Netflix has announced a new Stranger Things series — a live-action prequel called Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure, set in 1955 and arriving in 2028.
The announcement came on 6 November 2026, Stranger Things Day, the anniversary of Will Byers going missing in the Upside Down. It arrived with a short teaser that read simply: “April 19, 1955… Marion, Nevada.”
The prequel moves the story far away from 1980s Hawkins, Indiana, to Marion, Nevada, in the mid-1950s. It is co-created by the Duffer brothers, Matt and Ross Duffer, with Kate Trefry, and Joe Wright is directing the opening episodes.
The new series connects to the Nevada experiment from the Stranger Things stage play and to the mysterious rock that Henry Creel discovered in a scientist’s briefcase in the Nevada caves. It will feature new characters, new themes and new mythology, with a full cast yet to be announced.
This is the third Stranger Things series for Netflix, and it arrives as the flagship show’s final season approaches — season 5, volume 1, releases on 26 November 2026.
The 1955 setting opens up a very different version of the Stranger Things world: no Walkmans, no arcades, no Hawkins High. Instead, a desert town in the atomic age, decades before Eleven ever existed — and a mystery that began long before the Upside Down reached Indiana.
Netflix has had a strong run of streaming hits, from Black Doves Season 2 earning a 100 per cent Rotten Tomatoes score to the Trinity trailer starring Richard Madden and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure arrives on Netflix in 2028.
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