Netflix is bringing back Stranger Things in 2028 with a new live-action series, the company announced Friday. The new series, titled Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure, will take the sci-fi franchise to a new location and a new time period, and will logically feature a new cast of characters contending with supernatural terrors. Netflix announced the new series on Stranger Things Day — Nov. 6, the fictional date in 1983 when Will Byers went missing in the original series.
Netflix released a teaser trailer for Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure on Friday that offers some hints about the show's setting and story. The teaser reveals that the show will be set in the 1950s in the fictional town of Marion, Nevada. The teaser shows an abandoned bicycle outside of a restricted area at night.
A town or military base appears in the distance, and the otherwise serene scene is interrupted by a clap of thunder and what appears to be a hole opening up in the sky. The Chords' doo-wop classic "Sh-Boom" ("Life Could Be a Dream") plays on a radio attached to the bike. Stranger Things fans will recall that that song plays in the season 5 episode "Sorcerer" of Stranger Things when Max visits the memory of Henry Creel (aka Vecna) at Hawkins High.
Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure is co-created by Kate Trefry and original Stranger Things creators The Duffer Brothers. Trefry was an executive producer on Stranger Things and wrote the prequel stage play Stranger Things: The First Shadow. Joe Wright (Atonement, Pan) is directing the series.
Ross and Matt Duffer told Polygon last year that they will “be heavily involved” with a live-action spinoff, which has been in the works since at least 2022. Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure will premiere on Netflix in 2028.
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