Stranger Things: Origins - a 1960’s or 70’s prequel movie where strange things also happen at that same lab in this small Indiana town.
Stranger Things: The Animation - a side story featuring the same cast as the original series, but now animated so no one finds it weird that these high schoolers are beginning to get crow’s feet.
Stranger Things: Sequel Series - a new series that takes place in the 90’s to capitalize on Millennial nostalgia instead of Gen X nostalgia. Features a cameo by at least one member of the original cast of kids, who is somehow still too old because there’s only 10 years between the 80’s and 90’s and it took longer than that just to finish the original series. Canceled after 1.5 seasons.
Weirder Events - Amazon/Disney/Paramount/whoever throws a bagillon dollars at the Duffer Brothers to make a new original series for them. They can’t reuse the IP of Stranger Things, but the series they make is basically a spiritual successor that does nothing but tread all the same ground. Canceled after 2 seasons.
I’m sure they’ll keep milking it. I can imagine:
Stranger Things: Origins - a 1960’s or 70’s prequel movie where strange things also happen at that same lab in this small Indiana town.
Stranger Things: The Animation - a side story featuring the same cast as the original series, but now animated so no one finds it weird that these high schoolers are beginning to get crow’s feet.
Stranger Things: Sequel Series - a new series that takes place in the 90’s to capitalize on Millennial nostalgia instead of Gen X nostalgia. Features a cameo by at least one member of the original cast of kids, who is somehow still too old because there’s only 10 years between the 80’s and 90’s and it took longer than that just to finish the original series. Canceled after 1.5 seasons.
Weirder Events - Amazon/Disney/Paramount/whoever throws a bagillon dollars at the Duffer Brothers to make a new original series for them. They can’t reuse the IP of Stranger Things, but the series they make is basically a spiritual successor that does nothing but tread all the same ground. Canceled after 2 seasons.
They tried to spin-off in the second season (episode 7). And while looking for that episode apparently they’re working on an animated spin-off now.