‘Stranger Things’ Sets January Production Start For Fifth & Final Season
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The gang is returning to Hawkins. After a delay due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, production on the final season of Netflix‘s Stranger Things is expected to get underway in early January, sources tell Deadline.
Things are still in flux but according to multiple sources, Monday Jan. 8 is a target start date, with Jan. 5 also being mentioned.
Cast members are believed to already be in Atlanta, where Stranger Things films, for prep work, with table reads also slated for the next couple of weeks before cameras start rolling after the New Year.
Stranger Things was close to starting production on Season 5 when the WGA strike began May 2. Scripts had been completed by then but, faced with the prospect of filming without writers on set, creators, executive producers and showrunners the Duffer Brothers opted to instead postpone production, which was then further delayed by the actors strike.
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