- Upcoming spinoff 'Stranger Things: Tales from '85' will premiere in 2026.
- A live-action spinoff will tie up some loose ends.
- Box office earnings for finale screenings were estimated between $25 to $28 million.
After almost 10 years, Netflix’s hit sci-fi series “Stranger Things” came to an end on Wednesday.
The final episode was over 2 hours long and at the same time it dropped on Netflix, it was released in select theaters around the U.S. and Canada.
Since Season 1 premiered in 2016, the series’ universe has already expanded into games, books and even a Broadway play.
The final episode titled “The Rightside Up” wrapped up the stories of all the major characters after the group of Hawkins heroes went into the Abyss to defeat the Mind Flayer and kill Vecna.
The show’s creators, the Duffer brothers, have confirmed that this is in fact the end of the series, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be more coming from the “Stranger Things” universe.
‘Stranger Things’ spinoffs
‘Stranger Things: Tales from ‘85’
There is one upcoming spinoff, “Stranger Things: Tales from ‘85” that we already know details about, per USA Today.
It is an animated series taking place between the events of Season 2 and Season 3 and will feature the return of main characters from the original series such as Eleven, Max, Mike, Dustin, Lucas, Will and Hopper. New actors will be voicing the characters.
The show is set to premiere in 2026 according to USA Today.
“Welcome back to Hawkins in the stark winter of 1985, where the original characters must fight new monsters and unravel a paranormal mystery terrorizing their town in ‘Stranger Things: Tales From ’85,’ an epic new animated series,” Netflix’s official synopsis reads.
What we know about a second ‘Stranger Things’ spinoff
The Duffer brothers are working on a live-action spinoff that they haven’t released any details for yet.
The one thing we do know is that it will tie up the loose end of the rock Henry found that gave him powers and connected him to Dimension X/The Mind Flayer according to Cosmopolitan.
Matt Duffer said that the spinoff will be an “entirely new mythology.”
“This spinoff does connect and will answer some of the lingering questions. It’s not specifically about the Mind Flayer or the Upside Down, but hopefully it provides some answers to that at least those lingering questions related to Henry’s memory,” he added, per Cosmopolitan.
Matt Duffer added that they will start working on the spinoff again in early January.
How did the ‘Stranger Things’ finale do at the box office?
When the series finale episode released on Netflix on Wednesday, it was also shown in theaters in North America. According to Deadline, the showings on Wednesday and Thursday earned between $25 million and $28 million for theaters.
Because of the cast’s contractual terms for residuals, they couldn’t charge tickets to the Netflix screening event. They got around this by reserving seats with concession vouchers. At some theaters the concession vouchers cost $20 per seat and at others the price was as low as $11.
Earlier this week, the Duffer brothers announced that 1.1 million vouchers had been sold for seats to the finale, per Variety.