Fans of Stranger Things have been waiting three years to see how the story of Eleven, Will, Mike, Vecna, and the town of Hawkins, Indiana, comes to a close. Now the first trailer for the final season has given them plenty to theorize on for the next five months, including the first look atTerminator icon Linda Hamilton as the mysterious Dr. Kay.
Just as previous seasons brought 80s movie icons such as Sean Astin and Robert Englund into the series in extensive guest roles, Season 5 has pulled out the big guns again – literally – by enlisting one of the few badass action stars of the 80s to take on Arnold Schwarzenegger and win. Hamilton’s role has been most guarded in secrecy, but the new trailer has revealed a first look at the actress in action, seemingly as a gun-wielding military type. You can check out the image above, as well as the full trailer for the new episodes below.
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Linda Hamilton Says ‘Stranger Things’ Was a Bigger Shoot Than Any ‘Terminator’ Movie
Hamilton previously spoke about joining the Netflix juggernaut, citing its production as being “bigger” than her Terminator movies. Sharing her thoughts on filming, she previously told Coming Soon:
“We took a year to shoot eight episodes, so I’ve never been on a project for a year. Six months is the biggest. Terminator, Dante’s Peak, things like that used to be six-month shoots, and hardly anybody does that anymore.
“So that was really interesting. Like ready to pounce, to just nail the character in the way that she deserved. They started with all my big scenes, my first week in. I mean, I was there getting ready before that, but my first week of shooting was huge. I looked at what they were on the schedule, and I was like, ‘No way are we doing that. I haven’t even spoken words from the character yet.’
“I realized that every single day they shoot, it’s that huge. Do you know what I mean? I was like, ‘This has to be a partial because there’s no way they’re going for these entire stunts, special effects, big acting, lots of character stuff.’ And that’s my first day, because every day that they shoot, they have big scenes like that.”
Stranger Things has been a consistent viewership winner for Netflix, and the end of the series is likely to deliver one of the largest ever debuts of any release in the streamer’s history (regardless of what people end up thinking of it), but will also leave a huge hole in Netflix’s future schedules. How will they fill the gap? With a new spinoff, naturally.
The Stranger Things universe has already expanded into several tie-in novels, and the recent stage show, Stranger Things: The First Shadow, and the Duffers have teased that the next chapter of Stranger Things will be very different from the story they have already told. The Duffers have previously debunked several reports that Millie Bobby Brown turned down a $10 million offer to reprise her role as Eleven in a movie sequel, and have categorically ruled out their future plans being such a blatant continuation of the same story.
Source: Netflix/Coming Soon
Release Date
2016 – 2025
Network
Netflix
Writers
Kate Trefry, Jessie Nickson-Lopez, Jessica Mecklenburg, Alison Tatlock
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