The Duffer Brothers are undeniably profitable within the streaming sphere due to Stranger Issues, which can wrap with the fifth and closing season on the very finish of the 2025 TV schedule. That stated, Matt and Ross Duffer are reportedly able to spend a while within the Rightside Up after a decade coping with the Upside Down, and their new Netflix challenge sounds much more grounded than what they’ve written for Hawkins, Indiana within the ’80s.
That stated, I am nonetheless focused on extra particulars concerning the animated Stranger Issues spinoff collection that was introduced years in the past. However first issues first!
The Duffer Brothers’ Subsequent Challenge
Matt and Russ Duffer will probably be engaged on a ebook adaptation this time round, with Deadline reporting that they are growing a novel known as The Savage, Noble Dying of Babs Dionne for viewers with a Netflix subscription. Writer Ron Currie and his writing accomplice, Joshua Mohr, are anticipated to put in writing the crime thriller in addition to function govt producers. The Duffers are additionally slated to govt produce, together with Hilary Leavitt by way of the brothers’ Upside Down Footage manufacturing firm.
In case you’ve by no means heard of the ebook however thought “Babs Dionne” seems like an incredible mobster title, you are not far off. The title character is a Franco-American crime matriarch based mostly out of a small city in Maine. Whereas she’s a loving grandmother, she additionally has management over the drug commerce… till a drug kingpin discovers that he is not dominating the enterprise within the higher northeast, and sends any person who in all probability means dangerous information for Babs.
Different characters embody the lieutenants who work for Babs; her longtime pals; her eldest daughter Lori, who struggles with habit after her time within the Marines; The Man, who is shipped by the kingpin; and Sis, her youngest daughter who has gone lacking.
I personally have not learn the ebook, however I really feel assured guessing that Sis is not going to go lacking as a result of she was chased into an Upside Down dimension by a monster a la Will Byers in Stranger Issues! This technically is not the Duffer Brothers’ first challenge outdoors of the Stranger Issues franchise in recent times, as they produced The Boroughs and One thing Very Unhealthy Is Going To Occur, each for Netflix with anticipated premieres in 2026. The Savage, Noble Dying of Babs Dionne is barely within the growth stage at this level, so there aren’t any ensures that it’ll grow to be a collection.
Now, as a lover of crime dramas, The Savage, Noble Dying of Babs Dionne truly sounds proper up my alley, however I nonetheless affiliate The Duffer Brothers with Stranger Issues, and this growth jogged my memory of one other present within the franchise that I might love some extra data on.
What’s Up With The Animated Collection?
Information of a Stranger Issues animated TV present first broke again in 2023, at which level followers had been already almost a 12 months into the anticipate Season 5. On the time, the challenge was stated to be an grownup animated collection set throughout the world of Stranger Issues, with The Duffer Brothers and longtime collaborator Shawn Levy on board as govt producers. Matt and Ross Duffer expressed in a joint assertion that they’d “at all times dreamed of an animated Stranger Issues within the vein of the Saturday morning cartoons that we grew up loving, and to see this dream realized has been completely thrilling.”
Two years later, and Netflix has not less than revealed that the title will probably be Stranger Issues: Tales From ’85. Showrunner Eric Robles reportedly dropped some particulars and a sneak peek on the Annecy Movie Pageant in early June. Per Deadline, Robles stated that his inspiration for Tales From ’85 “all went again to The Actual Ghostbusters,” which he described as “foolish however had a handful of darkish, creepy episodes.” The logline from Netflix reads:
Welcome again to Hawkins within the stark winter of 1985, the place the unique characters should battle new monsters and unravel a mystical thriller terrorizing their city in Stranger Issues: Tales From ’85, an epic new animated collection
That confirms that the present will probably be set within the colder months between the tip of Season 2 in late 1984 and the start of Season 3 in summer season 1985. Hopefully the point out of “the unique characters” means acquainted – albeit animated – faces, however the promise of recent monsters and a terrifying thriller leads me to suspect that the tales will not truly be canon to the live-action present. That does not imply it might’t be enjoyable, although!
A giant query I’ve at this level is whether or not this present is aimed toward adults, as was anticipated again in 2023 when the animated offshoot was first introduced, or aimed toward youngsters. There’s loads of time to invest earlier than Stranger Issues Season 5 arrives, as the primary of three volumes releases on November 26. The second will probably be on December 25, and the third on December 31.
Splitting the season into three volumes that launch on or close to main holidays within the U.S. was a divisive selection, however I am simply excited that the streamer is releasing the episodes at 8 p.m. ET relatively than 12 a.m. PT as common, which at all times means 3 a.m. in my time zone. Within the meantime, followers can at all times rewatch the primary 4 seasons streaming on Netflix and cross their fingers for a glimpse of the animated collection.