Duffer Brothers Say ‘Stranger Things’ Spin-Off Would Be ‘1000% Different’
Written by SOURCE on July 6, 2022
Fresh off the release of the Volume 2 episodes of Stranger Things 4, creators Matt and Ross Duffer have shared more details about a potential spin-off of the hit Netflix series.
During an appearance on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast, the Duffer Brothers revealed that the spin-off series will be “1000% different” from Stranger Things.
“I’ve read these rumors that there’s gonna be an Eleven spinoff, that there’s gonna be a Steve and Dustin spinoff or that it’s another number,” the creators teased. “That’s not interesting to me because we’ve done all that. We’ve spent I don’t know how many hours exploring all of that. So it’s very different.”
The Duffer Brothers added, “The most important connective tissue I would say is the storytelling sensibility of it. There is story that connects to the Stranger Things world, but it really is more about how we’re telling that story.”
Matt Duffer went on to reveal that the duo is looking to “pass the baton” to a new creative team.
“The idea, ultimately, is to pass the baton to someone else, someone who’s hopefully really talented and passionate,” he explained. “Even the idea of Ross and I, say, doing a pilot and leaving it, it just feels silly to me. You really need to be there from the beginning to end. I think we need to find a partner to help us with that.”
It isn’t the first time Matt and Ross have discussed a possible spin-off. Back in June, the Duffer brothers spoke with Deadline about the idea, admitting that any future series would be totally different from Stranger Things.
“The reason we haven’t done anything is just because you don’t want to be doing it for the wrong reasons, and it was just like, ‘Is this something I would want to make regardless of it being related to Stranger Things or not?’,” Matt shared. “Even if we took the Stranger Things title off of it, I’m so, so excited about it. But it is not… It’s going to be different than what anyone is expecting, including Netflix.”
