Bregxit said:

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Man you guys confused me on the Steve/Wyatt jokes. I had to go look it up to verify it is two different actors.

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Swarely said:

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Apparently Millie Brown's birthday is tomorrow. She turns 18. Is season 5 going to be her in college?

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Not where I saw that post going.

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YNWA_AG said:

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Trailer tomorrow

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I Have Spoken said:

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YNWA_AG said:

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Trailer tomorrow

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Call your shot on trailer music. 86 is the year for this one?

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I Have Spoken said:

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YNWA_AG said:

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Trailer tomorrow

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Call your shot on trailer music. 86 is the year for this one?

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Arrakis ecologist said:

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On May 14, the star attended Netflix's Stranger Things Season 4 premiere in New York City with her boyfriend Jake Bongiovi. Brown walked down the red carpet in her long golden blonde locks and stunned in a Louis Vuitton white slit dress with a black sheer sleeve attached to the top, creating a one-shoulder look. Opting for a color-coordinated look, Bongiovi wore a black suit and a white turtle neck.
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#StrangerThings4 Vol. 1. will release with 7 episodes on May 27.#StrangerThings4 Vol. 2 will release with the final 2 episodes on July 1. pic.twitter.com/saG1Zuvsac

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) May 20, 2022

brenner: what have you done?
us: we’ve given you the first 8 min of season 4 AND the episode split announce. ⬇️

ST4 Vol. 1. Seven Episodes. May 27th. ST4 Vol. 2. Two Episodes. July 1st. pic.twitter.com/2svkoRAoh1

— Stranger Things (@Stranger_Things) May 20, 2022

YNWA_AG said:

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the last 2 episodes are close to 4 hours total at least

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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YNWA_AG said:

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the last 2 episodes are close to 4 hours total at least

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That confirmed?

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One of the first things you notice about the creators of "Stranger Things," Matt and Ross Duffer, is that they definitely do the twin thing.

They finish each other's sentences. They switch roles seamlessly, communicate without words. At times, they can seem to share a brain "that weird telepathic relationship," as Winona Ryder, a star of the series, described it because they rarely seem to disagree, at least not vocally. When they write, they do it facing each other and in a shared Google Doc. To me, this seems insane. M. Night Shyamalan, an early mentor and collaborator, affectionately described the phenomenon as like watching a "two-headed creative monster."
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Judging by the way they worked together here in late March, having two heads was mostly a boon as the deadlines cascaded for Season 4. The new season, the first half of which premieres on May 27 on Netflix after a three-year wait, still needed a lot of work in postproduction. Netflix hadn't yet announced that it had been hemorrhaging subscribers all quarter. But there was a sense in the editing suite that a lot was riding on this season of the sci-fi horror drama, which has earned seven Emmys since it debuted in 2016.
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With competing streamers gaining ground, it was safe to say that Netflix needed a giant hit. And "Stranger Things," as Ted Sarandos, co-chief executive of Netflix, told me last month, is "probably our biggest, most enduring content brand that we've created." This was the same day the company lost about $50 billion of its market value.

During the two days I observed them, the Duffers, who continue to direct, write and oversee "Stranger Things," had enough on their plates just getting things manageable. The pandemic had already caused significant delays, and the new season is five hours longer than any previous one. That was the main reason they had decided to release it in two chunks, Ross said. There was just so much material to get through. Demogorgons needed animating. Run times needed tightening.

"How long is the episode right now?" Ross asked their editor Dean Zimmerman about the episode on the screen. Zimmerman glanced my way.

"You want me to say it out loud?" he asked.

"Yeah."

"Two and a half hours."

With episodes like short movies (three of the first four are 75 minutes or more), one might worry that the Duffers have succumbed to excess. For now, they seem content to let the fans decide; Netflix has proved willing to support their expanding vision. Meanwhile, the tone is decidedly shifting this season (think "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Hellraiser"), and its young cast has been shaving for at least a few years. (Want to feel old? Caleb McLaughlin and Sadie Sink are 20.) Plenty can change in three years, including viewer attention. Will fans still flock to "Stranger Things"?
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It may help that the Duffers were raised far away from Hollywood. They were born in 1984 the year after the timeline of "Stranger Things" begins and grew up in a middle-class neighborhood in Durham. Their father, Allen Duffer, a film buff who worked in a local research lab, said the boys had been movie fanatics since they were toddlers.

"I was always surprised at their attention span, even at a young age," he said. "Dumbo" was an early favorite. Eventually, their tastes expanded to Steven Spielberg and Tim Burton. Friday movie night was sacrosanct, and Allen took his sons to see every new release in theaters that he could.

Starting around the fourth grade, the brothers began making movies with Smith, whose parents had a VHS camcorder. Their first was based on the fantasy card game Magic: The Gathering. In one scene, a character shoots another with a Nerf bow-and-arrow. In another, a boy in a Freddy Krueger mask seasons a severed hand with salt. "It was all improvised," Ross explained. The music "was mostly Danny Elfman playing out of a boom box."
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Their father laughed when he recalled those early movies. "You know, they were kind of painful to watch because they would go on forever mostly it was kids running around fighting each other with swords," he said. But "then the process matured over time." The technology got better too. With digital camcorders and iMacs, they were able to edit and add music without a boom box.

In 2011, just four years out of film school at Chapman University, in Orange County, Calif., the brothers sold a script to Warner Bros. for a post-apocalyptic thriller called "Hidden." Suddenly the Duffers had a real Hollywood budget. "It was this insane situation," Matt said. "Ross and I are going: 'Oh, this is the dream. We did it.'"

The film, about a family trapped underground while shadowy creatures roam the surface, establishes themes familiar to any "Stranger Things" fan: a precocious child, government conspiracies, an exploding rat. What the completed film didn't have, the studio decided, was commercial viability. It went straight to video in 2015.

Matt and Ross thought their short career was over. But then the script made its way to Shyamalan, who was impressed and hired them to write for the Fox puzzle-box drama "Wayward Pines." His confidence helped get them back on track. "Stranger Things" soon followed.
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Early criticism of "Stranger Things" argued that it was little more than '80s karaoke a greatest-hits collection that charms but lacks the genius of original art. Matt and Ross have never been coy about their influences their original pitch described the show "as if Steven Spielberg was directing a long lost Stephen King novel," Ross said. (Completing the circle, the Duffers are expected to join Spielberg as executive producers of the Netflix series "The Talisman," a long-awaited adaptation of the novel co-written by King.)
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Season 4 will be the show's second-to-last, which means it has to get the characters and themes well positioned for the denouement. The long Covid delay, which arrived several weeks into shooting, gave the Duffers and their writers plenty of time to figure out where they wanted Season 5 to end.
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Texaggie7nine said:

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Eleven is Darth Vader!!!

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Texaggie7nine said:

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Eleven is Darth Vader!!!

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