Shawn Levy is promising that “Stranger Things” Season 5 goes beyond being just a television event.The director and executive producer told Total Film magazine that the final season of the Netflix series has “major, major, cinematic storytelling” elements that rivals the “biggest movies” in theaters today.“There’s no way to be contiguous with Season 4, and not, frankly, expand scale and depth,” Levy said.
“It’s major, major, cinematic storytelling that happens to be called a TV series.
‘Stranger Things 5’ is as big as any of the biggest movies that we see.”Season 4 saw episodes extending into feature length, with the season finale clocking in at 2 hours and 30 minutes, and several installments hovering around an hour and a half.“Stranger Things” creators the Duffer Brothers revealed earlier this year that the Season 5 pitch to Netflix made executives “cry” over the course of two hours.“We did get our executives to cry,…
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