Maya Hawke Gives ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 Filming Update: “We’re Making, Basically, Eight Movies”

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Maya Hawke is sharing an update on filming for Stranger Things‘s fifth and final season. The Netflix series has been plagued by setbacks in the best.

Production for Season 4 of the sci-fi series was paused in March 2020 due to the pandemic, and Season 5 was pushed due to the writers and actors strike in 2023.

Filming for Season 5 began in January 2024, with Hawke joking on Podcrushed, “This show has been a little bit cursed.” “Our showrunners, Matt and Ross, take a lot of responsibility.

They have an amazing team of writers, but they’re very involved,” she said. “They write a lot and they are very intense and serious about the quality of the continued writing, and it takes a long time to write each season, and it takes a long time to shoot them.” RELATED: ‘Stranger Things’ Creators Shoot Down Season 5 Plot Twist Theory About Show’s Ending Hawke continued, “We’re making, basically, eight movies.