‘Stranger Things’ Creators Clarify Plans for Spinoff: ‘New Characters’ and a ‘Clean Slate’

A Stranger Things spinoff series featuring none of the Hawkins characters fans know and love? Well, stranger things have happened… Matt and Ross Duffer elaborated on their plans for a spinoff to the now-ending Netflix hit in a new Variety interview, saying the new show will not continue the storyline of the original. “We do every last remaining thing we wanted to do with the Demogorgons and Mind Flayer and Vecna and the Upside Down and Hawkins and these characters,” by the end of Stranger Things’s fifth and final season, Matt said. “This is a complete story. It’s done.” And thus, the forthcoming spinoff will start with “new characters” and a “clean slate,…