After calling Netflix their residence for the final decade, Stranger Issues creators Matt and Ross Duffer formally jumped ship to Paramount final month with a massive deal encompassing function movies and TV exhibits. Whereas talking with Variety, the Duffers defined that the transfer had every thing to do with eager to launch a function movie in theaters.
“When Matt and I have been speaking about what we wish to do subsequent, it actually got here right down to we wished to do a film, particularly an authentic film — an enormous authentic movie,” Ross Duffer stated. “And theatrical is so necessary to us.” He added that they weren’t searching for a brand new deal elsewhere, however when Paramount approached them, they couldn’t flip it down. “It’s simply one thing we dreamed about since we have been little youngsters,” he stated.
Whereas their focus will likely be on authentic motion pictures, Matt Duffer stated they’re not against dealing with an present IP, however they’d reasonably it’s one thing they will enhance. “The market is so flooded with IP and typically it’s like IP that doesn’t imply something,” Matt Duffer stated. “I don’t perceive that. How is that carry any worth to something? I like IP that was botched. Somebody swung and missed. Then you’ve gotten a possibility to do it correctly.” I’d agree. Far too typically, executives really feel compelled to remake beloved classics that don’t want it. As Matt stated, a greater strategy is revisiting initiatives with sturdy concepts that fell quick in execution.
The pair will even develop TV initiatives for Paramount, which will likely be shorter exhibits with between 8 and 10 episodes. “I get fatigued watching 20-episode seasons,” Matt stated. “We didn’t develop up excited by any of that. We solely watched motion pictures. That’s the bizarre factor that we ended up in TV, as a result of we had nearly zero curiosity in tv.” The Duffers have one film underneath their belts, the 2015 psychological thriller Hidden, which stars Alexander Skarsgård, Andrea Riseborough, and Emily Alyn Lind.
The Duffer brothers nonetheless have a handful of initiatives at Netflix, together with the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, which will likely be launched in three elements, with quantity one on November 26, quantity two on Christmas Day, and the sequence finale on New Yr’s Eve. There’s additionally Stranger Things: Tales from ’85, an animated sequence, and a possible spin-off series that may have Twin Peaks vibes.
