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Terminator star Linda Hamilton will be joining the cast of Netflix’s Stranger Things Season Five. The news was revealed at the recent Tudum event in São Paulo.
In addition, Jamie Campbell Bower will be reprising her role as the Big Bad.
Hamilton achieved fame for playing the role of Sarah Connor in the Terminator series. She also won an Emmy and two Golden Globe awards for playing the role of Catherine Chandler in the TV series Beauty and the Beast. Her other roles include appearances in Chuck, Children of the Corn, and King Kong Lives.
Created and directed by the Duffer Brothers, the Stranger Things series is set in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana in the 1980s. The narrative employs supernatural elements to tell a story involving the mysterious disappearance of a young boy.
Netflix is also reportedly developing an anime series within the show, reputedly set in Tokyo. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Season Four was wildly successful, attracting 1.35 billion hours of viewing over its first month.
Executive producers for Stranger Things Season Five are Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, and Iain Patterson. For their part, the Duffer brothers said last summer that they were reluctant to add any new characters into Season Five: “We’ve got a great cast of characters here, and actors, and any moment we’re spending with a new character, we’re taking time away from one of the other actors.”
“We do have an outline for Season Five and we pitched it to Netflix and they really responded well to it,” Ross Duffer told reporters. “I mean, it was hard. It’s the end of the story. I saw executives crying who I’ve never seen cry before and it was wild.
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In November 2022, Ross Duffer had been quoted as saying that Season Five would be “a culmination of all of the seasons, so it’s sort of got a little bit from each, whereas before each season was distinct — Three, this is our big summer blockbuster season with our big monster; Four was the psychological horror. I think that what we’re trying to do is go back to the beginning a little bit in the tone of [Season] One, but scale-wise it’s more in line with what [Season] Four is. Hopefully it’s got a little bit of everything.”
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