Now that Stranger Things Season 4 is officially finished fans of the show are officially turning their attention to the fifth and final season. It turns out that the writers for Stranger Things are also going to be turning their attention to the next season fairly soon.
It makes some sense that people would be wondering when work on Season 5 for the Netflix show is going to start production. After all, the wait between Season 3 and Season 4 was longer than fans first expected considering that the coronavirus pandemic put a freeze on that kind of work. Some of the latest comments behind the writers of the show indicate that there isn't going to be anywhere near the wait for the next installment.
The show's creators, the Duffer Brothers recently spoke to Collider about their plans for Stranger Things now that Season 4 is done. Ross Duffer said that they're going to be taking a "little vacation" in July and then they're going to be getting right back to work. If that wasn't specific enough for some people, he added that the writer's room is going to be getting started in the first week of August.
While fans are likely going to be happy to know that the people behind the show aren't taking a ton of time off between seasons, it does seem like there's going to be at least a little wait for Season 5 of Stranger Things. The realization that the scripts are not yet written at all, and won't start to get written until August puts all other production further behind that date. Even if the Duffer Brothers do have the final season mapped out, it doesn't appear that there's a word written down as far as what's actually going to happen or how in the scripts.
Of course, there is a chance that things could move quickly once the scripts get written. With ideas already being mapped out, the writers' room is just going to have to fill in the blanks. Still, it seems unlikely that Season 5 will start shooting until very late in 2022 or early in 2023.
Assuming everything moves ahead and there aren't any real bumps in the road, it seems that the earliest Stranger Things fans are going to get to see the final installment would be the winter of 2023 or the spring of 2024. Of course, considering what many feel like the viewership numbers are for Season 4 thanks to a summer release, it could even be Summer of 2024 before the series wraps up.
Stranger Things is currently available on Netflix.
Source: Collider