13 January 2026<\/time>\n <\/p>\nThe Duffer Brothers started filming the Stranger Things finale before they had finished the script because they were so “low on time”.<\/p>\n
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Matt and Ross Duffer didn’t have a finished script when they started filming the Stranger Things finale<\/p>\n
\nMatt and Ross Duffer brought their hit Netflix series to an end after five seasons with a feature-length final episode – Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up – and the siblings have now revealed they were under huge amounts of pressure to get the shoot finished so the story was “plotted out” but the script hadn’t been finalised.<\/p>\n
\nIn new documentary One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5, Matt explained: “It\u2019s not like we don\u2019t know what the ending is. It\u2019s all plotted out. I have to write it, and we\u2019re just low on time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nProduction assistant Montana Maniscalco was later seen saying: “We are shooting episode eight, which isn\u2019t completely written yet – spoiler alert! So we don\u2019t even fully know what\u2019s going on.”<\/p>\n
\nMatt then explained: \u201cI\u2019ve never read 8 through, and we\u2019re just shooting it. I\u2019ve never done anything like this before. This is so weird jumping to eight \u2026 Don\u2019t love it. Don\u2019t love it.”<\/p>\n
\nHe went on to add: “We were getting hammered by production and by Netflix for episode eight. We went into production without having a finished script for the finale. That was scary because we wanted to get it right. It was the most important script of the season …<\/p>\n
\n“It was the most difficult writing circumstances we\u2019ve ever found ourselves in, not just because there was the pressure of we had to make sure the script was good, but there\u2019s never been so much noise at the same time.”<\/p>\n
\nHowever, the writer\/director\/creator explained writing the final installment of the show was a tough feat, adding: “[It] was the longest time we\u2019ve ever spent with the writers on a single episode.”<\/p>\n
\nOne Last Adventure debuted on Netflix on Monday (12.01.26) and follows the cast from the first table read through to the last day on set as well as showing how the team filmed some of the big action sequences.<\/p>\n
\nHowever, the documentary does not feature either Winona Ryder or David Harbour and director Martina Radwan was recently forced to explain their absence.<\/p>\n
\nShe told Variety: “We just didn\u2019t get the time. They were busy with other projects, and so we didn\u2019t have the time to sit down … Unfortunately, with David and Winona, we couldn\u2019t find the time. We tried.”<\/p>\n
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