The number of episodes of the fourth season of Stranger Things have been revealed

when Weird things Finally back on Friday, May 27, he’ll do it at Big leaked Cool Way: The long-awaited Season 4 of Netflix will include the first part Seven of the nine episodes are super-sized, TVLine confirmed. Part 2, which will consist of episodes 8 and 9, will drop on July 1 (You can watch the first eight minutes of the season 4 premiere above.)

In February, the creators of the series The Duffer Brothers revealed that the penultimate season of the ’80s sci-fi/horror/action/comedy set will be split into two parts—and for good reason. With nine texts, more than 800 pages, nearly two years of shooting [and] Thousands of VFX shots, “they said, have a runtime nearly twice as long as any previous season.”

Matt Dover said recently wrap That episodes “seven and nine in particular are movies. And nine are a feature film.” Regarding the end of Season 4 itself, Ross Duffer said, “We’re still improving it but we’ll say it’s been over two hours. It’s a big one.”

As mentioned earlier, the action in Season 4 will not only take place in Hawkins, where most of our original core characters still reside, but in California, which is now home to the Eleven and the Byerses, and Russia, where imprisoned Hopper is alive, if not well. necessarily. The Duffers recently told our sister site: The series’ interwoven supernatural legends will be revealed more than ever. Limit. “Every season, we peel back the layers of onions,” Ross said. “But this season, we really wanted to get into it and [reveal] Some of these answers.

Additionally, Season 4 is said to be even more intimidating than the previous outings. When (EP) visited Current company with Krista SmithRoss Dover noted, “When we pitched [the show] To Netflix all those years ago, we gave it because kids… fools at ET. This is their story. There are adults jaws And Close encountersAnd then the teenagers come in Nightmare on Alam Street or Halloween.

“But this year, we don’t have children,” he continued. They’re older, so we can’t do that The fools Any more. And so, all of a sudden, we’re leaning more strongly into the horror movie territory we love. It was fun making that change.”

Check out the photos from season four in the gallery above.