The Duffers want to go further into Things' alternate dimension.
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But the Duffers don't want it to get too big.
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According to EW, the Duffers want four to five seasons.
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Those are all the Duffers' visions, not them pandering to anyone.
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Reward them with a cool apron that's decidedly not for duffers.
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This emotional connection allows the Duffers to get away with a lot.
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The Duffers cited director James Cameron as a big inspiration for this sequel.
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The Duffers reveal there are four new characters popping up in season 2.
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Kessler is suing the Duffers for monetary compensation and a trial by jury.
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The Duffers captured exactly what it was like to watch all that stuff.
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Homegrown duffers and real estate investors here hope that is about to change.
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Kessler says his pitch meeting with the Duffers went down in April 2014.
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The Duffers said they anticipate five seasons to bring "Stranger Things" to a conclusion.
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And that's why I think the Duffers wrote the show the way they did.
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When Netflix acquired a project from the Duffers in 2015, it was called Montauk.
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By the way, the Duffers are very talented at picking songs for this show.
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You know, the Duffers don't like to admit what they're referencing too head-on.
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And there was the possibility that the Duffers would get more ambitious in their remixing.
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While Hidden may have been another setback for the Duffers, it wouldn't be their last.
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" He added, "Documents from 2010 and 2013 prove that the Duffers independently created their show.
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Ever since I signed on to the project, the Duffers and I had this kinship.
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Did the Duffers give you references from music of the period they wanted to evoke?
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It seems unlikely the Duffers will let those cultural events pass without a hat tip.
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A good touch on the greens is what separates the real players from the duffers.
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But it seems as though the Duffers can never quite say goodbye to their demonic creations.
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The ways the characters react to these events let the Duffers explore their personalities and ambitions.
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In season 2, the Duffers made the choice to build the relationships instead of the mythos.
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From there, the Duffers started pitching the idea for "Stranger Things" to studios all over Hollywood.
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The Duffers responded to Brown's story on Saturday in a statement given to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Or, I feel like because of this past scene… [The Duffers] will be like, Oh. Huh.
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So, neither the Duffers nor Netflix was bashful about copying Kessler's title ... at the very least.
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The Duffers also explained to Vulture that they wanted to step things up for the upcoming season.
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"It would have been more bizarre to not include it," the Duffers told the New York Times.
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The show was initially rejected by 15 to 20 networks, the Duffers told Rolling Stone in 2016.
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But more importantly, the Duffers know when to bring their many splintered storylines and characters back together.
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The Duffers, I do believe, have a plan, but we'll have to see what they have in mind.
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The Duffers, I do believe, have a plan, but we'll have to see what they have in mind.
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That's where you get these duffers, these useless people who just get reelected by default year after year.
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Throughout the season, the Duffers make it clear that they aren't trying to run away from the show's roots.
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The Duffers and I love that scene, and so I'm just going to say that the Billy and Mrs.
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Following its initial statement, Netflix has given no sign that it's treating the accusations against the Duffers as credible.
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The Duffers said none of the marketing deals meant to hype their show would add to their bank accounts.
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That character was the exact opposite of the antagonist for Stranger Things, but the Duffers saw something in the actor.
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That same day the Duffers [brothers Matt and Ross, who created the show] and I knew she was the one.
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"Someone said I was one of those old duffers in the balcony on 'The Muppet Show,' " Schieffer told me, laughing.
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In December 2011, I reported via Variety that the Duffers had sold their low-budget genre script Hidden to Warner Bros.
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Early on, Paul Reiser was the Duffers' idea for this character – in fact, the name in the outline was 'Dr. Reiser!
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To put a period on that point, the Duffers even have Erica quite literally just define capitalism to Dustin and Robin.
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The Duffers, meanwhile, fired back saying they had documented evidence that they'd been working on "Stranger Things" since at least 2010.
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If nothing else, the Duffers have a real talent for coming up with gorgeous images that will stick in your imagination.
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What the company may want to solve instead is the fact that the Duffers don't want the show to go on indefinitely.
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The Duffers manage that quite well, too, thanks to a fine sense of restraint that increasingly seems a lost art these days.
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It's understandable that the Duffers didn't want Eleven's personality to change too much from the original season, where she was a breakout favorite.
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The show has been renewed for a third season, but neither Netflix nor the Duffers have confirmed that the show is in production.
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It helped that the Duffers locked into the lost possibility of regular-person protagonists, a bygone notion in our era of Chosen Ones.
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"I'll just say we won't be abandoning the Dad Steve magic," the Duffers said, emphasizing the bond between Steve and Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo).
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This morning, though, Netflix announced that both the show and the Duffers will return with a nine-episode second season, to air in 2017.
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I think it's just a stylistic choice on the director's part, how heavy they want to hit it, and, luckily, the Duffers are tasteful.
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But really, the Duffers trust their art department and props department and set-dressing department and costume department to go on little archaeological digs.
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The Duffers have used Dungeons & Dragons as an in-show reflection of the story's events since season 1, and that's still true in season 3.
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Both Duffers can be heard laughing as Sink describes her anxiety and discomfort surrounding the scene, and their insensitivity is distressing to say the least.
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The ingredients were all there: a sci-fi show written by a pair of brothers—the Duffers—that centered around a group of nerdy boys.
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So when I got the call from the Duffers — that they wanted me to come in and meet on it — I was obviously very excited.
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The Duffers featured brand-name products in the first two seasons of "Stranger Things," with Kellogg's Eggo waffles and Kentucky Fried Chicken having prominent roles.
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I have so much fun playing Eleven, and am forever grateful to The Duffers, Shawn Levy and Netflix for allowing me the opportunity to become her.
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Could someone politely point the Duffers to the section of the video store stocking such Reagan/Bush-era hits as Working Girl and/or Broadcast News?
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Kessler alleges that the Duffers stole his idea — or they did not pay him for using it as inspiration — for the first season of Stranger Things.
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It feels like the Duffers want to world-build toward a larger narrative, and start to encapsulate some notion of '80s culture beyond nerd-friendly genre.
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According to the Duffers, 173, online reaction to the trailer for "Stranger Things," which is set in the '80s, revealed a deep nostalgia for Ms. Ryder.
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If there's a secret to how Stranger Things ends up succeeding, it's in how the Duffers use the tiny Indiana burg where the series is set.
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Most of the show's characters (or, rather, most of the male characters) are nicely developed, and the Duffers have a real gift for unexpectedly creepy visuals.
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Ever since viewers met Nancy in July 2883 when Matt and Ross Duffers' surprise Netflix creation broke the internet, she has embodied no-nonsense teenage relentlessness.
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That might come from the Duffers' desire to make the new monster ominous and omnipresent, but instead it just renders the stakes of its threat woefully intangible.
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 3): 90%What critics said: "On the evidence of this plodding and predictable third season, the Duffers can't skip town soon enough.
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The second season, according to the Duffers, will draw inspiration from '80s action-adventure sequels — specifically, Temple of Doom, The Empire Strikes Back, Aliens, and Terminator 2.
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It&aposs afforded me the chance to work with remarkable people especially the Duffers, Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, Iain Paterson and Netflix [and] all of the cast members.
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Hard-work apparently doesn't pay off, as they're broadly characterised as "a lot o' duffers" (credit to Hagrid for providing that insightful analysis of clique culture in schools).
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It finally feels like the Duffers have figured out what Stranger Things is and what it wants to be—and the series is all the better for it.
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"Whether or not people feel [episode seven] was entirely successful, the Duffers want to take some swings, and they know that they're not gonna please everybody," Levy said.
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Kyle: The first things we did were those early themes and moods, which ended up being a fairly sizable library for the Duffers to pick and choose from.
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The Duffers originally planned to kill Bob off much earlier in the season, and they ended up developing him as a character because they enjoyed Astin's chemistry with Ryder.
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The short also features a big shot of the hulking radar tower at Montauk's Camp Hero Air Force base, which also pops up in the Duffers' original pitch document.
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Levy and the Duffers have said that season two will be very similar to season one in aesthetic, tone, pace, and the way the show focuses on its characters.
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While some, including EW's own James Hibberd, have argued the series should be an anthology, the Duffers opted to tell a continuing story in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana.
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" The Duffers issued an apology/denial of wrongdoing in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter on Saturday, saying, "We are deeply upset to learn that someone felt uncomfortable on our set.
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Market demands aside, it wasn't clear that the show even needed a second season, and the Duffers' silly insistence that it be called "Stranger Things 2" — like a real movie sequel!
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The Duffers, however, add in film grain and visual noise, making the title sequence seem conspicuously aged in a way dissimilar to the rest of the show—a winking acknowledgement of its period artificiality.
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"Stranger Things" creators Ross and Matt Duffers came up with the idea to bring New Coke back as a way to promote the show, which will start streaming on Netflix (NFLX)on July 4.
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But it doesn't here, for a particularly problematic reason: the Duffers are slowly nudging Hopper and Joyce together, with more and more scenes of them quietly bonding, including in the second season's final moments.
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"We're telling this story from the point of view of very human characters," the Duffers explained, making it clear that we're never going to get answers to every single mystery contained within the show.
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It's ridiculous, looking back on it, but what I'm getting at is I will bring 10 crazy ideas to the set, and what's great about the Duffers is that they will always take one.
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It's ridiculous, looking back on it, but what I'm getting at is I will bring 10 crazy ideas to the set, and what's great about the Duffers is that they will always take one.
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We did about a month's worth of demos and potential themes that the Duffers then used against the auditions, and then found out later that we had gotten the green light from the producers.
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Stranger Things 2 promises to be more, and more—and if you need something to get up to speed while you wait to get to your nearest screen, read our interview with the Duffers here.
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The season's final arc offers such a tight ninety minutes of storytelling, you can't help but wonder if the Duffers would be better off working in film, creating blockbusters like the ones that inspired them.
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Still, it was smart of the Duffers to use that narrative device as a motivation behind other stories this season, mostly because it hinted at the fact that what happened didn't end when the credits rolled.
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PEBBLE BEACH, CA. (Reuters) - For a week Pebble Beach Golf Links belonged to the world's best but on Monday the famous seaside layout on every golfer's bucket list was returned to the duffers and weekend warriors.
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Stranger Things was originally conceived of as an anthology; that format may have gone out of vogue by the time Netflix greenlit the series, but imagine how that would have opened up the sandbox for the Duffers.
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One of the biggest complaints from prospective studios about the Duffers' idea for "Stranger Things" was the fact that it's a science fiction and horror show that focuses on a group of children as the main characters.
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Netflix The Duffers have been vocal in touting how much creative freedom Netflix gave them with the first season — so odds are any explorations of Upside Down space-time mechanics won't be mandated by the streaming service.
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"That led to the Duffers' notion of pairing him with Dustin, who's also kind of keeping a secret and is about to have his heart broken in a similar love triangle," executive producer Shawn Levy explained to THR.
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"Based on our original discussion with the Duffers on this design, we wanted to go really graphic with it to highlight the horrific aspects of Barb being eaten, and something then growing on top of her," he explained.
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But Stranger Things 3 leaves things on a welcome note of resolution, and if the Duffers decide that this is it for the show, then they've managed to end their trilogy of seasons flawlessly—all Pittsburgh subplots aside.
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We reviewed some of those documents -- emails that the Duffers were sending back and forth -- and sure enough, it appeared to prove they were, in fact, developing a "Montauk"-like series well before Kessler came into the picture.
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It was very smart of the Duffers to marry their '80s movie homage to a more traditional small-town show, about the hopes and dreams of people who are stuck in a place that has seen better days.
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This still happens in season three, but the Duffers finally seem to have accepted that if they want to keep evolving and keep expanding Stranger Things' cast, they can't keep using El's powers as the ultimate trump card.
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TMZ broke the story, the bros were sued by Charlie Kessler, who says he not only made a short film about top secret government experiments entitled "Montauk" ... but he pitched the Duffers a project based on his film.
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Even if the Duffers have nothing more interesting to say than, "We love '80s movies!" they convey their affection for said movies so enthusiastically that you can't help but be swept up by the whole thing in the end.
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There's just so many great characters on this show, it's hard to figure out a way to put Steve and Hopper together, but I'm sure the Duffers will figure it out, because I do love Joe, I love working with him.
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Based on a short story by Peter Crowther that the Duffers adapted, the suspenseful 18-minute movie was well received by genre fans and eventually led to the brothers getting representation at Paradigm Talent Agency, where they remain prized clients.
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While I don't think the second season of Stranger Things holds up to the first, it's nevertheless an entertaining show, and I'll certainly be back to see what happens over the next several seasons that the Duffers reportedly have planned.
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While it's possible that the Duffers were inspired by Kessler's idea, it's also possible that he or someone else piqued their interest in the Montauk conspiracy and that it became one of the many cultural references amalgamated in Stranger Things.
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"When we were kids, we were obsessed with those self-lacing Nikes in 'Back to the Future Part II,' and, of course, we loved that Elliott baited E. T. with Reese's Pieces!" the Duffers, who are 35-year-old twins, said.
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Two years later, he met the Duffers at the Tribeca Film Festival and pitched The Montauk Project, a series that would expand on the short (both are based on an actual conspiracy theory about psychological experiments based near the New York town).
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Not that hearing the Duffers hash out all the minute details won't be interesting, but if you've already mainlined seven other episodes since the one you're watching them discuss, it may well lose the urgency that makes a good after-show a good after-show.
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Matt and Ross Duffer, the twin brothers behind hit sci-fi series "Stranger Things," wanted to be filmmakers since they were in elementary school, but that dream hit a snag when the Duffers received rejection letters from all their top choices for film school.
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Though there'll be a slight time jump before season three begins, the Duffers have said that both pairs will still be together, but the onset of puberty — and the trials of young love — may test the group's bonds just as much as any monsters.
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The Duffers go for competence rather than wonder every time, and while they are smart to do that, keeping the show on an even keel, it means that Stranger Things evaporates after you see it, a popcorn pleasure but not a whole lot more.
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I shadowed the production for almost a month in the fall of last year, while the Duffers were shooting their first two episodes and Shawn was prepping his, and the thing that didn't surprise me at all was that crew was having such fun.
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Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, better known as one-half of Austin, TX band S U R V I V E, got the call from the Duffers to write the show's music after hearing a couple of their songs in the 2014 film, The Guest.
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The director, Charlie Kessler, says he pitched the Duffers in 2014 about a sci-fi series on the urban legend of the Montauk Project, based on his 2012 short film, Montauk, which was on Vimeo but has since been taken down after news of the lawsuit broke.
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In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, the Duffers emphasize what they've been saying all along: this is more of a cinematic sequel than a second season of TV. Either way, beware of that sophomore slump (looking at you, Friday Night Lights, and nearly all movie sequels).
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Sure, these eight new, action-packed episodes are the usual grab-bag of 1980s nostalgia, but what makes Stranger Things 3 succeed isn't that the Duffers have expanded from cribbing Stephen King to cribbing John Carpenter or whatever; it's that they have finally started borrowing from themselves.
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The Duffers and I, depending on who's directing when, we keep sending texts to each other going, 'holy shit, Noah is crushing it' and we knew he had it in him, and it's really now to get in that moment, and put him firmly in the thick of story.
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This is so indicative of the way the Duffers either can't come up with anything substantive for girls to do or to be or are so heavily reliant on the boy-centered ensemble tropes around which they built season one that they can't figure out how to work women into them.
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The guy didn't exactly get the tidy, redemptive narrative arc that you'd expect from a major character death—he's still got loose threads with Joyce and Eleven that need resolution, and the Duffers wouldn't have just blown him to bits without at least having him and Joyce get it on at least once.
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Nothing that happens on Stranger Things will radically rewrite your conception of how stories about groups of preteen boys work, but the roles are cast well, and the Duffers (whose first names are Matt and Ross, I guess I should say) have a real talent for eliciting good performances from their actors.
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Someone who didn't understand how weak everything around them had become, or how high these duffers had been allowed to rise as a result, might just look at the photo and see some old guys heading out to play some golf, and maybe bet a little something on the outcome to make things interesting.
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"There are a lot of people in our group who have articulated the concern that this is a very comfortable, duffers-level course that's fun to do and it's within their capacity, so why do you need this more elaborate course?" said Brenda Nelms, a coordinator for Jackson Park Watch, a community watchdog group.
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I haven't talked about this with the Duffers or with Shawn but I have to believe that half the fun of directing an episode of "Stranger Things" for them is walking onto the set and suddenly seeing the extras wearing those clothes and seeing all the vintage props and getting inspired by what's in front of you.
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"I will say that we have found the performances of our actors consistently inspiring, and bringing in people like Sean Astin; this new kid, Dacre Montgomery; this new kid, Sadie Sink... as we've seen the work they're doing in episodes, the Duffers, recognizing strength, are making sure to service those characters even more over the course of the whole season," he teased.
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The Netflix series, which is in its fourth season (although the creators, brothers Matt and Ross Duffer, maintain that each installment isn't really a "season" in the traditional TV sense, but rather more like a movie broken up across multiple episodes), is being renewed alongside an overall film and TV deal with a nine-figure value for the Duffers at Netflix.
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These subplots about young love temper the grotesque bombast of the new season, because the Duffers seem to have learned that Stranger Things works best in the lulls—in the low-stakes, quiet moments between Mike and Eleven, or Steve and Dustin, or Brett Gelman's character and a random Russian hostage, in scenes were the show catches its breath and we're allowed to live alongside the characters for a minute.
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He's so easy to play off of, and I hate when these kids feel good about themselves, so I would never tell him this in person, but I'll tell it to you – I'm so impressed with that kid… I remember we shot it really quickly and the Duffers were really impressed with it but I was like, "I don't know if we got it, guys," and they were like "no, no, it's good," and then the fact that everyone responded to it so well was a complete surprise to me.
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