In Hollywoods Cutthroat -Deal -Making -Kosystem, Stranger things often happen -such as Matt and Ross Duffer, who moves from Netflix from Netflix to get a rich new overall contract from Paramount.
The Duffer brothers, the creators of the Netflix Juggernaut “Stranger Things”, are in advanced negotiations to create only film and television – with a focus on Tentpole films – in the Legacy Studio, which has just been taken over by David Ellison's parachute jump. The step would reunite the Duffers with Cindy Holland, the new streaming head of Paramount, who glows green at Netflix “Foreign Things”. The couple would also work with Josh Greenstein and Dana Goldberg, who share the film and series creative tasks.
Repetitions for the Duffers had no immediate comment. A spokesman for Paramount has not returned any inquiries about comments.
The Duffers still have a considerable business with Netflix through their production company on the head (an allusion to the phantasmagorical alternative dimension that drives the story of “Stranger Things”), which is operated by the manufacture of partner Hilary Leavitt. You have completed the production in two new series, which will be debut on Streamer in 2026 and are to be broken off with Bill Pullman, Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard and Alfred Molina “The Boroughs” with Bill Pullman, Geena Davis. And the relationship horror series “Something very bad will happen” with Jennifer Jason Leigh. A preview of the upcoming animated Prequel “Stranger Things: Tales from '85” was shown in June at the Annecy Festival 2025. And after the fifth and last season of “Stranger Things”, which has its premiere in November, the brothers are expected to offer an even unannounced live action spin-off series.
Before “Stranger Things” made it known, the Duffers' career remained almost at the start when Warner Bros. put on her directorial debut, the post-apocalyptic thriller “hidden” after they finally managed to throw him into the VoD market. M. Night Shyamalan liked her script for the film so much that he stopped her as a writer in his Fox series “Wayward Pines” in 2015.
Her pilot script for what became “stranger” was rejected by almost every network in the industry until Shawn Levys came on board and sold the show to Netflix. The first season, for which the Duffers staged six of the eight episodes, became an immediate sensation when she debut the first hit show of the streamer in July 2016 without a name fire creator or an issue. The fourth season of the show was Netflix's most viewed English -language series of all time when she made his debut in 2022.