Shawn Levy Discusses the Expectations and Pressure of STRANGER THINGS Season 2
Season two of Stranger Things is scheduled to start shooting next month. We don't know much about where the story is going to take our favorite characters, but since the first season ended we've gotten a few teases and hints that you can read about here. While we all excitedly wait to see what happen in season two, producer and director Shawn Levy talked to Southern California Public Radio about the high expectations and the pressure of continuing the story that has become a huge hit and an instant classic:
"Yes, the pressure is on. It would be so blatantly disingenuous of me to say differently. It’s scary to have people love something this much. It becomes impossible to banish all thoughts of not wanting to disappoint. This has been the challenge of it: on the one hand as we’ve see in the movie world, to do a follow-up that feels like the same thing is disappointing to an audience; to abandon things or change things [from the original], that disappoints the audience. A lot of Season 2 is next-level, some crazy stuff, but we must service these characters who are now beloved, who are known to the audience."
The Duffer Brothers have previously explained that season two will be treated like a sequel. They look at James Cameron as an example, explaining that "one of the reasons his sequels are as successful as they are is he makes them feel very different without losing what we loved about the original. So I think we kinda looked to him and what he does and tried to capture a little bit of the magic of his work.”
As you've seen online and on TV, the young actors of Stranger Things are getting older. Levy went on to talk about that aging and explained that they are going to embrace it as they continue the series:
"We had dinner with the kids. We could see it right in front of us. They are not the same. They are still, thank God, charming and authentic, but it is a different form of those things. I think we’re going to stay honest with these kids by growing with them."
There have been multiple seasons planned for Stranger Things, and it's going to be a lot of fun to see where the story ultimately takes these characters.
Via: Collider
