Netflix Announces One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5, Which the Duffer Brothers Say Was Inspired by The Lord of the Rings Behind-the-Scenes Documentaries

Netflix has announced One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5, a behind-the-scenes documentary connected the show’s 5th and last season.

Due retired connected Netflix connected January 12, the movie follows the cast, creators, and unit arsenic they bring the last play to beingness — and accidental goodbye. One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5 is directed by Martina Radwan, who commented:

“I’m endlessly grateful to the Duffer Brothers for trusting maine with a front-row spot to this unthinkable journey. Spending a afloat twelvemonth connected acceptable with them was a existent privilege — and an implicit thrill. Being capable to get adjacent and watching them bring this beloved amusement to beingness successful existent time, was axenic joy. I lone privation I could question backmost successful clip and papers Seasons 1 done 4. From the formed to their long-time collaborators, everyone welcomed maine with singular generosity, openly sharing their idiosyncratic and corporate experiences from a decennary of originative filmmaking. The Duffers ever propulsion boundaries and animate everyone to beryllium better, including myself. Their process and the amusement represents everything I emotion astir filmmaking.”

The trailer, below, teases the film, which touches connected the Duffer Brothers' interior treatment astir the destiny of Eleven, played by Millie Bobby Brown. This is thing the brace person discussed successful item successful assorted post-release interviews.

One past time. Watch the never-before-seen behind-the-scenes documentary connected the making of Stranger Things 5. Premiering January 12. pic.twitter.com/5FNvTNlvuz

The Duffer Brothers besides issued a comment: “Growing up successful Durham, North Carolina, we dreamed of becoming filmmakers — but Hollywood felt impossibly acold away. Everything changed erstwhile we watched the behind-the-scenes documentaries for The Lord of the Rings — on-the-ground films that showed the existent nuts and bolts of however a monolithic accumulation really gets made. We saw however stressed Peter Jackson was and thought: yep, that’s the dream. With the diminution of carnal media, that benignant of behind-the-scenes storytelling has mostly disappeared. We wanted to bring it back.

"One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things Season 5 — beautifully captured and directed by Martina Radwan — is our effort to bash conscionable that. If you emotion Stranger Things, oregon if you’re simply funny however a large Hollywood accumulation comes to life, this one’s for you.”

Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings besides influenced the Season 5 finale. Last week, the Duffer Brothers said the lengthy Season 5 finale epilogue and its extremity credits were inspired by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

“We thought astir [The Lord of the Rings] Return of the King a lot, conscionable successful presumption of the magnitude of the epilogue,” Matt Duffer told Deadline. “I ever support the Return of the King epilogue, but I’m 1 of those hardcore Lord of the Rings fans, to the constituent wherever I’ve watched each extended editions successful a enactment connected a azygous day. If you bash that, the epilogue feels perfectly cleanable and not agelong astatine all. In fact, if it felt shorter, it would consciousness perfectly distressing.

“I think, Stranger Things, if you ticker Season 5 each the mode through, it’s going to consciousness great. You conscionable privation to walk other clip with these characters. Anyway, that was benignant of the notation for the epilogue. Then we emotion the credits astatine the extremity of Return of the King. So that was the archetypal idea, and they were these precise elemental illustrations.”

Stranger Things whitethorn person travel to an end, but we’ve got plentifulness much connected the show, including the Duffer Brothers explaining wherefore the demogorgons didn’t assistance Vecna retired successful the last battle, and archetypal details connected the live-action spinoff.

Image credit: Netflix.

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