The Duffer Brothers have effectively ruled out eventually revisiting Mike, Eleven and co. in a “Stranger Things” sequel as a “gross cash grab,” despite a spinoff of the Netflix hit on the horizon.
Matt Duffer told The Hollywood Reporter that “there’s no plan or intention to tell the story because it’s a coming-of-age story. Ultimately, that’s what it’s supposed to be. That’s what the show always was.”
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers from the “Stranger Things” series finale.
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“I mean, Mike’s closing the basement door. We’re closing the door on the story,” said Matt Duffer. “He’s closing the door on his childhood and he’s moving onto adulthood.”
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Though Duffer acknowledged there could be a follow-up exploring “a midlife crisis” for the group, he decided it “just sounds really uninteresting! [Laughs] Grandpa Hopper? I don’t know how that would read as anything but a gross cash grab to me.”
Then again, there is a “Stranger Things” Broadway show — whose lore contributes to the fifth and final season — and a spinoff in the works, which Duffer said will center on “new characters and a new mythology.”
But, he added, “It feels like … we finished saying everything we wanted to say about these characters, this story and the Upside Down.”
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