Sweaty Stranger Things stage play trailer insists it "might" point to what comes next
Stranger Things: The First Shadow is expected to bring Hawkins, Indiana to London's West End later this year
Of all the tricks Netflix has pulled in recent months to increase its revenue—cracking down on password sharing, raising prices, tossing Chris Hemsworth at the screen with wild abandon—few are odder than the news that the video firm would soon be pivoting to theater. Specifically, with its record-smashing genre series Stranger Things, which announced almost exactly a year ago today that it was making the move to the stage, because if there’s one thing that fervent fans of nostalgia-based Spielberg pastiches love, it’s watching dedicated thespians trod the boards.
But, just in case a sheer love of the dramaturgical arts isn’t enough to lure in the Hawkins-ites out in the audience, Netflix has decided to play a manipulative card or two to sweeten the deal, releasing a trailer for Stranger Things: The First Shadow today that goes very heavy on footage from the show, very light on any idea of what the play might actually looks like, and ends by saying, “The beginning of the Stranger Things story might hold the key to what comes next.”