During an appearance at Terror Con (via Bloody Disgusting), horror legend Robert Englund addressed his possible return in Stranger Things Season 5. Englund confirmed that he’s very open to reprising Victor Creel in the highly-anticipated final season of Netflix’s coming-of-age sci-fi drama. The Freddy Krueger actor believes that there’s a way for his character to return, since Jamie Campbell Bower’s Henry Creel previously mentioned about his plans to visit his troubled father once again.
“In Stranger Things Season 4, there’s a sequence with Natalia [Dyer] walking through a kind of Nightmare on Elm Street dreamscape,” Englund said. “I heard the voice over from Vecna, my boy Vecna says, ‘Ah, old Victor. I remember him well. Perhaps I should pay him a visit.’ So, they have an option in Season 5 of either killing me on-screen or just telling the audience that Vecna killed me. They did bring it up, but there’s a lot of stuff they have to wrap up. It would be fun for me to do that.”
Even if Englund won’t be able to return in the final, some fans will still have the chance to get to know more about his character Victor Creel once they get a chance to watch the upcoming stage play adaptation Stranger Things: The First Shadow. In the West End prequel play, a young Victor Creel will be portrayed by Michael Jibson.
Stranger Things Season 5’s Delayed Production
Due to the ongoing Hollywood strikes, production on the final season of Stranger Things has been temporarily delayed. It was originally slated to start filming last June. The only confirmed new cast member for Season 5 is The Terminator vet Linda Hamilton, whose character is still currently being kept under wraps. Besides Season 5 and the upcoming stage play, Netflix is also developing other projects which will be set within the Stranger Things universe. These include an anime series titled Stranger Things: Tokyo, and an untitled live-action spin-off.
The series currently stars Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Joe Keery, Charlie Heaton, Sadie Sink, Maya Hawke, Priah Ferguson, Cara Buono, and Brett Gelman. Season 4 introduced a number of new fan-favorite character characters including Joseph Quinn’s Eddie Munson, Bower’s Vecna, Eduardo Franco’s Argyle, Tom Wlaschiha’s Enzo, Grace Van Dien’s Chrissy, and Amybeth McNulty’s Vickie. Besides Bower, it’s currently unclear if rest of the new Season 4 character would make appearances in the final season.
Stranger Things is created and executive produced by Matt and Ross Duffer, who also serve as showrunners. Executive producers are Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, and Iain Patterson. All four seasons are now available for streaming exclusively on Netflix.
