Stranger Things Season 5: All About the Highly-Anticipated Final Season

This post contains spoilers for Stranger Things 4, St. 2.

Stranger Things is officially coming to an end.

After the release of season 4, part 2 on July 1, 2022, the upcoming fifth season of the series will be the last. Series creators Matt and Ross Duffer announced the beginning of the end in February 2022 when they revealed that the “big” season 4 would be the penultimate season.

“Seven years ago we planned a complete story for Stranger Things. At the time, we predicted the story would last four to five seasons,” they wrote at the time. “It’s proving too big to be told in four, but – as you’ll soon see for yourself – we’re now hurtling toward our finale.”

While we still have plenty of time before the final season premieres, the cast and creators have already teased what’s in store, including a potential time jump.

Here’s everything we know about it Stranger Things season 5

Which is why the cast is coming back Stranger Things season 5?

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As Netflix announced that the series had production for the last season has begun, shared a photo of the cast, confirming who will be returning. The main returning cast includes Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Joe Keery and Maya Hawke.

The cast photo also includes Brett Gelman, Priah Ferguson, Cara Buono, Amybeth McNulty and Jamie Campbell Bower, who joined the cast in Season 4 as series villain Vecna.

Hawke told PEOPLE in June 2024 that filming the final season was “heartbreaking” for her, even though she was a relatively recent addition to the cast.

“I mean, this is the end of a really long journey. Even longer for some of my acting colleagues than for me. It’s really sentimental,” she said, adding, “We’ve been shooting for a long time, so it’s empowering [to bring] joy and daily finding and creating something new. It’s a really fun thing.”

Who is joining the cast Stranger Things season 5?

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In June 2023, Netflix announced that Linda Hamilton would join the cast Stranger Things for the fifth and final season.

Although Terminator star joins the ranks, back in August 2022. The Duffer Brothers revealed that they are doing their best not to add new characters in the new season in order to make sure to wrap up the stories for the current players.

“We are doing our best to resist [adding new characters] for Season 5,” Matt told Indiewire. “We’re trying not to do that so we can focus on the OG characters, I guess.” His twin Ross added, “We have a great cast of characters and actors, and every moment we spend with a new character, we’re taking time away from one of the other actors.”

What will Stranger Things season 5 be about?

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Although Netflix has yet to reveal the official plot for season 5, it will likely follow the Hawkins children as they try to defeat Vecna ​​once and for all now that the Upside Down has invaded their town.

The Duffer brothers have teased their ending for the show in previous interviews, and it sounds emotional. Speaking to The Wrap, Ross Duffer revealed that some Netflix executives actually cried when they announced their plans for Season 5.

“We have an outline for Season 5 and we pitched it to Netflix and they responded really well to it,” he said. “I mean, it was hard. That’s the end of the story. I saw directors cry that I’ve never seen cry before and it was wild.”

David Harbor said earlier Diversity that he knows how the series ends and “it’s quite touching and quite beautiful”.

Talking to TodayHoda Kotb and Jenna Bush in January 2023, Sink teased that while she didn’t know much about the upcoming season, she knew it was going to be “emotional.” She added: “No spoilers, just with how my character ended up in Season 4, I have no idea what’s going to happen. But I’ll be there.”

When will Stranger Things preparation for season 5?

From left: Gaten Matarazzo Joe Keery, Sadie Sink and Maya Hawke in season four Stranger Things. Courtesy of Netflix

The show’s creators previously revealed that Season 5 will feature a time jump to more accurately portray their young stars who have grown up before viewers’ eyes during the show’s run.

“It would be ideal if we shot [seasons 4 and 5] back-to-back, but there just wasn’t a feasible way to do it,” Ross told TVLine. “So these are all discussions we’ll have with our writers when we launch the room.”

It’s possible that the show could do a 4-year time jump to match the actors’ real-life ages with their characters (for example, Eleven is around 14 in the show, while Brown is 18 in real life).

Since Season 4 is set in 1986, that would place the final season in the early 90s, which would be new territory for a series set in the 80s.

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How long will it take Stranger Things season 5 be?

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In the Duffer brothers’ interview with The Wrap, they teased that season 5 won’t be as long as season 4, which runs about 13 hours.

“I don’t think it will be that long,” Matt Duffer said. “The last few will be more like Return of the Jedi in that … they go from the beginning. There will be less increase. And I think people will understand what I’m talking about when they see the end of this season. It’s like we’re going.”

When Stranger Things season 5 movie?

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On August 2, 2022, Stranger Things The writers room Twitter account teased that they are starting to write the script for season 5 as they tweeted “First day” with the photo white boards with the text “Stranger Things 5.”

During the Middle East Film & Comic Con in March 2023, Harbor teased that filming is expected to begin in the summer of 2023. “We’re going into season five. I’ve got a few more months to train. We start filming in June, though, and that will be the last season ,” he said, according to Collider.

In May 2023, PEOPLE confirmed the production of the series’ fifth and final season Stranger Things was postponed due to the ongoing writers’ strike. The Duffer Brothers — who serve as creators, executive producers and showrunners of the hit Netflix series — first announced the delay on Twitter.

“Writing doesn’t stop when recording starts,” wrote Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer on the official Twitter account for Stranger Things writers. “While we’re excited to begin production with our incredible cast and crew, that’s not possible during this strike. We hope to reach a fair deal soon so we can all get back to work. Until then — it’s over. #wgastrong .”

In January 2024, Netflix announced that production had officially begun as they shared a black and white photo of the entire cast.

Who directs Stranger Things season 5?

In June 2023, Netflix confirmed this 10 Cloverfield Lane‘with Dan Trachtenberg will direct an upcoming episode in the new season. Other details about the rest of the directors helming the upcoming episodes have not been released.

When will Stranger Things season 5 premiere?

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Netflix has not yet revealed the official release date of Season 5, but the show’s creators have confirmed that it will definitely be a shorter 3-year break between Seasons 3 and 4.

“The gap should be a lot shorter this time, due to the fact that we already have the initial drafts and we can’t imagine there will be another six months of forced hiatus,” the Duffer brothers said. Diversity.

Meanwhile, David Harbor shared a September 2022 update, joking Party tonight“You’ll see it in the next 15 years when it can be released after we record it.”

Will there be any? Stranger Things spinoffs?

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While season 5 is over Stranger Things, it’s not the end of the franchise. The franchise takes the stage with Stranger Things: The First Shadowwhich debuted in London’s West End in December.

In April 2023, Netflix announced that plans for an animated series based on the hit drama had been greenlit. The as-yet-untitled project will be produced by The Duffer Brothers through Upside Down Pictures, alongside Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen on behalf of 21 Laps, and Eric Robles through Flying Bark Productions.

The Duffer brothers previously teased the idea of ​​a potential spinoff in 2022. “There’s a version of that that’s being developed in parallel [to season 5]but they would never shoot in parallel,” Ross said Diversity. “I think we’ll actually start getting into it as soon as we finish and finish those visual effects, Matt and I will start getting into it.”

Matt added: “The reason we haven’t done anything is just because you don’t want to do it for the wrong reasons, and it was like, ‘Is this something I would want to do regardless of what it’s related to? Stranger Thingwith or without?’ And definitely. Even if we took Stranger Things title from that, I’m so, so excited about that. But it’s not… It’s going to be different than what everyone expects, including Netflix.”

Although they have been tight-lipped about the spinoff’s plot, Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard is already in on the secret after correctly guessing what the new series will be. “Finn Wolfhard, he didn’t spit, he just said, ‘I think this would be a cool spin-off,'” Ross recounted. “And we said: ‘How on earth…'”

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Stranger Things season 4 is currently streaming on Netflix.

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