Shawn Levy Says Stranger Things’ Pandemic Delay May Result in Best Season Yet

Stranger Things shut down production due to the pandemic in March like everything else, and it may end up being to the show’s benefit per executive producer Shawn Levy. Levy spoke with Collider for a new interview recently and during it he was asked about the show, which is back up and running on production after a multiple-month delay. Levy told the site that the shutdown allowed the Duffer Brothers time to do something the show has never been able to accomplish before.

“I’ll just say the pandemic definitely massively delayed shooting and therefore the launch of our current Season 4, date still TBD,” he said. “But it impacted very positively by allowing the Duffer brothers, for the first time ever, to write the entire season before we shoot it and to have time to rewrite in a way that they rarely had before so the quality of these screenplays are exceptional, maybe better than ever.”

The new season does not yet have a release date as Levy said. It willstar Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Joe Keery, Sadie Sink, Winona Ryder, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Cara Buono, David Harbour, Maya Hawke, and Brett Gelman.