The most popular show shooting in metro Atlanta, Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” will have to delay its fifth and final season due to the writers strike, the creators announced on Twitter.
Ross and Matt Duffer, who are the brains behind the entire series, posted Saturday: “Writing does not stop when filming begins. While we’re excited to start production with our amazing cast and crew, it is not possible during this strike. We hope a fair deal is reached soon so we can all get back to work. Until then ― over and out.”
The series was set to begin shooting at Atlanta’s EUE/Screen Gems and surrounding locales in metro Atlanta in June, but it’s unlikely the strike will end before July. Regardless, it may take up to a year for the Duffer brothers to finish the final season and it may not stream on Netflix until 2025, nearly a decade after the show’s launch.
Duffers here. Writing does not stop when filming begins. While we’re excited to start production with our amazing cast and crew, it is not possible during this strike. We hope a fair deal is reached soon so we can all get back to work. Until then -- over and out. #wgastrong
— stranger writers (@strangerwriters) May 6, 2023
“Stranger Things” is one of Netflix’s priciest series with 20 series regulars and eight expected episodes for the final season. The pandemic slowed up production of season four, which came out last year three years after season three. Many of the original kids on the show, who were barely teenagers when the show began, are now in their early 20s.
The series joins the Marvel movie “Blade” as projects that are not shooting in Atlanta until the strike ends. More films and TV shows are likely to be delayed.
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