Netflix's wildly popular "Stranger Things" is getting a spin-off series and a stage play set within the supernatural world, the streaming giant announced Wednesday.
The play is directed by film and theatrical director Stephen Daldry.
Furthermore, a live-action "Stranger Things" spin-off series based on an original idea by The Duffer Brothers is also on the way.
The projects come under an overall deal between the brothers and Netflix which aims to create the kind of stories that inspired the Duffers growing up -- stories that take place at that beautiful crossroads where the ordinary meets the extraordinary.
"Stranger Things" is a 2016 American science fiction horror series created by the Duffer Brothers and produced by Monkey Massacre Productions & 21 Laps Entertainment.
The brothers serve as executive producers on the series, alongside Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen of 21 Laps Entertainment, Iain Paterson, and Curtis Gwinn.
They developed the series as a mix of investigative drama alongside supernatural elements portrayed with childlike sensibilities.
The series is set in the 1980s and created an homage to the pop culture of that decade.
Several themes and directorial aspects were inspired and aesthetically informed by the works of Steven Spielberg, John Carpenter, and Stephen King, among others, including several films, anime, and video games.
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Its latest season sits atop the streaming giant's all-time viewing rankings for English-language shows, which use a metric of total hours watched within 28 days of release.
The fourth season has clocked up more than 1.15 billion hours -- a figure likely to rise as the final episodes only dropped on Friday, and is only surpassed by South Korean smash hit "Squid Game."
The Duffer brothers previously announced that season five would conclude the show's "complete story arc", but teased in an open letter to fans in February that there were many more exciting stories to tell within the world of 'Stranger Things.
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