On its annual Stranger Things Day, Netflix announced Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure, a new live-action prequel series. [6, 7]
The series is set in the fictional town of Marion, Nevada, in April 1955, decades before the original show. Netflix plans to release it on the streaming platform in 2028. [7]
The prequel expands one of Netflix’s flagship franchises and fits the company’s broader strategy of building expansive universes around its most successful intellectual properties.