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Top Everything We Know About ‘Stranger Things’ Season 3
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When is Season 3 coming out?
Just before the clock struck midnight on the last night of 2018, Netflix sent fans into the new year with the exciting news that Stranger Things 3 will (finally!) return on July 4, 2019.
Along with the release date, they shared the official poster of the forthcoming season, featuring the foreboding phrase, “One summer can change everything,” and a graphic of the young cast watching fireworks explode over what looks like a local fair. This is Stranger Things, though, and of course Millie Bobby Brown’s Eleven looks terrified, even as she holds her sweetheart Mike’s hand, as some sort of darkness continues to encroach on their quaint Indiana town.
The season comes nearly two years after Stranger Things 2, but the long wait will likely be worth it, as Netflix’s VP of original content Cindy Holland told Deadline that “more special effects” and a higher production value contributed to the lengthy gap between seasons.
Is there a trailer?
Yes! The full-length trailer for Stranger Things 3 dropped in late March following the release of a foreboding teaser (for that, see below) the day prior. It starts out as a sunshiny glimpse into summertime in Hawkins (county fairs, hanging by the pool, galavanting through fields), and a look at the core AV Club plus Eleven plus Sadie gang declaring they’re “not kid anymore” and moving into the frightening, uncharted territory of adolescence. And, of course, that’s not the only thing haunting the kids, the Upside Down still has yet to cease to exist! Season 3 looks just as nostalgic, and even more cinematic!
There’s also a creepy, vermin-infested teaser
Demogorgons aren’t the only creature infesting Hawkins — there’s also a frightening abundance of rats! And they’re running from (or toward) something!
After a whole lot of silence since the early 2019 announcement of the Season 3 premiere date, Netflix went ahead and shared a cryptic, brief teaser in mid-March to get fans excited in anticipation of the new trailer drop the very next day. Accompanied by the caption, “It’s almost feeding time,” the video shows a hoard of rats scurrying across what looks like an abandoned building. Are they the ones feasting off of something (probably gross and dead, as vermin are one to do)? Or are they trying to escape? Perhaps from flesh-eating monsters from the Upside Down who’ve turned to animals to lay low? That, we don’t know! While only a split-second of a clip of these little critters were featured in the actual trailer, it’s safe to say they may be a large part of Season 3, or at least a clue to whatever mystery unfolds…..
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When is Stranger Things 3 on Netflix? Who is in the cast, and what is going to happen?
Netflix’s Stranger Things season three was a dead cert even before the second season dropped to widespread hysteria in October 2017, and the company made it official late in 2017.
While it has been a longer time coming compared to previous instalments, the hype is well and truly ramping up as summer 2019 approaches. Find out everything we know about Stranger Things 3 below.
David Harbour (Chief Jim Hopper) had already indicated that season three probably wouldn’t arrive until 2019. Netflix’s vice president of original programming Cindy Holland then confirmed that season three would not be released until summer 2019, saying however that the delay will be “worth the wait”.
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“[Creators] The Duffer Brothers and [producer] Shawn Levy, they understand the stakes are high,” she said. “They want to deliver something bigger and better than last year. I think it’s going to be a fantastic season. It will be worth the wait.”
On 10 November 2018, David Harbour confirmed that he had finished filming – and that he was looking forward to shaving off his moustache.
The summer 2019 release ties in with the show’s initial ‘mall teaser’, which first hinted at a summer release.
In September 2018, executive producer and director Shawn Levy said during the Emmys that “cinematically, it’s our biggest season yet”, which perhaps goes some way to explain the additional time required to film season three.
Is there a trailer?
YES. Netflix unveiled the first full trailer for Stranger Things’ summery season three on 20th March. Set to The Who’s Baba O’Reilly, it’s clear the Stranger Things kids are starting to grow up – but the terrors of the Upside Down haven’t gone away…
A couple of months later, Netflix released another full-length trailer that revealed the return of season two’s monstrous Mind Flayer, who now appears to be possessing Dacre Montgomery’s character Billy.
