Even Stranger Things: The Duffer Bros. Tease Potential Spin-Offs After Series Concludes

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With Stranger Things finally returning for its fourth upcoming season, it looks like the Duffer Bros. may be planning to spin off of their super successful science fiction horror series. We know they're planning a fifth and final season but it looks like it may not be the conclusion for some of the characters as they've teased that the story may continue after the original show draws to a close. We've already seen some characters from outside the original cast and have seen a couple leave Hawkins for a new life, so what might they hold in store if they end up branching off of Stranger Things? 

With no real promise or official word on any upcoming spin off projects, the two seem to be in the creative mode and are beginning to come up with ideas for continuing on after season 5 concludes. When speaking with SFX, the two had this to say:

Matt Duffer: "We haven’t told anyone our plans! Not even Netflix! We have some ideas. In terms of if we were to do any sort of a spin-off, or any continuation of Stranger Things, for us the bar was always, ‘Is the idea exciting enough that we feel the pull of wanting to do it again?’ I want to feel the pull of, ‘God, I really want to do this. I feel really, really excited about this.’ So that’s why we’re being careful about what that is and whether we move forward with it or not."

Ross Duffer: "The key for us is that it needs to feel like its own distinct thing, not that we’re just retreading what we’ve already done, because what would be the point of that? I do think we have something that could be pretty exciting. So we’ll see…"