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Netflix’s live-action Stranger Issues prequel sequence, Different Worlds: A Stranger Issues Journey, now has up to date filming dates. Manufacturing is at the moment penciled in to run from mid-March 2027 by means of mid-August 2027 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, we’re informed following its large reveal final week throughout Stranger Issues day, and the present is filming beneath the working title Undertaking Marion, and extra just lately, it’s new codename Coolidge.
Final week, Netflix lastly lifted the lid on the long-gestating spin-off, confirming that Different Worlds: A Stranger Issues Journey is about to premiere in 2028. Co-created by Kate Trefry alongside Matt and Ross Duffer (who’re at the moment engaged on their Paramount film), the sequence heads again to 1955 and the city of Marion, Nevada, placing it a long time forward of each the flagship sequence and the stage play Stranger Issues: The First Shadow.
On the time of the announcement, all we knew was that filming would happen in New Mexico sooner or later in 2027. Now, because of the most recent manufacturing listings, we’ve bought a a lot clearer image of when cameras will roll.
When Will Different Worlds Begin Filming?
Based on the most recent intel, Different Worlds is now anticipated to movie from mid-March 2027 to mid-August 2027, giving the manufacturing roughly 5 months in entrance of the cameras.
That’s a shift from earlier plans. Again in July, after we rounded up the brand new motion pictures and sequence filming for Netflix in summer time and early fall 2026, Undertaking Marion was slated to start taking pictures in Albuquerque towards the tip of 2026. On the time, we didn’t even know this was the Stranger Issues spin-off as what we’d heard didn’t have any codename. Now we do, although, and the beginning date has been pushed into spring 2027.
As at all times with manufacturing schedules, these dates are topic to alter.
What Are the Codenames for Different Worlds?
Just like the flagship sequence earlier than it, the Stranger Issues prequel has gone by means of a number of names on its solution to manufacturing:
- Undertaking Marion: the present manufacturing working title
- Coolidge: an alternate codename the present has additionally been identified by
- Untitled Stranger Issues Spin-Off: the placeholder used throughout growth
Undertaking Marion is a reasonably clear nod for anybody who’s seen the teaser. It’s named after Marion, Nevada, the Nineteen Fifties city the place the sequence takes place. In hindsight, it was hiding in plain sight on manufacturing listings for months.
The place Will Different Worlds Movie?
The sequence will shoot in Albuquerque, New Mexico. That makes quite a lot of sense: the area’s desert landscapes can simply double for Nineteen Fifties Nevada, and Netflix runs its personal studio hub in Albuquerque referred to as Netflix Studios Albuquerque (there’s even a neat web page on the web site with places that could possibly be used).
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As it’s possible you’ll know too, followers surfaced what they believed was Matt Duffer’s Pinterest account which incorporates a “Spinoff” board which options quite a lot of Nineteen Fifties snaps and some that look remarkably just like that hyperlink we’ve shared above however we’re digressing!
It’s additionally acquainted floor for the franchise. Stranger Issues 4 filmed parts of its California and Nina Undertaking storylines in New Mexico.
Extra just lately, Upside Down Photos’ first non-Stranger Issues sequence, The Boroughs, additionally referred to as Albuquerque dwelling. It filmed at Netflix’s studio hub and on location round Albuquerque and Santa Fe, with Netflix constructing the present’s midcentury retirement group from scratch on its Albuquerque backlot. That shoot ran for roughly 5 months, from September 2024 to February 2025, which is nearly precisely the window Different Worlds has been given.
Who’s Engaged on Different Worlds?
The manufacturing itemizing additionally confirms a number of of the important thing creatives engaged on the sequence behind the scenes:
- Kate Trefry: creator, govt producer, showrunner, and author of the pilot
- Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer: creators and govt producers
- Joe Wright: govt producer and director of episodes 101 to 103, together with the pilot
- Shawn Levy, Paul Dichter, Shelley Meals, and Andrea Sperling: govt producers
- Pavlina Hatoupis: govt producer and line producer
- Carmen Cuba: casting director
- Richard Types: first assistant director
Carmen Cuba’s involvement is especially notable. She’s been the casting director on Stranger Issues for the reason that very starting, which is how we bought the unique Hawkins gang. With filming now set for March, count on casting information for Different Worlds to begin trickling out over the approaching months.
The sequence is produced by the Duffers’ Upside Down Photos and Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps Leisure.
How Have Followers Reacted to the Different Worlds Teaser?
If anybody at Netflix was frightened that curiosity in Hawkins (or Marion, because it have been) would fade as soon as the flagship sequence wrapped up, final week’s announcement ought to put these fears to relaxation. The brief teaser, which dropped on Stranger Issues Day, despatched followers straight into detective mode. They picked aside the April 1955 date stamp, the deserted bike by the restricted zone, the wormhole-like anomaly within the sky, and the return of “Sh-Increase” from Season 5. Over on the official Stranger Issues Instagram, the fancasting has already began, with one significantly common suggestion being Joe Keery taking part in Steve Harrington’s grandfather.
Not everybody’s on board, after all. A noticeable chunk of the replies accused Netflix of milking the franchise, which isn’t shocking given what number of spin-offs, stage exhibits, and animated tasks have arrived within the final couple of years. Nonetheless, the sheer quantity of dialog exhibits that Stranger Issues nonetheless has loads of juice left in it almost a 12 months on from the finale, contradicting our take from this summer time.
After which there are the Conformity Gate devoted. For the uninitiated, Conformity Gate was the viral principle that the Season 5 finale’s joyful epilogue was a Vecna-made phantasm, and {that a} secret “actual” ending was coming. The idea famously fizzled when nothing dropped on January 7, and forged members like Jamie Campbell Bower have since dismissed it. That hasn’t stopped some die-hards from studying the Different Worlds teaser as one more breadcrumb pointing to a lacking episode. We hate to be the bearer of unhealthy information, however the one new Stranger Issues on the horizon is about 30 years earlier.
What Does This Imply for the Different Worlds Launch Date?
Netflix has dedicated to a 2028 premiere, and a mid-August 2027 wrap retains that firmly on observe.
Nevertheless, given the creature, alien, and supernatural parts concerned, Different Worlds will nearly definitely want a hefty post-production interval for visible results. For that purpose, we’d count on the sequence to land within the second half of 2028 quite than early within the 12 months.
We’ll preserve monitoring the manufacturing because it heads towards its March begin date. Preserve it locked to What’s on Netflix for the most recent on Different Worlds: A Stranger Issues Journey.
