(Los Angeles) The Upside Down Enthusiasts Rejoice: A Spin-Off Series Stranger Thingsa smash hit from Netflix, is being developed by its creators, the Duffer Brothers, the platform announced on Wednesday.
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The saga, one of the most watched on Netflix, mixes science fiction, horror and teenage adventures in a small American town of the 1980s, where a group of young people find themselves struggling with monsters that have arisen from a parallel dimension.
Its recently aired fourth season topped the platform’s rankings for English-language works, which counts the number of hours watched within 28 days of a series’ release.
Season 4 of Stranger Things already has 1.15 billion hours on the clock, a figure that should increase further since the last episode was only released last week.
In the world, only the South Korean series Squid Game managed to do better.
The brothers Matt and Ross Duffer, creators and directors of the series, had indicated that the plot of Stranger Things would definitely be wrapped up in a fifth season. But they had also piqued the curiosity of fans by writing in an open letter that “many other exciting stories have yet to be told in the world of Stranger Things “.
On Wednesday, Netflix confirmed that a “spin-off series Stranger Things based on an original idea of the Duffer brothers” was being developed.
The dark and strange universe will also be the subject of a theatrical adaptation, with Stephen Daldry (The Crown) to the staging.
The company founded for the occasion by the Duffer brothers, Upside Down Pictures, also has in its boxes a live action adaptation project of the famous Japanese manga Death Noteand another from the novel The Talismanco-written in the 1980s by Stephen King and Peter Straub.
The news of the deal between Netflix and the Duffer brothers comes as the platform is under pressure from financial markets after losing subscribers for the first time this year after a long period of uninterrupted growth.