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Live-Action Stranger Things Prequel Gets First Teaser Trailer, 2028 Netflix Release Window

The live-action Stranger Things prequel series has its first teaser trailer and a 2028 release window, Netflix has announced.

“Before Hawkins, there was Marion,” reads the tagline. The show is called Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure, and it’s from The Duffer Brothers and Kate Trefry.

Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure. A new series only on Netflix. 2028. https://t.co/NvISItwYAF

— Netflix (@netflix) November 6, 2026

The series is a prequel set in the 1950s, before Stranger Things and before the stage play Stranger Things: The First Shadow, which explores Henry Creel’s troubled past in Hawkins in 1959. Specifically, the teaser confirms April 19, 1955, in Marion, Nevada. We see a discarded bike outside a fenced off restricted area. "Use of deadly force authorized," reads the warning sign. The camera pans up to reveal a mystery facility lit up at night, before we move to focus on the sky above.

Golden Globe-winning director Joe Wright is set to direct the …

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