deal. One more week closer to this: pic.twitter.com/YoisWTVIA3— stranger writers (@strangerwriters) October 20, 2023The show will end after its fifth upcoming season.