Netflix announces Stranger Things 4 inflates the budget from COVID costs

Weird things 4 Production just started when COVID-19 turned things upside down. In mid-March 2020 – just two weeks after filming the highly anticipated fourth season of its flagship series – Streamer Netflix announced that it was suspending all film and television production for a two-week precautionary period due to the pandemic. After months of production delays, the season resumed filming in November 2020, and was not finished until September 2021. Netflix will split the penultimate season into two parts: the first seven episodes of Volume 1 It arrived on May 27, followed by the two-episode mega-sized episode size 2 Final on July 1.

During Netflix’s second-quarter earnings report on Tuesday, co-CEO and chief content officer Ted Sarandos said the fourth season of… Weird things It was “more financially affected” by the pandemic than other Netflix shows. The restart of production after a two-week hiatus and COVID security protocols for a large cast of actors have contributed to Netflix’s COVID costs being about 5-10% of total content spending, which was disclosed at $17 billion.

“This show, in particular, was affected as much as anything else [by COVID] Sarandos explained that because of the young crew, the size and scope of the production, and the multiple locations we launched it in. It was a very costly burden. It took a long time to produce this show and a lot of it has been discontinued due to the early shutdown of production, the resumption of production, and extreme caution with the show’s crew early in COVID.”

Sarandos added, “I’ve been more impacted financially than a lot of our other projects. If you do it again, you might get a few more episodes of it.” (It’s unclear if Sarandos is referring to a possible fourth season of 11 episodes or additional episodes in the upcoming fifth and final season.)

In April, it was The Wall Street Journal mentioned Stranger Things 4 The cost per episode was $30 million, doubling the final season of HBO Game of thrones.

The Duffer Brothers creators have since said Stranger Things 5 It would be shorter than Season 4, which ended with the series’ biggest episode to date: a 150-minute long season finale.

The only reason we don’t expect it [the final season] To be long like this season [is]’If you look at it, you’ll find about two hours of condensation before our kids are really drawn to a supernatural mystery,'” Matt Dover said in happy sad confused Audio notation. “You get to know them, you can see them in their lives, they’re struggling to adjust to high school and so on, Steve is trying to find a date, all. Obviously none of that is going to happen. [in Season 5]. “

As for the series’ finale, Dover continued, “We’ll likely do what we did here, which is to only have a 2.5-hour episode.”

all episodes Weird things Season 4 is now streaming on Netflix.

Weird things 4 Stars Winona Ryder (Joyce Byers), David Harbor (Jim Hooper), Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven/Jane), Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler), Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin Henderson), Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas Sinclair), Noah Schnapp (Will Byers), Sadie Sink (Max Mayfield), Natalia Dyer (Nancy Wheeler), Charlie Heaton (Jonathan Byers), Joe Kerry (Steve Harrington), Maya Hawke (Robin Buckley), Bria Ferguson (Erica Sinclair), Brett Gilman (Murray). ), Matthew Modine (Dr. Brenner), Robert Englund (Victor Krell), and Jamie Campbell-Bauer (Vina).

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