‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 Will Feature A Necessary Change Due To Cast Ages

Games ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 Will Feature A Necessary Change Due To Cast Ages Paul Tassi Senior Contributor Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. Jun 14, 2022, 08:42am EDT | Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin STRANGER THINGS.

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[+] STRANGER THINGS. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2022 Courtesy of Netflix While we still have two more episodes of season 4 of Stranger Things to go, arriving July 1, talk is already turning to the final season of the series, season 5, which will no doubt be even more of a spectacle.

One issue the show has had with its gaps between seasons, especially the very long one between season 3 and 4 due to COVID, is that its young cast has grown up very fast. As such, the Duffer Brothers have told TVLine that season 5 is almost certainly going to have a time jump forward. “I’m sure we will do a time jump,” said Ross Duffer.

“Ideally, we’d have shot [Seasons 4 and 5] back to back, but there was just no feasible way to do that. ” We have this current split within season 4 because they couldn’t quite finish production on the final, VFX-filled episode for one giant binge drop, so it’s not shocking they could also not film an entirely new season back to back with season 4. How far of a time jump remains unclear.

What’s happening in Hawkins does seem somewhat urgent, so there would have to be some sort of explanation as to why everything just…stopped for a few years, if that’s how long they’re planning. But at a certain point, yes, they do have to catch up to the fact that the kids who started out starring in the series are now six years older, given that we are a far cry from 2016 when the show originally aired. The current ages of the main cast members show how much they’ve aged out of the original set-up.

Granted, this is Hollywood and older actors play younger all the time, but still: BROOKLYN, NEW YORK – MAY 14: (L-R) David Harbour, Caleb Mclaughlin, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn . . .

[+] Wolfhard, Sadie Sink, Noah Schnapp, Gaten Matarazzo, and Priah Ferguson attends Netflix’s “Stranger Things” Season 4 New York Premiere at Netflix Brooklyn on May 14, 2022 in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images) Getty Images MORE FOR YOU ‘Demon Slayer’ Season 2 Finally Has An Actual 2021 Release Date Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’ Season 2 Not A Sure Thing, Says Director ‘Genshin Impact’ Still Refuses To Increase Anniversary Rewards, Despite Fan Outcry Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler (age 19) Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven (age 18) Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson (age 19) Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair (age 20) Noah Schnapp as Will Byers (age 17) Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield (age 20) Joe Keery as Steve Harrington (age 30) Natalia Dyer as Nancy Wheeler (age 27) Charlie Heaton as Jonathan Byers (age 28) Maya Hawke as Robin Buckley (age 23) In short, you have the “one year out of high school” kids that are 30 or close to it, and the young cast that’s meant to be in early high school could all easily be in college at this point. Again, not all that wild for Hollywood, but most of these kids really look their age now.

Does that mean a college-based season of Stranger Things is coming for season 5? I would kind of doubt that, given that there’s probably too much chaos to weave a significant amount of college-based storylines in there. My guess is they may skip ahead to high school graduation, which would be a couple of years, but we just don’t know yet. We also don’t know any dates for Stranger Things season 5.

In the same interview the Duffer Brothers don’t even seem to know yet when season 5 will begin filming, and the show is clearly not on a regimented “every year a new season” schedule at this point. The earliest it seems like Stranger Things season 5 would get here is probably late 2023, but we’ll have to see. Follow me on Twitter , YouTube , Facebook and Instagram .

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