Stranger Things Season 5 is now halfway through production, having started in January following multiple delays due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes last year. To celebrate this milestone, Netflix has released behind-the-scenes footage in time for the first season’s eight-year anniversary, featuring the grown-up main cast. Here, Millie Bobby Brown looks back at her time in the show, and Noah Schnapp teases “the best season yet.”
You can watch the Stranger Things Season 5 BTS footage below:
The Stranger Things Season 5 footage started with the Duffer Brothers announcing they’re now halfway through filming and things are just getting more exciting while showing a clip of Gaten Matarrazo, who plays Dustin Henderson, riding his bike alone on what looks like a desolate Hawkins. “There’s so much going on,” they say as a glimpse of Hawkins High School is seen, with Matarazzo, Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler), Schnapp (Will Byers), and Caleb MacLaughlin (Lucas Sinclair) inside.
As the show’s creators welcome everyone on the set of the fifth and final season, it unveils a scene of Winona Ryder (Joyce Byers), Natalia Dyer (Nancy Wheeler), Charlie Heaton (Jonathan Byers), Matarazzo, Joe Keery (Steve Harrington), Schnapp, and MacLaughlin together in what looks like a secret warehouse.
It then features Keery and Maya Hawke (Robin Buckley) on their first day of filming as the set is also slowly built. An old clip shows young Brown and Schnapp, with the former going down memory lane, revealing she started the show when she was 10 and she’s now turning 20. “It feels very weird,” she says.
Sadie Sink (Max Mayfield) walks into what seems to be a clothing store and says they’re now savoring every moment as the series nears its end. Schnapp expresses his excitement in what he says is “the best season yet.” As the cameras start rolling, Heaton states that, just like in the previous seasons, nobody knows what to expect this time.
MacLaughlin is confident that the wait will be worth it with what they’ll give, while Jamie Campbell Bower (Henry Creel / Vecna) teases that if Season 4 was already big, Stranger Things Season 5 would feel bigger. New cast member Linda Hamilton also appears, admitting that she loves the show so much and she’s really a fan. As Matarazzo takes the scene as he enters the set, he calls it “home” and reminds himself of why they’re doing it and how fun they have.
The clip also gives a first look at new cast members Nell Fisher, Jake Connelly, and Alex Breaux, whose roles are yet to be revealed. As the Duffer Brothers say, this is the season “fans have been waiting for,” they hope they’re as excited as they are to tell the final chapter in this story. Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy, who serves as the show’s executive producer, also appears as he talks to Keery as different intense and action-packed scenes start to play out.
Gaten Matarazzo Opens Up About Stranger Things Season 5 Production
In an interview with TMZ, Matarazzo opens up about the production of Stranger Things Season 5. Now that the main cast is growing up, the 21-year-old star feels the need to end the show as they are visibly maturing. However, he acknowledges that production takes time and reveals the reason for this.
“We do want to get it out as quickly as we can, you know what I mean? It's just a big season,” he said. “So, it's taken a bit to shoot, and there are a little bit of delays to the pandemic and both of the strikes, but we're going full force right now, which is pretty great.”
Though the show is now halfway through production, he reveals he hasn’t read the full script yet, adding that the final scripts are highly secretive. True enough, details about the final season remain under wraps, and no one knows the characters’ fate.
However, given how the fourth season ended, their fight against Vecna will continue, though it remains to be seen who will survive and who may meet their demise, especially since Max remains unconscious. Hopefully, the finale will give the show and the characters the closure they deserve.
All four seasons of Stranger Things are available on Netflix, and the fifth season is expected to be released in 2025.
