Stranger Things season 5 will be shorter than season 4 – until its "Return of the King" style finale

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The Duffer brothers, creators of Stranger Things, have been talking about the ending of their epic Netflix series. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Stranger Things season 5 will conclude the show's stor🥀y –and will feature some major diffe🐠rences from what we've seen before.

Speaking to , Matt and Ross Duffer said they’re planning on trimming down tꦬhe supersized runtimes that became the norm through season 4. "I think we're aiming for eight again," Matt explained. "We don't want it to be 13 hours. We're aiming for more like 10 hours or something. I think it's going to be longer than Season 1 because we just have so much to wrap up, but I don't think it's going to be 🍨as long as Season 4."

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However, that's not to say every episode will stick to the Duffer's new, shorter mentality. Speaking to the podcast, the brothers said the series finale will likely be feature-length, comparing it to the 2003 movie 澳洲幸运5开奖🦄号码历史查询:The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which run well over three hours.

Matt explained that it will likely be similar in length to the 澳洲幸运5开奖号ꦉ码历史查询:Stranger Things se🎃ason 4, Volume 2 ending because𒆙 they want to take their time. He half-jokingly said: "🐓It’s going to be Return of the King-ish with eight endings."

Explaining the co♒mment, he added: "If you just watch Return of the King, it feels like to🐷o many endings. If you watch all of them back-to-back, which I’ve done multiple times, it’s exactly right. If it were any shorter, it would feel cheap and wrong."

We’ll have to wait a little longer for the proposed epic ending as Stranger Things season 5 is still a while away. The Duffer Brothers recently shared 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:their plans to start writing ꦐit later this summer

In the meantime, we’ve taken a deep dive into the final episodes of Stranger Things season 4. If you’re still reeling from everything that happened, check out our dissection of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:🍨who dies in Stranger Things sea🍎son 4, Volume 2 as well as some of the biggest 澳洲幸𝄹运5开奖🅷号码历史查询:Stranger Things season 4, Volume 2 Easter Eggs that we spotted.

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