The end of Stranger Things has been in sight for a long time. Series creators Ross and Matt Duffer revealed that they’ve known the show’s final moments for “six or seven years,” long before cameras rolled on the upcoming fifth and final season.
Speaking at Italy’s Lucca Comics and Games Festival alongside cast members Gaten Matarazzo, Noah Schnapp, Caleb McLaughlin, and Finn Wolfhard, the Duffer brothers reflected on how carefully they planned the conclusion to the hit Netflix series.
“Obviously, it’s stressful trying to figure out how you want to end the show,” said Ross Duffer. “Luckily, it was about six or seven years ago that we knew at least what the final scene is. We always knew what the last 40 minutes were going to be.”
The brothers shared that they studied some of television’s most acclaimed finales — including Six Feet Under, Friday Night Lights, and The Sopranos — to shape their own emotional ending for Stranger Things.
“You are having to let go in a way and say goodbye,” added Matt Duffer. “Once we read it through with [the actors], we realized how much it reflected our own experience. And hopefully that emotion that we felt writing it – and our actors felt performing it – is going to come through to the audience.”
After nearly a decade since its 2016 debut, Stranger Things will conclude with Season 5, releasing in three parts: Volume 1 on November 26, followed by Volume 2 on December 25, and Volume 3 on December 31.
Source: Gamesradar
