The successful series “Stranger Things” will premiere its animated version on Netflix, the “streaming” service that has served as a showcase for the four seasons of the original production, they announced from the platform itself on Monday.
The brothers Matt and Ross Duffer, creators of the iconic saga, will work together again in this series that still has no official name or release date and about which almost all its details are unknown.
Among them, the one that most interests fans of the franchise: if leading actors such as Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Woolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Caleb McLaughlin, Gaten Matarazzo, Sadie Sin, Joe Keery, David Harbor and Charlie Heaton will voice any of characters.
“We’ve always dreamed of an animated version of ‘Stranger Things’ that follows the lines of the Saturday morning cartoons we grew up with. So it’s been amazing to see this dream come true,” Matt and Matt said in a statement. Ross Duffer in reference to productions like “He Man and The Masters of the Universe” (1983).
The film will be directed by Eric Robles with the production of the Duffer brothers together with Dan Cohen and will be promoted by the animation company Flying Bark, which is based in Sydney (Australia).
“Stranger Things” is the most successful English-language series in Netflix’s history, garnering more than 1.3 billion hours of viewing in its first month of release alone.
In addition, the platform has signed an agreement with the Duffers so that the fifth and final season is also hosted on their platform.
On the other hand, Matt and Ross Duffer recently confirmed that they would premiere a theatrical show entitled “Stranger Things: The First Shadow” in London and that they are preparing another “spin-off” (derived work, in Spanish) of the original.