call everyone stranger things fans! Star David Harbor has revealed when filming for Season 5 will begin.
According to the actor, filming for the highly anticipated fifth season of the Netflix series will begin in June.
“We’re going into the fifth season. I still have a few months to train. However, we start filming in June and that will be the last season,” he said loudly during an appearance at Middle East Film & Comic Con in Abu Dhabi over the weekend colliders.
“I’ve been training a lot for season four,” continued the 47-year-old Harbour. “[Hopper] was in a very specific position, this Russian prison. It was about making him a different guy and shedding some kind of physical, mental and emotional layer of himself. But now he’s back in town, he’s back in America where they have cheeseburgers, so he’ll be well fed.”
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Harbor plays detective Jim Hopper in the sci-fi series, and towards the end of season four, Hopper reunited with budding love Joyce (Winona Ryder) and his adopted daughter Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) after spending much of season four in had spent in Soviet captivity.
Pondering the end of the show, Harbor recounted Speaking on film last month, he said it was “definitely about time” to end the show, despite finding it “bittersweet.”
“What’s weird, when I started the show, I never wanted it to end,” he said. “That’s why I love the show. I think it’s a great show even though I wasn’t there. Now we’re almost nine years away from filming the first season and I think it’s time to wrap it up. But of course it’s very bittersweet. You know, there’s a sadness there.”
He continued, “But we’ve all grown up. It’s time for us to leave this nest and try other things and other projects. And letting the Duffer Brothers try different things too. I mean these guys are so talented. I want to see what they come up with next. So it’s bittersweet, but it’s definitely about time.”
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Though Netflix has yet to reveal the official storyline for Season 5, it will likely follow the Hawkins kids as they attempt to defeat the evil Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) once and for all.
The show’s creators, The Duffer Brothers, 38, have teased the show’s emotional endgame for the show in previous interviews, with Ross Duffer telling TheWrap that some Netflix executives were actually in tears when they announced their plans.
“We have a draft for Season 5 and we submitted it to Netflix and they responded really well to it,” he said. “I mean it was tough. It’s the end of the story. I’ve seen leaders cry that I’ve never seen cry before, and it was wild.”
Harbor has also previously narrated diversity that he knows how the series ends and “it’s quite moving and quite beautiful”.
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stranger things Seasons 1-4 are available to stream now on Netflix.