Stranger Things is ready to take viewers on an animated trip to Hawkins.
Netflix announced Thursday that a new animated series Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 is set to debut on the streamer in 2026.
“Welcome back to Hawkins in the stark winter of 1985, where the original characters must fight new monsters and unravel a paranormal mystery terrorizing their town,” Netflix teased of the show.
Eric Robles will showrun and exec produce the animated show from Flying Bark Productions. Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer, along with Hilary Leavitt, via Upside Down Pictures; Shawn Levy via 21 Laps; Dan Cohen will exec produce.
The voice cast includes Brooklyn Davey Norstedt as Eleven, Jolie Hoang-Rappaport as Max, Luca Diaz as Mike, Ej (Elisha) Williams as Lucas, Braxton Quinney as Dustin, Ben Plessala as Will and Brett Gipson as Hopper. Additional voice castmembers include Odessa A’zion, Janeane Garofalo and Lou Diamond Phillips.
“The idea was kind of to evoke a feeling of an ’80s cartoon,” Matt Duffer said in the announcement.
“What we’ve been able to capture is the magic of Hawkins in a new way,” Robles said of the series. Robles also teases that the story of the series takes place between season 2 and 3.
The series announcement came on Stranger Things Day known by fans as the day Will Byers went missing in Hawkins, Indiana (on Nov. 6, 1983.)
The final season of Stranger Things is set to be released in three parts on Netflix, all around holiday weekends: Volume 1 on Nov. 26 (consisting of four episodes), Volume 2 on Christmas (three episodes) and The Finale on New Year’s Eve. Each will drop at 5 p.m. PT.
Millie Bobby Brown, Noah Schnapp, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Priah Ferguson, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Maya Hawke, Joe Keery, David Harbour, Winona Ryder and Brett Gelman star.
Despite the original series coming to an end, the creators have also previously teased upcoming projects in the Stranger Things universe.
“There are more Stranger Things stories to tell and in the works,” Matt said. “It’s a bit early at this point to talk about them, but we’re deeply involved in every one — it’s very important to us that anything with the Stranger Things name on it is of the highest quality and not repetitive — that it has a reason to exist and always blazes its own path. And also, it needs to basically just be … awesome. Or we need to think it’s awesome. And there are a lot of what we think are awesome things in the pipeline.”
For more, here is everything we know about Stranger Things‘ final season.
