Netflix has officially ordered the live-action prequel series Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure, expanding its flagship sci-fi franchise with a planned release in 2028.
\n\nThe greenlight was confirmed on "Stranger Things Day"—the annual fan event marking November 6, 1983, the date character Will Byers disappeared in the original series.
\n\nSet in 1955 in Marion, Nevada, the spinoff takes place decades before the 1980s events of the flagship show in Hawkins, Indiana, and predates the 1959 setting of the stage play Stranger Things: The First Shadow. The narrative will explore the period before Henry Creel—who later becomes the villain Vecna—was exposed to the otherworldly substance that gave him his supernatural powers.
\n\nThe series is co-created by franchise creators Matt and Ross Duffer alongside Kate Trefry, a writer on the flagship series who also penned The First Shadow. Trefry will serve as showrunner and executive producer. Director Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride & Prejudice) is attached to direct the first three episodes and executive produce.
\n\nFilming will take place in New Mexico. Additional executive producers include Shawn Levy via 21 Laps, Paul Dichter, Shelley Meals, Andrea Sperling, and Pavlina Hatoupis.
\n\nThe Duffer brothers are executive producing under their Upside Down Pictures banner.
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