Well, No Shit. Jim Hopper Returns In A Teaser For Stranger Things Season 4

Feb 14

Feb 14 Well, No Shit. Jim Hopper Returns In A Teaser For Stranger Things Season 4

Hello nerds!

Netflix just released a surprise teaser for the new season of Stranger Things, which is nice. Even nicer is the teaser reveals “The American” being referred to by his Russian captors at the end Season 3 is none other than Sheriff Jim Hopper of Hawkins, Indiana.

“From Russia with love...” gives a look at a prison work camp, in the middle of a snowy and frozen hell. Guards, dogs, walls, prisoners, barrels with fires in them. It’s all very 1980’s action movie Siberia. After the camera finishes panning around the gulag, it zeros in our belovedly gruff lawman, alive and well. OK, maybe not “well”, since he’s seemingly stuck in Russia, but definitely alive.

I know being Stranger Things, it’s entirely possible this is not Hopper, and instead is some sort of evil doppelganger. Thankfully, Stranger Things creators Ross and Matt Duffer released a statement, confirming that is indeed Jim Hopper in the teaser, and not a new kind of monster. Plus, they also revealed the new season is in production.

“We’re excited to officially confirm that production on ‘Stranger Things 4’ is now underway — and even more excited to announce the return of Hopper. Although it’s not all good news for our ‘American’; he is imprisoned far from home in the snowy wasteland of Kamchatka, where he will face dangers both human…and other. Meanwhile, back in the states, a new horror is beginning to surface, something long buried, something that connects everything.”

Nice. Even though it’s still a long way off from being released, it’s nice to have some sort of an idea of what we can expect when the new season arrives. Even if we might not see it until 2021.

Stranger Things Season 4 will premiere on Netflix eventually.

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