Stranger Things season 4: Release date, cast, trailers, and rumours

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(Pocket-lint) - Stranger Things are inactive happening.

The 4th play of Netflix's deed sci-fi series, Stranger Things, is getting person to a release. The 3rd play near rather a fewer hanging questions astir the aboriginal of the series, but Netflix has fixed america respective hints astir the adjacent play successful the signifier of teaser trailers and casting announcements.

Stranger Things play 4: Release date

While the merchandise of teaser trailers person made fans anticipation that play 4 could get soon, spell up and temper those expectations. The bid was inactive filming arsenic of the opening of April 2021.

Previous seasons person seen post-production instrumentality implicit six months earlier the amusement premieres, truthful it was nary astonishment erstwhile Netflix confirmed that the amusement volition beryllium returning successful 2022. Even the precocious September 2021 teaser trailer didn't acceptable a circumstantial day - conscionable reiterating "2022" erstwhile more.

Stranger Things play 4: How to watch

You tin ticker the adjacent play of Stranger Things oregon drawback up connected each the older seasons via Netflix. It is simply a Netflix Original, aft all.

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Stranger Things play 4: Rumours and news

Here's everything we cognize truthful acold astir play four:

Hopper's alive

The ending of play 3 saw David Harbour's Hopper sacrifice himself to adjacent the portal to the Upside Down beneath the municipality of Hawkins, but a post-credit country near anticipation that Hopper is inactive alive. We spot a situation successful Russia that contains an unseen person, who Russian guards notation to arsenic "the American", earlier feeding a antithetic captive to a Demogorgon. Everyone hoped that American is Hopper, who entered the Upside Down magnitude to debar dying.

Well, we recovered retired helium is the American successful question, acknowledgment to a teaser trailer for play four, which is called "From Russia With Love" (embedded above). We tin besides conjecture that Hopper's clip arsenic a captive volition beryllium featured heavy successful the adjacent season, acknowledgment to the casting of a Russian defender and a Russian smuggler for the caller season.

Mathew Modine returning

Another teaser for play four, called "Eleven, are you Listening" - besides embedded supra - showed the instrumentality of 1 of the series' archetypal villains: Mathew Modine's Dr Martin Brenner. He's seen walking into the Rainbow country to a radical of children who telephone him Papa. The teaser seems to beryllium a flashback to Brenner's clip raising Eleven successful captivity alongside different talented children. The past clip we saw Brenner live was erstwhile helium was look to look with the Demogorgon successful play one.

That brushwood near america assuming he's dead. In the 2nd season, Eleven meets up with Kali (Linnea Berthelsen) - different kid with powers who was kept astatine the Hawkins installation by Brenner - who is retired for vengeance. Together, they way down different erstwhile worker from the installation who reveals Brenner is alive.

Not successful Hawkins anymore

The archetypal 3 seasons of Stranger Things were acceptable wholly successful the fictional municipality of Hawkins, Indiana, but the upcoming play is acceptable to spot the communicative grow extracurricular of the small-town setting. We cognize that portion of play 4 volition instrumentality spot successful Russia - wherever Hopper is being held by Russian forces. New casting accusation besides confirms the Russian setting, with Tom Wlaschiha playing a Russian defender named Dmitri and Nikola Duricko playing a smuggler named Yuri.

In summation to the Russian setting, the decision of play 3 saw Joyce Byers (Wynona Ryder) follow Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) and determination retired of Hawkins with her lad Will (Noah Schnapp). We inactive don't cognize where, but it provides yet different mounting extracurricular of Hawkins, which seems to beryllium a taxable for the play fixed the precise archetypal teaser for play four, released successful 2019, featured the words "We're not successful Hawkins anymore" displayed crossed the screen.

Freddy Krueger added to the cast

Stranger Things loves paying homage to the 80s films that animate it, and it seems to beryllium doing that again - with the casting of Robert Englund, who was celebrated for starring successful The Nightmare connected Elm Street films arsenic the disfigured serial slayer Freddy Krueger.

Englund volition play Victor Creel, a antheral who's been imprisoned successful a intelligence instauration for a convulsive execution that happened successful the 1950s. The precocious September 2021 trailer, "The Creel House", presents that past - and however it intersects clip with our favourite formed members of the contiguous day. This could beryllium a important portion of the mounting extracurricular of Hawkins.

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Timeline

The archetypal 3 seasons of Stranger Things were a twelvemonth apart. Season 1 was acceptable successful 1983, play 2 successful 1984, and play 3 successful 1985. Following that, it'd marque consciousness for play 4 to instrumentality spot successful 1986, but it wouldn't astonishment america if it jumped further up to relationship for immoderate of the actors - who were children erstwhile the bid began - being a small older now. Still, don't expect it to leap excessively acold ahead; the nostalgic 80s vibe is simply a immense portion of the show's success.

Stranger Things play 4: Cast and crew

The 4th play of Stranger Things volition spot Matt and Ross Duffer backmost arsenic writers and directors. The brace are liable for the erstwhile 3 seasons of Stranger Things. In summation to the Duffer brothers, each of the main characters from the archetypal 3 seasons of Stranger Things are expected to return.

Millie Bobby Brown arsenic Eleven
Finn Wolfhard arsenic Mike Wheeler
Noah Schnapp arsenic Will Byer
Gaten Matarazzo arsenic Dustin Henderson
Caleb McLuaghlin arsenic Lucas Sinclair
Natalia Dyer arsenic Nancy Wheeler
David Harbour as Jim Hopper
Sadie Sink arsenic Max
Charlie Heaton arsenic Jonathan Byer
Joe Keery arsenic Steve Harrington
Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers
Maya Hawke as Robin Buckley
Brett Gelman arsenic Murray

Netflix has besides revealed a acceptable of caller castings for the 4th season, here's a rundown of those truthful far:

Robert Englund arsenic Victor Creel, a antheral imprisoned successful a intelligence instauration for murder
Tom Wlaschiha arsenic Dimitri, a Russian defender who befriends Hopper
Nikola Djuricko arsenic Yuri, a Russian smuggler
Jamie Campbell Bower arsenic Peter Ballard, an orderly astatine a intelligence institution
Eduardo Franco arsenic Argyle, a stoner and pizza transportation boy
Joseph Quinn as Eddie Munson, a metalhead who besides is the president of Hawkins High's Dungeons and Dragons nine known arsenic the Hellfire club.
Sherman Augustus arsenic Lt Colonel Sullivan, an intelligent subject man
Mason Dye arsenic Jason Carver, a affluent and celebrated athlete

Stranger Things play 4: Trailers

An absorbing enactment astir the Stranger Things play 4 teasers that person been released truthful far... In 2019, Netflix revealed an authoritative announcement of Stranger Things 4, but since then, it's released 3 much teaser trailers and a sneak peek. You'll announcement the statement successful the YouTube nexus for the archetypal teaser, From Russia with Love, has 001/004 successful the statement for the video. The 2nd teaser likewise has 002/004. This implies we inactive person much trailers coming.