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Stranger Things Season 5 has reached the halfway point of production, but there is still time on Vecna’s creepy clock before the final season arrives. Ross Duffer, who has been updating his Instagram followers on Season 5’s progress filming, posted a picture of cast and crew with the caption “Week…

Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer, who are known as the Duffer Brothers, are shooting down a theory about the series finale. After five seasons of fighting demons from The Upside-Down, the Netflix sci-fi series is coming to an end. The show’s fifth and final season was delayed due to the…

Editor's note: Deadline's It Starts on the Page features 10 standout drama series scripts in 2023 Emmy contention. It showcases the critical role writer's work plays in a show's success. All materials (the script and writers intro) were submitted before the WGA strike began on May 2. In the…

Stranger Things will be concluding after five seasons on Netflix, but the universe is expanding. An untitled animated series has been greenlit at Netflix, with Flying Bark Productions and executive producer Eric Robles developing. The Duffer Brothers fan-favorite series premiered in 2016 starring…

Matt and Ross Duffer took inspiration for their massively popular Stranger Things from conspiracy theories about the Montauk Project, an alleged operation run by the U.S. government to run experiments on children that included mind control and time travel, for the purposes of psychological warfare. The…

Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer have expanded on what fans can expect from the fifth and final season of their ’80s-set Netflix phenomenon. The twin filmmakers were asked, during a Sunday night panel at the streamer’s Tudum Theater in Los Angeles, if there are new ’80s pop culture…

EXCLUSIVE: Halia Abdel-Meguid has been tapped to write and executive produce Death Note, a live-action series adaptation of the Japanese manga and anime series originally written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, which is in the works at Netflix. As revealed by Deadline in July, Death Note…

On the morning they opened the writers room for the fifth and final season of the Netflix series Stranger Things, Emmy-nominated creators Matt & Ross Duffer teamed with prosthetics designer Barrie Gower to relive for Deadline Contenders the events of Season 4. Stranger Things got 13 Emmy nominations for a season that…

EXCLUSIVE: Following the record-breaking release of the two final episodes of Stranger Things' Season 4, creators Matt & Ross Duffer have formed Upside Down Pictures and recommitted to Netflix with several new projects. To run Upside Down, they've hired Hilary Leavitt, a vet of BBC America and MRC who most recently…

EXCLUSIVE, SPOILERS ABOUND! If you haven’t watched the final two episodes that wrap Season 4 of Stranger Things on Netflix, you won’t want to read further until you’ve done so. The battle between Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) and Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) claimed a few beloved characters, wrecked the town of Hawkins…

The Duffer Brothers on Wednesday talked about the evolution of Stranger Things in season 4 and how it went from a TV version of The Goonies in previous years to the small-screen horror show inspired by A Nightmare on Elm Street and Hellraiser. “The kids are now not kids anymore. They are in high school,” explained…

Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer know that it's been a long wait for the fourth season of Netflix's smash hit, but they promise an even greater payoff with the new season's massively expanded scope and collective running time greater than any of the previous installments. "We kind of jokingly call it our G…