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“Stranger Things 4” released a new teaser on Valentine’s Day that showed us the resolution of a major cliffhanger from the previous season. But the teaser’s title may tell us more than anything we need to know about the upcoming season.
What did the ‘Stranger Things 4’ trailer show?
- The new “Stranger Things 4” trailer showed a group of Russian military leaders watching over a group of workers as they build or work on a project.
- At the end of the teaser, one of the workers turns around to reveal that he is, yep, Jim Hopper (David Harbour) who seemed to have died at the end of “Stranger Things 3.”
- The trailer’s title is “From Russia With Love,” and that might offer a massive clue about what to expect from the new show.
What ‘From Russia with Love’ means
- “From Russia with Love” is a James Bond film from 1963 starring Sean Connery as 007. The film included Robert Shaw, who played Donald “Red” Grant, and Bernard Lee, who played the character “M.”
- In “From Russia with Love,” Bond finds himself trapped in an assassination plot that involves a naive Russian woman. Bond hopes to secure a Soviet Union device that has stolen by the nefarious group SPECTRE.
- Throughout the film, Bond and the Russian woman Tatiana Romanova fall in love while working together to stop the evil plot.
- At the end of the film, they reach a hotel in Venice where they are subsequently attacked. Romanova saved Bond’s life and head off on a romantic boat ride together.
- The film (and the book) take places on the Orient Express train, too.
What ‘From Russia with Love’ could mean for ‘Stranger Things 4’
- The spy thriller aspect of “From Russia with Love” can mean that “Stranger Things 4” will follow a similar format where the characters work to retrieve Hopper from Russia in the way that Bond tries to secure the device from the Soviet Union. It’s possible that Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) and Mike (Finn Wolfhard) would play the Romanova and Bond characters — falling in love and uniting to secure the device.
- At the same time, it could mean that Hopper himself takes on the Bond-esque character, falling in love with someone in Russia and having to decide whether to return home or not.