Info in Movie News | As Netflix’s hit Stranger Things heads toward its final chapter, creators Matt and Ross Duffer have officially closed the door on one of the most popular fan theories, the return of Eddie Munson.
According to Deadline, the Duffer Brothers made it clear that Joseph Quinn’s character, who became a breakout favorite in Season 4, will not appear in the upcoming season. Eddie’s death in the Upside Down remains as it is. The leader of the metalhead Hellfire Club sacrificed himself after saving his friends quite bravely, and the showrunners want to respect that moment instead of undoing it just for fan service.
Joseph Quinn whose role in Stranger Things has been the step to his rapid rise to fame in Hollywood is now featured in many big movies like A Quiet Place: Day One, Gladiator II, Hoard, Warfare, and The Fantastic Four: First Steps. His busy calendar along with the Duffer Brothers’ decision to keep the show’s emotional core intact means that his comeback is not possible neither from a narrative nor a practical point of view.
The next and last season of Stranger Things is pretty much a farewell to the Hawkins people made on a grand scale. The story is set about a year and a half after the Season 4 finale, when the Upside Down is invading the real world and Vecna is more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Eleven and her friends will have to fight their most dangerous battle yet – the one that will determine the fate of both worlds.
Netflix has announced that the season will be out in three different parts. Volume 1 will be available from November 26, 2025, Volume 2 will be dropped on December 25, and the last, feature-length episode will be released on December 31, 2025. There will be no theatrical release; each part will be a Netflix exclusive only. According to the reports, the final episode is approximately two hours long, thus, providing a wrap-up that is more like a movie than a standard TV show finale.
The main characters are coming back to us with the full power, namely, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Sadie Sink, David Harbour, Winona Ryder, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Maya Hawke, Noah Schnapp, and Priah Ferguson. Along with that, a new character is added to the list of the familiar faces, Linda Hamilton, the star of Terminator, plays the role of Dr. Kay, a government scientist and a field agent who is after Eleven. Her character brings more intensity to the human conflict, which is the core of the story.
The Duffer Brothers and their writers have, quite literally, turned the final season script over and over in their minds for months in order to get the ending both emotionally and logically right. According to writer Kate Trefry, the last season had rewrite after rewrite in order to assure that the characters’ journeys culminate in a rich and significant way. The creative team looked to highly acclaimed dramas such as Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, and Friday Night Lights for their final episode, which is supposed to make a deep emotional connection with the viewer rather than being impressive visually.
Matt and Ross, the Duffer brothers, have stated that they were aware the general idea of the conclusion from the very beginning of the show's development. They have been tweaking certain details from time to time but have not changed the part that is the most emotional of the story which happens to be about saying goodbye, giving up, and the love of friends that had an extraordinary kind of childhood.
The lack of Eddie Munson, which was quite a sad moment, helped to highlight the concept that bravery leads to loss which is one of the main themes of Stranger Things. His giving of himself to save the others in Season 4 has become a permanent impression not only in the group but also in the minds of the audience and is, in fact, the show’s equilibrium of love, heroism, and death. To get him back would be to lessen the power of that effect.
There is a very high level of expectation for an ending full of action, nostalgia, and emotional payoff as the countdown to November 2025 is getting nearer. With the Duffers assuring that the ending will be of the quality befitting a story that has lasted for almost a decade, the final season is there to make the fans have their closure with no compromise. It may be the last fight with Vecna or the Upside Down mystery being finally unraveled, but Stranger Things Season 5 is turning out to be a dignified farewell of a fantastic journey since 2016.
source Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, People
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