[40] Jackson, Georgia remained as primary filming area for scenes in Hawkins' downtown area. In addition to Dixon and Stein's original soundtrack, the season features several songs selected from the 1980s and earlier eras. Eleven uses her powers to find Dustin and the group takes off for the mall. "New Coke Was a Debacle. "[67] This turned out to be a prelude to the release of stills and the first official trailer the next day on March 20. [65] The season's first poster, featuring a menacing creature slowly approaching the cast while they're enjoying Independence Day festivities, was released concurrently with the teaser. As the countdown commenced, the video slowly turned upside down and became fuzzy, and Mike could be heard calling out for Eleven as the video cut in between different recordings of computers running MS-DOS. Carmen Cuba, the show's casting director, attributed the slower-than-usual casting process to the heightened secrecy of the plot paired with certain roles' shifting characterizations and importance. With Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown. [87] The game was criticized by reviewers for being an exact scene-by-scene replica of the season. Eleven, who had just then reconciled with Mike, uses her powers to incapacitate the Mind Flayer, forcing it to flee to the mill. The Starcourt Mall was a shopping center located in Hawkins, Indiana and a subsidiary of Starcourt Industries. The third season stars Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Dacre Montgomery, Maya Hawke, Priah Ferguson, and Cara Buono. Dustin, Steve, Robin, and Erica arrive in a Russian lab underneath Starcourt and hide from Russian soldiers unloading crates from the elevator. The site's critical consensus states, "Vibrant and charming, Stranger Things transforms itself into a riveting—if familiar—summer ride that basks in its neon-laden nostalgia without losing sight of the rich relationships that make the series so endearing. At least thirty deaths, including Billy's and Hopper's, were falsely attributed to the fire due to intervention by the U.S. government. It will be worth the wait. With Murray translating, Hopper and Joyce hold Alexei hostage, forcing him to reveal that the Russians are attempting to access the Upside Down and that they are opening a portal beneath Starcourt. [103] Stranger Things, Schnapp, and Brown all won awards in their respective categories. [66][64][65], On March 19, 2019, the official Stranger Things social media accounts posted a short clip of rats scurrying through a dilapidated industrial area with the caption "It's almost feeding time. [27] A year later, the episode titles for season three were revealed, along with confirming the season would be named Stranger Things 3, similar to the second season. [52] As a result of its appearance in the series, "The NeverEnding Story" drew an 800% increase in viewership and streaming requests on YouTube and Spotify over the days after initial broadcast, putting Limahl, the song's artist, briefly back in the spotlight. [57][58][59] The "commercial" lists some of the stores found in the mall[60] as well as restaurants in the "state-of-the-art" food court, and closes with Steve (Joe Keery) and Robin (Maya Hawke) saying "Ahoy!" But he did not hide the fact that Mayor Kline of the city is guilty of high treason in the USA and was arrested the days following the "terrible fire of the night of Thursday 4th to Friday 5th July 1985. [34], The third season sees Ryder, Harbour, Wolfhard, Brown, Matarazzo, McLaughlin, Schnapp, Sink, Dyer, Heaton, Buono, Keery, and Montgomery return. [50] Legacy Recordings released a 16-track compilation of these songs on July 5, 2019.
"[33], The early pitch documents for the season featured a scene that had the Mind Flayer monster rampaging through the Hawkins Fourth of July Parade, but the idea was later scrapped as the scripts were written.

Not only did they recreate the facade of each of the storefronts, but they worked to fully stock them as well, in anticipation of any last-minute filming ideas the Duffers may have had. Hopper calls Owens to warn the, Eleven and the others determine the Mind Flayer is coming for her since she was the one who previously closed the gate. The movie theater facade was built completely on the set. [88], Within four days of its release, Netflix reported that over 40.7 million accounts had seen at least 70% of one episode of the third season, a record viewership for any Netflix program, while 18.2 million had seen the entire season within the time. 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"[1] Hawke's character was later revealed to be Steve's co-worker at the Scoops Ahoy ice cream parlor in the newly built Starcourt Mall. As Alexei does not speak English, Hopper and Joyce take him to Murray – the only Russian speaker they know – to translate. Watch trailers & learn more. [48][49] Like the previous two seasons, the soundtrack was composed by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein of the electronic band Survive. Grigori arrives to kill them, and they narrowly escape with a hostage – a Russian scientist named Alexei – in tow. Nancy and Jonathan regroup with Will, Mike, Lucas, Eleven, and Max and then theorize that Billy and Driscoll are both possessed by the Mind Flayer, who is using them to "flay" (possess) people to create an army. Blame 'Stranger Things. Levy noted in November 2016 that he and the Duffer Brothers had already begun planning a potential third season, saying, "We are not gonna be caught off guard and we don't wanna be making stuff up like the day before we have to write it and make it, so we are definitely optimistic and we have started thinking ahead. The teaser, which is the first to feature footage shot for the new season, is styled as an in-universe commercial for the newly built Starcourt Mall, one of the main settings for the season's events. [38][39][40], Filming for the 3rd season officially began on April 23, 2018. The shopping mall is very much a reference to the real shopping mall of the 80's, with the brands of the time, the design style of the building and so on. [86] It was developed by BonusXP, published by Netflix, and was designed with a retro look. ", "Shawn Levy suggests that Stranger Things could run for 5 seasons", "Stranger Things Season 5? 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