You may not know who Matt and Ross Duffer are, but you’ve definitely heard of their work.
The feeling was powerful and inspiring.
There was nothing better.
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We wanted to capture that feeling again withStranger Things."
“We just started filming anything and everything,” Matt said.
“And then, each summer, we made a feature-length movie.
The first one was kind of unwatchable, but progressively, they got a little better and better.”
“It’s just us hitting each other with plastic swords,” Ross told KPCC’sThe Frame.
But it was very fun and very creative, and that’s what we did every summer.
We refused to go to summer camp, so we just would wander around and make these movies."
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And that’s when we wroteStranger Things."
“It was just going to be miserable and expensive.
“I was like, ‘just,’ and they were like, ‘No.’
This was beforeCary Fukunaga.
This was a long time ago.”
In the end, the story became a major inspiration for the Netflix series.
