As our calendars draw closer to the Stranger Things season 4 (Part 2) release date, Netflix has dropped a chill-inducing trailer cut together with Kate Bushโs renewed hit โRunning Up That Hill.โ
In case it wasnโt painfully clear the hit series is currently living out its Empire Strikes Back moment โ right down to Millie Bobby Brownโs Eleven prematurely abandoning training to help out her friends; plus the plot twist reveal surrounding the true identity of Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) โ the footage previewed today should serve as a fitting reminder.
To recap, the first volume of Stranger Things season 4 concluded on something of a down note. While Joyce (Winona Ryder) and Murray (Brett Gelman) have managed to save Hopper (David Harbour) from being sacrificed to the Demogorgon over in Russia, thousands of miles away in Hawkins, the rescue mission to retrieve Steve (Joe Keery) didnโt go as smoothly as intended. Right as the senior half of Team Eleven escaped the Upside Down into Eddieโs trailer, Nancy (Natalie Dyer) falls under the psychic possession of Vecna.
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โItโs over,โ Jamie Campbell Bowerโs Vecna can be heard saying in the Stranger Things season 4 (Part 2) trailer.
โNow I just want you to watch. Your friends have lost.โ
โI have a terrible feeling,โ says Maya Hawkeโs Robin.
โIt might not work out for us this time.โ
โWe kind of jokingly call it our Game of Thrones season because itโs so spread out, so I think thatโs whatโs unique or most unique about the season,โ series co-creator Matt Duffer explained during Deadlineโs Contenders Television Panel (via Collider).
โWe didnโt know how big the season was going to get, and we didnโt even realise until we were about halfway through, just in terms of how much story that we wanted to tell this season.โ
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The Duffer Brothers have recently revealed the next instalment after Part 2 โ Stranger Things season 5 โ will represent the showโs very last.
โSeven years ago, we planned out the complete story arc for Stranger Things,โ The Duffer Brothers explained in an open letter to fans published last month.
โAt the time, we predicted the story would last four to five seasons. It proved too large to tell in four but โ as youโll see for yourselves โ we are now hurtling toward our finaleโฆ Itโs been a little while.โ
โWith nine scripts, over eight hundred pages, almost two years of filming, thousands of visual effects shots and a runtime nearly twice the length of any previous season, Stranger Things 4 was the most challenging season yet, but also the most rewarding one.โ
โEveryone involved is incredibly proud of the results, and we canโt wait to share it with youโ
In addition to the names already mentioned, Part 2 will hail the return of Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield, Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler, Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson, Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair, Priah Ferguson as Erica Sinclair, Noah Schnapp as Will Byers, Charlie Heaton as Jonathan Byers, plus Joseph Quinn as Eddie Munson, Eduardo Franco as Argyle, Sherman Augustus as Lt. Colonel Sullivan, Mason Dye as Jason Carver, Matthew Modine as Martin Brenner, Paul Reiser as Sam Owens, and more.
Netflixโs Stranger Things season 4 (Part 2) has a confirmed release date of July 1st โ check out the trailer above.
