Netflix’s long-awaited Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 animated series has finally given fans a proper first look, alongside the reveal of its new voice cast.
Announced via Netflix’s Tudum in honour of Stranger Things day (6 November, the day Will Byers went missing in Hawkins in the show), the animated series has received its first announcement trailer, offering a glimpse at its art style and plot, alongside the reveal of its new cast.
With Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 set in between seasons two and three of the main show, all the main characters that fans will know and love have been recast, which does make sense considering the original actors like Millie Bobby Brown and Finn Wolfhard are all grown up now, meaning their voices are currently too deep to match how they sounded like in 2017.
Instead, Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 will feature a brand new voice cast, including Brooklyn Davey Norstedt (WeCrashed) as Eleven, Jolie Hoang-Rappaport (In Your Dreams) as Max, Luca Diaz (Transformers: Earthspark) as Mike, Elisha “EJ” Williams (The Wonder Years) as Lucas, Braxton Quinney as Dustin, Ben Plessala (Turning Red) as Will, and Brett Gipson as Hopper.
Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer will return as executive producers, alongside Hilary Leavitt, Shawn Levy, and Dan Cohen. Eric Robles (The X’s) will serve as showrunner, with Flying Bark Productions (What If…?, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) in charge of the show’s animation.
Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 is set for release on Netflix in 2026, with the show’s logline reading: “Welcome back to Hawkins in the stark winter of 1985, where the original characters must fight new monsters and unravel a paranormal mystery terrorising their town.”
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