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5 characters we think will die in Stranger Things season 5
Stranger Things 5 Production Halted as Duffer Bros. Stand with WGA
Production on the fifth and final season of Netflix’s Stranger Things has been paused.
Netflix is making an animated ‘Stranger Things’ spin-off
Like Vecna’s creepy, encroaching tendrils, the Stranger Things universe is continuing to expand. Netflix has announced an animated series based on one of its biggest hits. The company hasn’t revealed many details about the latest spin-off just yet. Glitch Techs and Fanboy & Chum Chum creator Eric Robles and Flying Bark Productions are developing the animated series. Stranger Things creators the Duffer brothers and producer Shawn Levy are also involved.
“We’ve always dreamed of an animated Stranger Things in the vein of the Saturday morning cartoons that we grew up loving, and to see this dream realized has been absolutely thrilling,” the Duffer brothers told Variety in a statement. “We couldn’t be more blown away by what Eric Robles and his team have come up with — the scripts and artwork are incredible, and we can’t wait to share more with you! The adventure continues…”
The original show has been renewed for a fifth and final season, but that and the animated show are far from the only Stranger Things projects in the pipeline. A VR game is slated to arrive later this year, while a stage show prequel is set to debut on London’s West End in late 2023. Netflix also announced a live-action spin-off show last year.
The Duffer brothers certainly have a lot of plates in the air. Along with Stranger Things, they’re working on a live-action Death Note series (following a separate movie that hit Netflix several years ago), as well as an adaptation of The Talisman, a book by Stephen King and Peter Straub.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/netflix-is-making-an-animated-stranger-things-spin-off-173732745.html?src=rss
Stranger Of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin is now on Steam at its new cheaper price
Stranger Of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, the strange, chaos-obsessed hack-and-slash Final Fantasy prequel, is now available on Steam. Developed by Nioh and Wo Long creators Team Ninja in partnership with Square Enix, it has been exclusive to Epic’s games store, the Epic Games Store, since March last year. It’s also now cheaper than it used to be.
Stranger Things Writers Describe Season 5 In A Very Weird Way
One of Netflix’s most popular TV shows, Stranger Things, is returning for a fifth and final season. Not much is known about the story and plot, at least not officially, and the writers have now released a statement about Season 5 that describes the upcoming season in a way few could have predicted.
The Stranger Writers account, an official social media page relaying the thoughts of the show’s writers, recently said Season 5 should be thought of as if Season 1 and Season 4 had a baby. But the writers didn’t stop there. They said, “And then that baby was injected with steroids.”
Season 5 is like if season 1 and 4 had a baby. And then that baby was injected with steroids.
— stranger writers (@strangerwriters) March 21, 2023
Co-creator Matt Duffer previously told Collider that Season 5 will place a good amount of focus on the character Will Byers, who is played by Noah Schnapp. “We’re starting to see his coming of age, really. Which has been challenging for a number of reasons, some of which are supernatural. But you’re starting to see him come into his own,” Matt Duffer said.
Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin heads to Steam next month
Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin is heading to Steam.
The Team Ninja developed dark fantsy game will arrive on the service on April 6. It is already available through the Epic Games Store.
The 2022 action RPG is set in the Final Fantasy universe and is a prequel to Square Enix’s original Final Fantasy on the NES. Set in an alternate timeframe, it follows characters foretold as the Warriors of Light, who set out to destroy Chaos.
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Scientists just found a planet that’s stranger than you can imagine
Imagine a distant planet where life could potentially thrive — but perhaps only on one particularly bright side.
Astronomers announced the discovery of a world beyond our solar system, an exoplanet dubbed Wolf 1069 b. Their finding, recently published in the science journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, is intriguing exoplanet research for a number of reasons:
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Wolf 1069 b is around the same mass of Earth. That’s rare. Among thousands of confirmed exoplanets, “only about 1.5 percent have masses below two Earth masses,” notes a release from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, a research institute in Germany. Importantly, we know from experience that rocky, Earth-like worlds can create conditions that might allow life to survive.
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Even rarer, Wolf 1069 b orbits in its solar system’s “habitable zone,” meaning a special region where liquid water can exist on the surface.
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To researchers’ current knowledge (this can change with more observation), the planet isn’t being pummeled with harmful radiation. Wolf 1069 b orbits a star (Wolf 1069) that’s smaller and cooler than the sun, allowing the world to orbit pretty close and still be a potentially habitable world. The planet orbits its small star every 15.6 days!
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A weird quirk: Like the moon, Wolf 1069 b is “tidally locked” in its orbit, meaning the same side is constantly facing the red dwarf star. As a result, the planet’s “dayside” is perpetually day, and the nightside perpetually night.
So, if you stood on the star-facing side of Wolf 1069 b, a year would last about 16 days, the sun wouldn’t set, gravity might be similar to that on Earth, and you might even find water sloshing over the surface.
Crucially, however, there’s still no evidence of life in the universe beyond Earth — though there are exciting contenders for potential habitability in our own solar system. “A habitable planet can be habitable but not inhabited,” Ravi Kumar Kopparapu, an exoplanet researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, told Mashable earlier this year.
Finding an Earth-sized planet
Finding an Earth-sized world is a huge challenge.
Many exoplanets are found by watching to see if a star dims when one of these extremely distant planets passes in front of it. Many of the exoplanets discovered so far, however, are much bigger than Earth, so this slight dimming is “easier” to find. Scientists used a different strategy to sleuth out Wolf 1069 b, which is a small planet. They looked for tiny but periodic changes in light from the star, a technique called the “radial velocity method.” This can provide evidence that a planet is tugging on its star. Then, scientists calculate the world’s mass and other information by measuring how much the star’s light changes.
Credit: MPIA graphics department / J. Neidel
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In the vast universe, Wolf 1069 b is a relatively close Earth-sized discovery at just some 31 light-years away. That makes it a rare finding, and an exciting planet candidate to study for biosignatures, which are evidence of past or current life. “Because of its favourable prospects regarding habitability, it is among a small illustrious group of targets, such as Proxima Centauri b and TRAPPIST-1 e, to search for biosignatures,” the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy noted.
Huge, future telescopes will look for these possible biosignatures. What’s out there?