The Upside Down is now animated.
Netflix has released a first look and teaser for Stranger Things: Tales from ’85, an animated spinoff of its popular sci-fi series that will be released next year. The series is set between Seasons 2 and 3 of Stranger Things, and features a new cast providing the voices of iconic Hawkins, Indiana students.
The logline teases, “Welcome to Hawkins in the harsh winter of 1985, where the original characters must battle new monsters and unravel the paranormal mystery that terrorizes the town in an epic new animated series, Stranger Things: Tales from ’85.”
Millie Bobby Brown, Sadie Sink, Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin, Gaten Matarazzo, Noah Schnapp and David Harbor from Stranger Things will be replaced by new actors in Tales from ’85. Eleven is voiced by Brooklyn’s Davey Norstead, with Jolie Huang-Rappaport as Max, Luca Diaz as Mike, Ej (Elisha) Williams as Lucas, Braxton Queenie as Dustin, Ben Presara as Will, and Brett Gipson as Hopper. Additional voice cast members are Odessa Azion, Janine Garofalo, and Lou Diamond Phillips.
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Eric Robles is the showrunner, and Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer will executive produce along with Upside Down Pictures’ Hilary Leavitt, 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy, and Dan Cohen.
“When we started talking about what else we wanted to do with Stranger Things, this was one of our first ideas,” the Duffer Brothers said in the teaser. “The idea was to evoke the feel of 80s cartoons. Animation really has no limits. Eric and his team can and do go wild.”
“What we were able to capture was a new way of capturing the magic of Hawkins,” Robles said. “Our story takes place between seasons two and three, but we quickly learn that nothing is quite what they thought it would be. So get your flashlights and backpacks ready, because it’s going to be amazing.”
Check out the teaser below.
