Both a third and fourth season of Stranger Things have been confirmed and quite frankly, their arrival dates cannot come soon enough. To make the wait a little easier, here is everything we know about the upcoming season so far.
Who’s in it?
We can expect all the surviving cast to return. We also know that Priah Ferguson will be getting more screen time after Matt Duffer said: “I love Erica. [Priah] was just a local hire we made in Atlanta. Erica wasn’t even supposed to be in [season two] as much as she was. We fell in love with this girl. I thought she’s very GIF-able, if that’s a word.”
Jake Busey and Cary Elwes will also be joining the set. Bussey will play a morally corrupt news reporter called Bruce and Elwes will be playing the “classic, 80s-style slick” Mayor of Hawkins.
When is it out?
The news that the show had been renewed for a third season came in December last year, but there is no news of a release date yet.
The wait between season one and two was over a year and we know that filming didn’t start until fairly recently. It is therefore likely that we will have to wait until 2019 for season three.
“I mean, one of the things that’s annoying for fans is that it takes us a long time to do them,” David Harbour who plays Chief Hopper said. “Like, you probably won’t get [season three] until sometime in 2019.”
What’s the plot?
It has been confirmed that the third season will be set a year after the second. Matt Duffer told The Hollywood Reporter:
“Even if we wanted to hop into the action faster, we couldn’t. Our kids are ageing.
“We can only write and produce the show so fast. They’re going to be almost a year older by the time we start shooting season three. It provides certain challenges. You can’t start right after season two ended.
“It forces you to do a time jump. But what I like is that it makes you evolve the show.”
We’re not sure where exactly the show will go in terms of plot, although we are expecting there will be more focus on character development this season. Matt commented: “It’s not necessarily going to be bigger in scale. What I am really excited about is giving these characters an interesting journey to go on.”
Shawn Levy also commented that the show will introduce “forces of evil that are new”.
