Netflix exec hints at Stranger Things “spinoffs” in the works

It was bound to happen at some point. Just like with Star Trek, The Walking Dead and so many other beloved series, Netflix’s Stranger Things may be the next show to get the spinoff treatment.

This is according to Deadline, which reported on comments made by Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos  during a presentation at this year’s Code Conference. “Franchises are good, but what you want are hits,” Sarandos told the Beverly Hills audience. He called Stranger Things “a franchise being born,” and hinted at “spinoffs.”

Netflix is getting ready to premiere Stranger Things 4 in 2022. A release date for the series was not revealed at their recent Tudum event over the weekend, but they did reveal a new teaser about a new character, Victor Creel.

Eleven may get her own Stranger Things spinoff

We likely won’t learn the full depth of Victor Creel’s haunted house story until season 4. But the teasers make it look like a good concept for a spinoff series. If not, Netflix would be smart to play with Stranger Things’ timeline, either bringing us a spinoff set in the ’50s or ’60s during Creel’s time or somewhere else in the past. Or once Stranger Things wraps, we could potentially get a series that takes place during the present day, over 20 years after the events of the original series.

Deadline says that there’s been “talk” of a spinoff series with Millie Bobby Brown’s character Eleven in the works. And that may mean the final season of Stranger Things (whenever that is) could leave the door open for Eleven to go off and have her own adventures, potentially teaming up with more children like her.

With Netflix building up The Witcher with spin-offs like The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf and Blood Origin, it makes one wonder why Netflix waited so long to give a hugely successful show like Stranger Things its own spinoffs. But nothing is confirmed just yet, so we may have quite some time to wait before  any new shows are formally announced.

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