After three years of waiting, Stranger Things will soon be back on Netflix! Season 4 will be divided into two parts: the first will be unveiled on May 27, and the second on July 1. Production cost of this new burst of episodes has just been unveiled and it is insane !
Stranger Things season 4: what to expect?
Netflix subscribers are counting the days until the return of Stranger Things on the streaming platform. The first part of season 4 will be available from May 27, and the second on July 1. This new burst of episodes, the penultimate in the history of the series, should pushing the limits of the possible. Indeed, the plot will focus on the exploration of the Upside Down, the Upside Down, which should take up more space in season 4. To make matters worse, Sheriff Hopper is a prisoner in a detention center in Russia and little Eleven has lost all of her powers… If Max could surprise us in the next episodes, a new frightening monster will come to sow chaos in the small town of Hawkins, and not only.
In this continuation of the Duffer brothers, the production put the means. It would be an understatement to say that the production cost of Season 4 of Stranger Things is consistent since it breaks all established records. The Wall Street Journal has just revealed the budget for the episodes and he is literally awesome ! Indeed, each of them would have cost the sum of $30 millionwhich comes to an overall cost of $270 million for the full season.
You are certainly wondering what justifies such a cost. First, special effects are expensive: the Upside Down does not yet exist in our reality (and so much the better) and on the post-production side, there is a lot of work. The salary of the actors also requires a hell of a budget : concerning the highest paid actors of the series, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown and Winona Ryder notably touch $350,000 per episode. There are 9, we let you do the math. Finn Wolfhard and Noah Schnapp, as well as other cast members, receive $250,000 per episode.
Stranger Things dethrones Game Of Thronesonce the title holder for the most expensive series to produce
If HBO did not hesitate to get its hands on the wallet to Game Of Thrones, Netflix, which has however lost a significant number of subscribers, has gone into overdrive for the science fiction series. While Game Of Thrones required $15 million per episode (for its eighth season), the price allocated for season 4 of Stranger Things is twice as high. Netflix fiction is now elected as the most expensive to produce in historywhich arouses our curiosity even more before its release!
