Stranger Things will start filming again very soon
This comes from David Harbour, who also shared some thoughts on the strike
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It sounds like Stranger Things is about to start filming again, and not a moment too soon. The kids are really getting into “How long have you been 17?” “A while” territory, and that bowl cut on Noah Schnapp looks goofier by the second. Millie Bobby Brown has previously expressed her desire to get the show on the road (and get the fuck out of Hawkins), and she’s not the only one.
According to David Harbour—the face and mustache behind beloved Chief of Police and Russia escapee Jim Hopper—the clock is ticking on the show’s final season, and not just the spooky one Max keeps seeing in season four. “I mean, we got to film that last season of Stranger Things, don’t we?” Harbour said when asked about his post-strike plans at a recent gala for Feeding America (via Variety). “I got to be down there, like, in a couple of days. We got to get going—we’re late.”
While it’s unclear whether or not scripts for the season are completely finished, the team has definitely been hard at work. Per a tease of the very first scene that they revealed on Twitter/X earlier this week, Hawkins’ final chapter will open with a child’s voice “singing a familiar song.” Will this sweet melody be 2022's song of the summer, “Running Up That Hill” by Kate Bush? Or perhaps it will be Suzie singing “Never Ending Story” again? We’ll have to wait a while to find out.
Whenever the season does eventually wrap, Harbour hopes to take some key qualities of Hopper’s with him into whatever comes next. “Certainly his strength, his courage, his dedication. His powerful love for his family, and for right and wrong—his ideas of justice,” he shared.
Even without those lessons from Hopper, Harbour clearly has a keen eye towards combating unfair treatment in his own industry. “I think one of the beautiful things now is that we are taking care of people who are still training to become the stars of tomorrow—by giving them a living wage,” he said of advancements won in SAG-AFTRA’s tentative, strike-ending deal. “I think that’s fantastic.”
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They didn’t do themselves any favors by ending the season way they did. It means the story has to start up right after it, rather than setting it another year or three later and just have the actors all portray college-age kids instead of the other.
It’s getting harder to believe they’re still in high school than Demogorgons, Mind Flayers, Vecba, mind powers… COMBINED!I’m glad it’s the final season for that reason and it’s time to end the story.
I mean unless they want to pull an American Dad “Rapture’s Delight” on us, and cut to three years later in an apocalyptic wasteland and show Hopper and Eleven leading an open war against the demons of the Upside Down (which would be fucking awesome, albeit not very feasable).
I lost interest before the strike, now with the strike delay I probably won’t bother anymore.
That’s what they all say….You’ll be back, and you know it. 😀
Hawkins’ final chapter will open with a child’s voice “singing a familiar song.” It’s set in 1987, and I’m gonna guess that song is “Jackpot (Bruno’s Bop)“ by Bruce Willis.
After waiting so long, we’re gonna get rolled
I’ll never understand why Hopper is beloved. He’s an abusive piece of shit
But in a sort of Ralph Kramden/Archie Bunker way.
He…very much isn’t?
Well, actually he kind of is. He flies into rages, throws/wrecks things, and also manhandles the kids on a number of occasions.
Joe Kerry is already 31. He’s going to be join AARP before the final season is out.
look, if you believed the “kids” in the movie “grease” were in high school, you’ll believe this.
Well, there’s a reason it’s called ‘acting’…Also, in the middle ages, all roles were played by men, including the female characters. So things actually have progressed, at least from this perspective!