Netflix confirms brand new Stranger Things project – as fans eagerly await delayed series five finale

STRANGER Things fans are in for a treat as Netflix announces a brand new project around the popular series.

The streaming giant revealed a documentary will take fans of the sci-fi, horror drama behind the scenes of the West End play, Stranger Things: The First Shadow.

The play serves as a prequel to the TV series and smashed box office records as the season was extended to April 2025.

Now, fans will be able to see the “electrifying” lead-up to the play's premiere in London.

Called Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow, the documentary will land on Netflix on April 15.

“With special behind-the-scenes access, follow the cast and crew ofStranger Things: The First Shadowas they race against time to prepare the ambitious, boundary-pushing stage show for its West End debut amid mounting fan and critic anticipation,” reads the documentary description.

Stranger Things: The First Shadow is set in 1959 Hawkins and follows a young Jim Hopper, when new student Henry Creel arrives in town and things start getting weird.

The news from Netflix comes as Stranger Things fans wait excitedly for the delayed airing of the show's season five finale, its final episodes ever.

Stranger Things takes place in the 1980s and debuted insummer2016.

It stars Winona Ryder, David Harbour – who portrays Jim Hopper, the town'spolicechief, MillieBobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard,Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin,Noah Schnappand Sadie Sink.

The show's final episodes will stream on Netflix sometime this year.

Its finale was delayed due to the 2023 Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild strikes which ran for months in the U.S.

While many fans are expecting the finale to premiere this year, the show's producers, the Duffer brothers confirmed the happy news.

“We’re focused on visual effects sequences right now, which started back in January,”; Ross Duffer told the audience at theSCAD TVfest in February.

“It’s going well. We’re actually ahead of schedule, which is rare for us.”;

Ross also admitted it will be hard to say goodbye to the show once it is all done.

“For both of us, I think it hit mostly that last week of filming, and specifically the last day of filming when we started to wrap our main cast,”; he said.

“It was a full year of filming that you’re really in it moment to moment. But that last week, and particularly that last day, you started to reflect on everything and the journeys that we’ve all been on. It hit us all pretty hard. Now we’re backing in on editing, and it’ll hit us again, I think, when the show is finally released.”;