With production on Stranger Things season two now underway, director Shawn Levy has been chatting to Collider about Netflix’s hit supernatural series, and what we can expect when we return to Hawkins, Indiana for the second season next year.
“We are filming in Atlanta again,” said Levy. “I feel like that’s how the Millie Brown [return] leaked because someone saw her trick or treating in Atlanta. I was so bummed about that because Netflix had this really clever idea of taking a picture at our table read last week and posting it upside down, which is what we did. But then like two days before our clever idea got to debut, a bunch of places were reporting that Millie was gonna be a part of Season 2.”
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“I’m not gonna say how much time has gone by,” he continued. “It is not the next day, I’ll say that. And there are several new characters who I think several of them are going to be new fan-favorites because they’re great, great new characters. But we are definitely sticking primarily with our core group, and what is different, howare they changed from the experience of last season… maybe ‘normal’ is never possible again. Will Byers was in that Upside Down for a while. So Season 2 is about this determined desire to return to normalcy in Hawkins, in the Byers family, in that group of friends, and it’s the struggle to reclaim normalcy and maybe the impossibility of it.”
The second season of Stranger Things will see the return of cast members Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobbie Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Charlie Heaton, Natalia Dyer and Joe Keery, along with new additions Sadie Sink, Dacre Montgomery, Sean Astin, Paul Reiser and Linnea Berthelsen. Expect it on Netflix some time in 2017.
Originally published November 12, 2016. Updated November 30, 2022.
