The Stranger Things 4 creators Matt and Ross Duffer have provided additional information regarding a potential spin-off of the popular Netflix series, which had just released its Volume 2 episodes.
The Duffer Brothers stated that the spin-off series will be “1000 % different” from Stranger Things during an appearance on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast.
“I’ve read these rumors that there’s gonna be an Eleven spinoff, that there’s gonna be a Steve and Dustin spinoff or that it’s another number,” the creators teased. “That’s not interesting to me because we’ve done all that. We’ve spent I don’t know how many hours exploring all of that. So it’s very different.”
The Duffer Brothers added, “The most important connective tissue I would say is the storytelling sensibility of it. There is story that connects to the Stranger Things world, but it really is more about how we’re telling that story.”
The two are eager to “pass the baton” to a new creative team, Matt Duffer continued.
“The idea, ultimately, is to pass the baton to someone else, someone who’s hopefully really talented and passionate,” he explained. “Even the idea of Ross and I, say, doing a pilot and leaving it, it just feels silly to me. You really need to be there from the beginning to end. I think we need to find a partner to help us with that.”