One 'Stranger Things' villain is coming back for season 3
Stranger Things season 3 is slowly getting closer to being a binge-able reality, but until we can see it, snippets of what to expect during the show’s new season have been slowly pouring in.
We recently found out about a few characters that were supposed to die in season one, and today, we found out about what monster is coming back from the Upside Down to terrorize the kids of Hawkins.
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In a new report from Screen Rant, Netflix and Century Books have partnered up to officially release the world’s first Stranger Things companion guide of the show called “Worlds Turned Upside Down.”
In this companion, the show’s third season is teased, and it promises that one tentacled monster will be returning to haunt the kids of Hawkins, Indiana once more: The Mind Flayer, the monster that came for, and possessed, Will’s body in season two of the show.
“The Mind Flayer hasn’t lost interest in Hawkins either. The tentacled creature continues to loom near Hawkins inside the Upside Down, and its malevolent influence isn’t absent from the new season,” the book reads. (via ScreenRant)
As if that wasn’t enough, the guide then continues with one of the show’s producers Shawn Levy, which reads:
”We ended season two with a clear signal that the Shadow Monster was not eliminated, and maybe he’s even identified his foe. And that darkness, and the battle that it will require, grows in season three.”
Yeah…we’re stressed.
But we can’t wait for the show’s highly anticipated third season, which is reportedly coming summer 2019.
Stranger Things season 3, what we know so far:
The show’s third season apparently began filming in the spring. Even though it recently started production, we have been getting some snippets of the upcoming season.
It was recently revealed in an 80’s style commercial that the show will be getting a new hang out spot for the kids and teens of Hawkins, Indiana. The new spot will be a mall called Starcourt Mall, where you’ll find the “cool kids” frequenting.
What’s more? The mall was announced to be opening in “next summer,” which means that we can only assume the new season will come then.
We also know that the cast will be adding three new characters into the Hawkins mix—an “alternative girl,” Cary Elwes playing the Hawkins mayor, a “handsome, slick and sleazy” ’80s politician and Jake Busey playing a local journalist with “questionable morals.”
It was recently reported that the show is set to be “much darker” than in previous seasons. According to Producer and director Shawn Levy the show will go to some darker places than we’ve seen:
“[It’s] definitely going to get darker still, places that I think audiences are going to really love,” Levy revealed. “It’s got so much heart and humor.”
Speaking with Bad TV (apologies in advance for any translating errors) a while later, Levy shared that the show’s forthcoming season is the “most ambitious” of them all, saying:
“I can tell you that we are working on the third season very quickly, and I can also tell you that it is by far the most ambitious season ever made, and I want to underline it: it is by far the most ambitious! We are on another level.”
While he didn’t give away much, Levy did share that the new season will draw some inspiration from horror directors during the ’80s, with a specific mention of Halloween creator, John Carpenter:
“There will be very much the ghost of John Carpenter and other ’80s horror directors.”
While we’re stoked about all of the Stranger Things’ news, the best news of all is that our favorite dad Steve Harrington (Joe Keery) is set to have a bigger role in Season 3.
“We’ll definitely get to see some more of Steve Harrington in Season 3, and I’ll just say we won’t be abandoning the Dad Steve magic. I don’t want to say much more, but I literally feel that we were walking along and we stumbled onto a gold mine with Dad Steve,” Levy says.
The third season of Stranger Things is set to debut sometime in 2019.
