Netflix has officially announced it has ordered Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure, a live-action prequel series set in the 1950s, from Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer and showrunner Kate Trefry. Joe Wright is set to direct the first three episodes, and the series is set to debut in 2028, per Netflix’s Tudum.
The series is set in the 1950s, before Stranger Things and before the stage play Stranger Things: The First Shadow, per Netflix. The Duffers said in their statement, “It’s Stranger Things, but also thrillingly fresh, with a new setting, new heroes and villains, and new… actually, we’re not allowed to say any more. Now, on to casting.”
Netflix announced the series on Stranger Things Day. Jinny Howe, Netflix’s head of scripted series for the U.S. and Canada, said, “Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure takes us to the 1950s with new heroes and all the heart, mystery, and spectacle of the original series.”
Trefry is co-creator, showrunner, executive producer and writer. She is a longtime Stranger Things writer and wrote The First Shadow, per Netflix. The Duffers co-create and executive produce through Upside Down Pictures. Wright executive produces and directs the first three episodes, and production takes place in New Mexico.
Shawn Levy and his 21 Laps, Paul Dichter, Shelley Meals, Andrea Sperling and Pavlina Hatoupis also executive produce.
“The Duffer Brothers gave me my first paying job in Hollywood, and it has been a joy and a fever dream ever since,” Trefry said. “There are so many more mysteries to explore. Welcome to Other Worlds.”
Levy said, “With Other Worlds, the Duffer Brothers and Kate Trefry craft a new ensemble and adventure that is imbued with the DNA of our flagship series while exploring a new era, setting and all-new characters, themes and mythology — the seeds of which may have been planted in Hawkins, but now venture into other worlds of spectacle, action and emotion.”
The animated series Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85 also follows the Hawkins group in the winter of 1985. Stranger Things: The First Shadow runs at the Phoenix Theatre in London’s West End through Dec. 27 and at the Marquis Theater on Broadway through Jan. 3, 2027.
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