
Joe Keery as Steve Harrington. Tina Rowden/Netflix
Stranger Issues season 5 remains to be within the works — however followers got a terrifying first look of the upcoming episodes.
Writers for the hit Netflix sequence took to social media on Thursday, September 28, to tease scenes from the fifth and remaining season.
“Hope the studios make a good take care of SAG quickly or else season 5 is wanting like this,” learn a tweet alongside an animated model of Joe Keery‘s fan-favorite character, Steve Harrington. “FYI that is pre-vis for a scene in ep 1. So technically your first have a look at season 5. We instructed Joe he has to carry out it EXACTLY like this.”
The scares stored coming with one other visible of Charlie Heaton‘s character, Jonathan Byers, attempting to attach numerous wires with Steve’s assist. “They did Charlie soiled,” the writers joked.
Manufacturing on season 5 is at the moment underway after beforehand hitting pause amid the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Most Hollywood TV and movie productions ceased filming in Could as writers fought for truthful pay following failed negotiations with the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers (AMPTP). The actors’ union adopted go well with by formally occurring strike two months later.
“Duffers right here. Writing doesn’t cease when filming begins. Whereas we’re excited to start out manufacturing with our superb forged and crew, it’s not doable throughout this strike,” Ross and Matt Duffer, the creators of Stranger Issues, tweeted in Could. “We hope a good deal is reached quickly so we are able to all get again to work. Till then — over and out.”
The WGA and AMPTP have been in a position to attain a deal earlier this month. Writers on numerous productions returned to work on Wednesday, September 27, however no initiatives could be filmed till SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP agree on a brand new contract. (Negotiations are set to renew on Monday, October 2.)

After the Duffer Brothers confirmed in February 2022 that season 5 can be the final, a number of Stranger Issues stars opened up about making ready to say goodbye to the beloved present. Stranger Issues, which premiered in 2016, was answerable for catapulting a lot of its forged members — together with Heaton, 29, Keery, 31, Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer — to stardom.
Final month, Keery mentioned how troublesome it will be to movie the ultimate season.
“I owe my complete profession to being on that present and all of the alternatives that I had since are due to that present,” he instructed WWD. “So it’s very convoluted. There’s a way of aid, there’s a way of unhappiness. I suppose my aim is to only actually soak it up as a lot as I can whereas we’re doing it, and never take any of it as a right as a result of it’s been a tremendous trip with such nice folks. After which as soon as it’s carried out, transfer ahead and attempt to simply maintain on to the enjoyment that we had after we have been making it.”

