David Harbour will head to Hawkins for one final time as Jim Hopper in Stranger Things Season 5. The popular Netflix series was set to begin filming in June before the writers’ and actors’ strike stopped production. While speaking with Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Harbour mentioned the “terrific scripts” he read from The Duffer Brothers before the strike and teased what’s to come in Season 5.
“It’s a hell of an undertaking,” Harbour said. “The set pieces and the things in the scripts that we saw are bigger than anything we’ve done in the past.”
The Upside Down invaded Hawkins at the end of Season 4, and Harbour says Season 5 will start “somewhere after that.” Although Harbour has not read the final script, he knows the ending and assures fans that things will “pay off” for the “OG characters” like Hopper, Joyce, and Eleven.
“I know where we net out, and it’s very, very moving,” Harbour said about the ending of the series.
Who is Involved In Stranger Things Season 5?
Alongside Harbour, cast members returning for Season 5 include Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers, Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven, Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler, Noah Schnapp as Will Byers, Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair, Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield, Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson, Natalia Dyer as Nancy Wheeler, Charlie Heaton as Jonathan Byers, Joe Keery as Steve Harrington, Maya Hawke as Robin Buckley, and Jamie Campbell Bower as Vecna.
Linda Hamilton is joining the cast for Season 5, and Prey’s Dan Trachtenberg will direct an episode in the final season.
Stranger Things is created and executive produced by The Duffer Brothers. Catch up on all four seasons of Stranger Things on Netflix.
