cyanxDavid Harbour, Stranger Things star, casually confirms that filming for the fifth and final season of Stranger Things will start this summer.
Stranger Things star David Harbour says that the fifth and final season of the series will start filming this summer.
Harbour confirmed the news at Middle East Film & Comic Con. He said, “We’re moving into Season 5m.” I still have a few months to train. That season will end in June. We’ll be starting to shoot that in June. Harbour gave fans an insight into what to expect from his character Detective Jim Hopper in Season 5. He said that he had done a lot of training in Season 4. He was in a very particular position, in that Russian prison. It was about making him different and sort of shedding an emotional, mental, and physical layer. He’s now back in town and he’s back where cheeseburgers are available, so he’ll be well-fed.
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Harbour has played Jim Hopper since Stranger Things premiered back in 2016. He has been with the show for the entirety of the series, along with the original cast. Harbor described in 2022 how he would handle the hectic shooting schedule between the final seasons of Starr Things and Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts. He will be reprising the role of Red Guardian in Marvel Cinematic Universe. He said, “It’s going to be crazy.” It’s going to require a lot of back and forth with me. They will have to share it with me. It’s kind of like this: I don’t know how they do it exactly, but it’s a weekly on, a week off, and two weeks on. I’d go back and forth.
Stranger Things Season 5 is on the way
Harbour confirmed Season 5’s filming schedule. However, Finn Wolfhard confirmed the February release window. Wolfhard said in an interview that he will be 22 when [ Stranger ThingsSeason5] is out. He started working on it at 12. This is crazy. This would put the fifth season on track for a 2025 release.
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This was just a month after Wolfhard spoke out about his thoughts on the future series. He said, “If Stranger Things continued for more than five seasons, I would think it would be absurd.” “I believe the Duffer brothers came up with a perfect ending in five. We didn’t know if it would be two. We’re glad people are still interested in it and happy to be there.
There has been a lot of speculation about potential spinoff properties since the announcement that Stranger Things will end in Season 5. The Stranger Thingswriters’ room discredited the claim that an Eleven-centric series was in the works, labeling it as “[n]et true”.
Netflix currently has the first four seasons of Stranger Things available to stream.