‘Stranger Things’ Season 4: Premiere Date, Trailer, Cast and More

Sometimes it feels like there hasn’t been a new season of Stranger Things since the 1980s, even though it’s only been about two and a half years since Stranger Things Season 3 hit Netflix. When we last left the plucky teens and tweens of Hawkins, Indiana, they were reeling from heavy losses. Hopper (David Harbour) seemingly sacrificed himself to save the world and Billy (Dacre Mongomery) died as a result of his run-ins with the villainous Mind Flayer. Stranger Things 3 ended with Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder) leaving Hawkins with sons Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) and Will (Noah Schnapp) and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown).

However since Stranger Things ended in July 2019, we’ve gotten a bunch of tantalizing teases about what horrors Stranger Things 4 will bring to our beloved heroes and heroines. As early as February 2020, Netflix revealed that Hopper was not only alive, but stuck in a far-off Siberian prison camp. More recently, Netflix dropped an eerie teaser looking back at Eleven’s relationship with her “Papa,” the mysterious (and thought to be dead?) Martin Brenner (Matthew Modine).

So how much longer will we have to wait for Stranger Things Season 4? What will the new season of the Netflix series be about? And who’s in the Stranger Things cast? Here’s everything we know so far about Stranger Things Season 4…

What Will Stranger Things Season 4 Be About?

Oh, that I wish I knew! Of course the plot of Stranger Things Season 4 is one of the more tightly-kept secrets out there, but we have some sense of where things will go.

According to the Duffer Brothers, in Stranger Things Season 4, “a new horror is beginning to surface, something long buried, something that connects everything.” That said, expect more Upside Down shenanigans, a look back at Project MKUltra, and our scattered heroes (eventually) being reunited.

So where will our heroes be when we meet them again? We know that Hopper is stuck in a prison camp in Russia. Joyce has moved away from Hawkins with Will, Jonathan, and Eleven. Robin and Steve have moved up from Chips Ahoy to the local video store. And some casting news has hinted we will be visiting a psychiatric hospital.

The first episode of Stranger Things Season 4 is tentatively titled “The Hellfire Club.” That may sound like a reference to the villainous underworld club of the X-Men comics, but Netflix confirmed it’s actually the name of the Hawkins High School’s official D&D club. And it sounds like Dustin might be joining??

Who’s in the Cast of Stranger Things Season 4?

Let’s just say the Stranger Things cast is packed for Season 4.

Returning to the series are… David Harbour as Chief Jim Hopper, Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers, Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler, Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven (also known as “El” or Jane Hopper), Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson, Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair, Noah Schnapp as Will Byers, Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield, Natalia Dyer as Nancy Wheeler, Charlie Heaton as Jonathan Byers, Joe Keery as Steve Harrington, Maya Hawke as Robin Buckley, Priah Ferguson as Erica Sinclair, Cara Buono as Karen Wheeler, Brett Gelman as Murray Bauman, and it appears, Matthew Modine as Martin Brenner.

Netflix has also announced a few new cast members for Stranger Things Season 4. Back in November 2020, Deadline reported that Jamie Campbell Bower, Robert Englund, Eduardo Franco, Joseph Quinn, Tom Wlaschiha, Sherman Augustus, Mason Dye, and Nikola Djuricko were joining the show.

During Geeked Week, Netflix also revealed that Anne with an E star Amybeth McNulty will be playing Vickie, “a cool, fast-talking band nerd who catches the eye of one of our heroes,” Myles Truitt will be playing Hawkins basketball star Patrick, Grace Van Dien will play popular girl Chrissy, and Regina Ting Chen is playing popular guidance counselor Ms. Kelly.

Is There a Trailer for Stranger Things Season 4?

Yes! There have been many trailers, promotional clips, and eerie teasers for other teasers for Stranger Things Season 4!

The first Stranger Things Season 4 trailer premiered all the way back on February 14, 2020. Cheekily titled “From Russia with love…”, the 50 second clip took us to the wilds of Siberia and revealed that Hopper was indeed alive. He is the American prisoner we met in Russia at the end of Stranger Things 3.

However, Hopper isn’t the only presumed-dead character expected to make a comeback in Stranger Things Season 4. A teaser trailer released on May 6, 2021 took us back to the Hawkins National Laboratory. We watch a number of children partaking in Project MKUltra. Brenner walks through the halls towards Eleven’s old room.

It’s worth noting that the teaser for this 2021 teaser came with the description “001/004” and the next video was captioned “002/004.” The final trailer of the quartet gave us a look of Eleven’s new life in California.

When is Stranger Things Season 4’s Release Date?

On February 17,  2022, Netflix revealed that Stranger Things Season 4 would be split into two halves. Stranger Things Season 4 Volume 1 will premiere on May 27, 2022. Stranger Things Season 4 Volume 2 will debut on July 1, 2022. Netflix also revealed on this date that Stranger Things Season 5 would be the show’s final season.

Netflix confirmed on August 6, 2021 that Stranger Things 4 wouldn’t premiere until 2022. We got a few flashes of the new season towards the end of a 30 second trailer that mixed together key moments from past seasons. We get to see Eleven, with bangs, being held back by men in suits. Then a much older-looking Lucas, Dustin, and Max hanging out with Steve, Robin, and Nancy; all of them worriedly looking up at something. Then what appears to be Hopper with a flame-thrower, Hawkins cheerleaders, a figure walking away from a burning car, Steve looking at something with a flashlight underwater, Dungeons and Dragons dice flying in slow-motion, and what appears to be a younger Eleven in the Hawkins lab and the original four pals riding bikes in the dark.

Needless to say, Stranger Things Season 4 looks totally epic and very much worth the wait.

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