Matt and Ross Duffer, known professionally together as the Duffer Brothers, released their show Stranger Things on Netflix on July 15, 2016, and the rest, as they say, is history. The series became one of Netflix’s flagship shows, and its immense popularity contributed to the streaming platform’s global success. Season 5, which will also be the final chapter of the show, has wrapped filming and is slated to come out sometime in 2025. It was previously revealed that the season will have eight episodes in total. And now, Ross Duffer has disclosed that each of those episodes would be like a “blockbuster” movie.
Duffer Bros claim Stranger Things Season 5 would be ‘intense’ and ‘epic’
The Duffer Brothers recently made an appearance at the annual Next on Netflix event, where previews from movies and TV shows from the service’s 2025 slate were live-streamed worldwide. The siblings gave the audience a new behind-the-scenes teaser for Stranger Things Season 5 and spoke on the future of the show and what fans could expect.
“We spent a full year filming this season,” Ross Duffer said. “By the end, we had captured over 650 hours of footage. So, needless to say, this is our biggest and most ambitious season yet. It’s like eight blockbuster movies. It’s pretty, pretty insane,” he added. (via Entertainment Weekly)
Matt Duffer promised that Season 5 would be “big and epic.” “There’s no time for a ramp-up. It’s going to be intense from beginning to end,” he added.
This is not the first time that the episodes of Stranger Things will be significantly longer than most shows on networks and streaming platforms. For instance, Season 4 Episode 7 has a runtime of around one hour 40 minutes, whereas the finale of that season is approximately two hours and 22 minutes long. Reflecting on the lengths of those episodes, Ross Duffer said in 2022, “They truly are movies, at least in terms of length.” Meanwhile, Matt Duffer called the Season 4 finale “a long movie.”
Notably, at this year’s Next on Netflix, the brothers also spoke about the Stranger Things franchise. “There are more Stranger Things stories to tell and in the works,” Matt Duffer stated, adding, “It’s a bit early at this point to talk about them, but we’re deeply involved in every one.”
Additionally, the brothers teased two other projects they were developing for the service: The Boroughs and Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen.