Lately there is a lot of talk about the duration of films and series that reach the viewer. Already from the aforementioned three hours that lasts ‘The Batman’ by Matt Reeves, to ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ or ‘Doctor Strange in the multiverse of Madness’, which are among the longest of the respective franchises, passing through a James Cameron that does not he wants complaints about how long ‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’. Even if the palm took the fourth season of ‘Stranger Things’, the duration of which was surprising as the last chapter would have lasted more than two hours, while none of the previous eight fell below 60 minutes. Despite the differences between cinema and streaming, the truth is that the duration of “Stranger Things 4” does not seem to have mattered due to the success it is taking for Netflix.
Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer have already explained that due to the number of characters and storylines added to the qualitative leap in terms of production, they needed more time to be able to develop the entire joint narrative of the series. ‘The Plan’, the ninth episode of season 4, has a duration similar to that of a movie (two and a half hours) and the producers wanted to take up the matter. In a recent interview with Collider, Ross Duffer explained that they couldn’t find a way to split the episode without breaking the pace, which is why the length was stretched up to that point. “I think so we couldn’t find a good time to break up because there’s almost an hour of tension building up and then things get complicated for another hour. At the end of it all we had another 25 minutes to close. It wouldn’t have been very satisfying to part with him after that first hour. We think it would be out of stock. We didn’t want to force an ending so we thought about that monstrous episode. If you want to pause it, go ahead. “.
Executive producer Matthew Thunell already talked about the length of the episodes during an interview last May. He explained that it was why the team wanted to make sure every character was developed correctly. He said that since the series has such a large cast, they took great care to be able to fully explore them, which played a key role in the overall footage for the entire season.
A shorter season 5
This fourth season took longer to begin unraveling the great mysteries of the series, but the fifth promises “Move faster”, according to the producer duo. However, they noticed it “The surest thing is that in the end we will do what we have done [con esta temporada]that is to say a two and a half hour episode “so we would have an extraordinary ending at the peak of the series, but with a shorter overall duration than in season 5. “The characters will already be on the move, they will already have a goal and a motivation”Matt added. “And I think it will save at least a couple of hours and make the season very different.. I’m sure the finale will be much longer. It will be in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’ style. “he joked.
Source: E Cartelera
