Netflix announces Stranger Things prequel
The gist
Netflix announced Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure, a live-action prequel set in 1955 Marion, Nevada, debuting 2028.
It is the fourth Stranger Things project, moving the franchise decades before Hawkins.
How it unfolded
- 2022The Stranger Things spinoff was first reported to be in the works.
- Nov 6, 2026Netflix announced Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure, a live-action prequel series set to debut in 2028, as part of Stranger Things Day.
- Nov 6, 2026A teaser asset revealed the series will take place in 1955 in Marion, Nevada, and Netflix's social post began "Before Hawkins, there was Marion."
Key terms
- prequel
- A work whose story takes place before the events of an earlier work.
- spinoff
- A narrative work derived from an existing work that focuses on different aspects from the original.
Source: Wikipedia