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6 things we know are going to happen in 'Stranger Things' season 2
Netflix has announced that its hit series "Stranger Things" is returning for a second season in 2017. But fans still have a lot of open questions about where the plot will go.
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So who's coming back? What new thrills do show creators Matt and Ross Duffer have in store for us? And are we returning to the Upside Down?
The brothers have thrown out some hints.
Here's everything we know so far about season two.
Though the Duffers thought about starting the story a full decade after the events of season one, they decided to stay close to what we saw unfold.
"There’s still things that are unresolved," Ross Duffer told Entertainment Weekly.
Rejoice, people who loved "Stranger Things" for the same reason they loved "The Goonies"! The gang is back.
You can expect Will (Noah Schnapp), Mike (Finn Wolhard), Dustin (Gaten Matazarro), Joyce (Winona Ryder), Hopper (David Harbour), and many more from season one to return.
But it's still murky if Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) will reunite with the other kids.
“We don’t know about Eleven,” Ross Duffer told EW. “We leave that up in the air.”
Though the Duffers are staying mum on any specifics, EW reports that one episode in season two is titled "The Lost Brother," which might be an introduction to one of the new characters.
“There’s going to be a lot of new and interesting dynamics that we didn’t see in season one,” Matt Duffer told The Wrap.
It sounds like the Duffers have only scratched the surface of what could possibly be in this parallel universe.
“We obviously have this gate to another dimension, which is still very much open in the town of Hawkins," Ross Duffer told EW. "And a lot of questions there in terms of, if the Monster is dead, was it a singular monster? What else could be out there? We really don’t go in there much until they go in to find Will at the end. So we’ve opened up this doorway, and to us it’s exciting to talk about, like, what else is behind there? There’s a lot more mystery there to be solved.”
The show is going to stretch beyond the small Indiana town we inhabited in season one. In fact, right from the opening shot of season two.
“I will say the opening scene [of the premiere] does not take place in Hawkins,” Matt Duffer told EW.
Just as classic movies from "The Goonies" to "Stand By Me" were inspirations for the first season, the Duffers say sequels like "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," "Terminator 2," and "Aliens" are having a heavy influence on them as they develop the next batch of episodes.
“I know movie sequels get a lot of s--t, but the ones we look up to aspire to pivot and do something different,” Matt Duffer said.
Disclosure: Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Business Insider's parent company, Axel Springer, is a Netflix board member.
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