First Details Revealed From Netflix Animated Spinoff Series STRANGER THINGS: TALES FROM '85
This week at Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Netflix showed up to present fans with a first look at the animated spinoff series, Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85, described as a family spectacle blending nostalgia with supernatural intrigue.
Netflix’s official logline for the series reads: “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 in Stranger Things: Tales From ’85, an epic new animated series.”
With animation headed by Australian outfit Flying Bark, the show is being executive produced by Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer via their Upside Down Pictures, along with Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen via 21 Laps, Eric Robles, – who is showrunning the series – via Flying Bark Productions and Hilary Leavitt from Upside Down Pictures.
It is early days, and no images have even been released, but Robles talked a packed Annecy crowd through some of the animatics, character design, scary creatures – including some terrifying upside down pumpkin zombies and a snow shark.
Robles revealed many of the projects that have inspired Tales From ’85 but it is one above all that became his “north star.” “It all went back to The Real Ghostbusters,” he said. “It was silly but had a handful of dark, creepy episodes and we just kept talking about that. That became the north star for us.”
Other inspirations cited by Robles, who drew on projects old and new for his show about “friendships, horror-filled story and mystery,” included Transformers, ET and Goosebumps.
“The vision is kids riding bikes, using walkie-talkies,” he added. Making an animated show replete with danger was a new experience for Robles. “There’s danger and not everyone might survive,” he added. “The danger is real and that had an impact on the design.”
Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 comes out next year.
via: Deadline