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The Stranger Things documentary is giving insight into the filming of the fifth and final season of the Netflix series.
In One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5, the Duffer Brothers admitted to not having a final script ready even as they started filming the series finale.
“It’s not like we don’t know what the ending is. It’s all plotted out,” Matt Duffer says in the doc. “I have to write it, and we’re just low on time.”
The final episode of Stranger Things is titled “The Rightside Up,” and it shows the final showdown against Vecna. The doc reveals that when they started shooting, production assistant Montana Maniscalco says, “We are shooting episode 8, which isn’t completely written yet — spoiler alert! So we don’t even fully know what’s going on.”
Matt Duffer says, “I’ve never read 8 through, and we’re just shooting it. I’ve never done anything like this before. This is so weird jumping to eight… Don’t love it. Don’t love it.”
The Stranger Things creator goes on to say that they “were getting hammered by production and by Netflix for episode 8,” adding, “It was the most difficult writing circumstances we’ve ever found ourselves in, not just because there was the pressure of we had to make sure the script was good, but there’s never been so much noise at the same time.”
Matt said that writing the final episode of Stranger Things “was the longest time we’ve ever spent with the writers on a single episode.”
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