Netflix reveals Stranger Things prequel for 2028
Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure will take viewers to Marion, Nevada, on 19 April 1955, before the original series and its stage prequel.
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Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure will take viewers to Marion, Nevada, on 19 April 1955, before the original series and its stage prequel.
Netflix has revealed Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure, a live-action prequel scheduled to premiere in 2028. Its teaser places the story in Marion, Nevada, on 19 April 1955, before the events of Stranger Things and the stage play Stranger Things: The First Shadow.
Kate Trefry created the new series with Matt and Ross Duffer, who created Stranger Things. The brothers said they had the idea by the summer 2022 release of the original show’s fourth season; in November 2025, Matt Duffer told Deadline they were moving forward and Netflix knew the concept.
Trefry said the prequel tells a wholly new story while returning to the original series' horror, wonder and mystery. Executive producer Shawn Levy said it would introduce a new group of characters, themes and mythology. The teaser shows an unattended bicycle beside a restricted area at night, distant town lights and a disturbance in the sky resembling a wormhole forming.
Trefry wrote The First Shadow from a story by her, the Duffers and Jack Thorne. The play includes a Nevada experiment set a couple of years after the new series. In a November 2025 interview with Variety, Matt Duffer said the spinoff would explain a rock that young Henry Creel finds in a scientist’s briefcase in Nevada caves. The rock appeared in the play before appearing in the original series' fifth season. Duffer also said the new series would answer some remaining loose threads.
The play is set partly in Rachel, Nevada, and partly in Hawkins, Indiana. Deadline said a theatergoer who attended a filmed performance told the outlet that the Nevada location had been changed to Marion for the recording. Netflix filmed multiple performances in February 2026, but has not scheduled the filmed version’s release. Deadline reports that the filmed version is said to include changes aligning the play more closely with the original series' fifth season. Deadline expects it could connect the original series and the prequel.
Trefry, who has worked on Stranger Things since its second season, is the new show’s writer and showrunner, responsible for its day-to-day creative direction. Joe Wright is set to direct the first three episodes and executive produce. Levy, an executive producer and director on Stranger Things, will executive produce through 21Laps Entertainment but will not direct.
The Duffers will also executive produce, but will not run the show day to day under their exclusive agreement with Paramount. Their executive services on Stranger Things projects through Upside Down Pictures are exempt from that agreement. Levy recently moved from Netflix to an overall agreement at Disney’s 20th Television.
The Duffers identified casting as the next step. Deadline said in September 2026 that the project was nearing approval for a possible 2027 production start.
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