“Stranger Issues” Season 5 is a good distance off (even perhaps as distant as 2026) as a result of ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike.
However to melt the blow, Netflix has dropped a video preview of the upcoming stage play “Stranger Issues: The First Shadow,” which begins performances this month in London.
“We have been in the course of breaking Season Four with our writers, and we began going, ‘OK, effectively, there’s positively extra story to inform right here,’” says Ross Duffer, who co-created the sci-fi sequence together with his brother, Matt, within the featurette. “We needed to inform an authentic story set within the ‘Stranger Issues’ universe.”
The all-new story, written by sequence author Kate Trefry, shall be a prequel — so don’t come searching for Mike, Will, Dustin, Lucas or Eleven — partly about younger Hopper and Joyce, performed on the streaming present by David Harbour and Winona Ryder, respectively.
These roles shall be taken on on the Phoenix Theatre by Oscar Lloyd and Isabella Pappas. Broadway followers additionally will acknowledge Patrick Vaill, who performed Judd Fry within the current revival of “Oklahoma!,” because the sinister Dr. Brenner.
The point of interest of “First Shadow,” nevertheless, is claimed to be Henry Creel, a okay a Topic 001 and (spoiler alert) the Upside Down monster generally known as Vecna in Season 4.
It’s 1959, and Henry (Louis McCartney) strikes to Hawkins, Ind. together with his household, and begins up a flirtation with a brand new character named Patty Newby (Ella Karuna Williams). Henry quickly discovers, after all, that the tiny city is a darkish and supernatural place.
“The First Shadow” is directed by Stephen Daldry, whose “Billy Elliot: The Musical” gained the Tony Award for Greatest Musical in 2009. And it’s produced, with Netflix, by Sonia Friedman, whose ongoing “Harry Potter and the Cursed Little one” is minimize from the identical pop cultural fabric.
Like “Cursed Little one,” the play guarantees to be stuffed with spectacle.
“There are a number of monsters,” says visible results artist Jamie Harrison within the clip. “There are a number of blood and guts results. There are a number of vanishes and appearances, and many different issues that I’m not going to inform you about now as a result of I don’t need to spoil the shock.”
“Stranger Issues: The First Shadow” begins performances Nov. 17 on the Phoenix Theatre in London, with a gap night time set for Dec. 14.