What we know about the 'Stranger Things' spinoff — plus the one cast member who guessed it correctly
- - What we know about the 'Stranger Things' spinoff — plus the one cast member who guessed it correctly
Neia BalaoDecember 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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For the Duffer brothers, Stranger Things marks the end of an era… sort of. Though the hit Netflix series is coming to an end after nine years and five seasons, fans won’t be saying goodbye to the Stranger Things universe for good. In fact, Ross and Matt Duffer have practically said as much: There’s a Stranger Things spinoff in the works.
The Duffers have remained tight-lipped when it comes to sharing details about the spinoff, though they have shared some insight into what fans may be able to expect — and a Stranger Things star has even weighed in on the discourse.
Will the same cast be involved? And what exactly have the Duffer brothers said about it? Yahoo is rounding up everything we know about the Stranger Things spinoff (so far), below.
Will the Stranger Things cast return for the spinoff?
Unfortunately, Stranger Things fans shouldn’t expect to see any familiar faces in the spinoff series. Matt Duffer told Screenrant of the forthcoming project: “It relates in some ways, but it really is a completely different story and a completely different location with completely different actors and characters. So it's its own. It’s really its own entity.”
What else do we know about the spinoff?
While it won’t follow the Hawkins gang we’ve come to know and love, the Stranger Things spinoff, Matt Duffer previously told Variety, will still be part of the show’s brand and style of storytelling, and will revolve around “kids, adventures, sci-fi/fantasy, rather than increasingly expand what could become an insanely convoluted mythology.”
“You’re starting with new characters — it’s like clean slate,” he told the outlet. “You’re not tied up into any knots. There’s something refreshing about it.”
The Duffers will be involved in “helping shepherd it along,” per Variety, but given their new Paramount deal, they won’t serve as showrunners of the spinoff.
Has the Stranger Things cast said anything about it?
So far, Finn Wolfhard, who plays Mike Wheeler, is the only member of the Stranger Things cast to correctly guess what the spinoff may revolve around.
“Nobody — not Netflix, not any of the producers, not any of the directors, not any of the actors — nobody else has figured out what the spinoff is. Finn figured [it] out, which is pretty remarkable,” Ross Duffer told Variety. “We’ve mind-melded with this kid a bit.”
While chatting with Variety, Wolfhard speculated about what the forthcoming Stranger Things spinoff could be about, and compared it to another beloved cult series.
“Like David Lynch’s Twin Peaks,” he told the outlet. “Sort of an anthology and different tones but similar universe or same universe. I think set in different places and all tied together through this mythology of the Upside Down. Don’t even talk about Hawkins. Don’t have any mention of our characters. They were toying around with ideas in case Netflix wanted them. I’m sure they do, and I’m sure it will happen, but there’s nothing official. I think the coolest way, the way that I would do it, there has to be labs everywhere. If there was one in Hawkins, there’s one in Russia. Where else could they be?”
The Stranger Things spinoff was confirmed in November 2025 when Matt Duffer told Deadline, “We are moving forward with it. Netflix, they finally know what it is. We held it. They were so frustrated. We just would not tell them. Finn guessed what it was. So he was the only one who knew.”
Source: “AOL Entertainment”
