After Stranger Things, the Duffer brothers want to adapt Death Note

The Duffer Brothers aren’t done with Netflix yet, nor are they Stranger Things Besides. The phenomenon series has just bowed out, after a season 4 broadcast in two parts. A fifth and final salvo of episodes should soon see the light of day, but until then, the directors have many projects for the Red N.

What does Upside Down Pictures have in store for us?

Logically after the success of Stranger Things, Netflix wants to continue its collaboration with the Duffer brothers. The two showrunners have just renewed an agreement with the platform for several new productions signed Upside Down Pictures, their new production house. The adventures of Eleven and the Hawkins gang have obviously given them some additional ideas, the Duffers now aim to tell “a number of new series with a narrative DNA similar to Stranger Things”.

To help them in this ambitious project, the Duffers are well surrounded. Heading up the studio is producer Hilary Leavitt (Orphan Black, Ozark). In addition to a spin-off of their cult series and a play directed by Stephen Daldry, the directors have also formalized some already promising science fiction projects. For example, we can cite an original series created by Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews (Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance) and some adaptations of Stephen King’s novels by Curtis Gwinn (already at work on certain episodes of The Walking Dead, Narcos and even Stranger Things).

Death Note is coming back to Netflix

Upside Down Pictures’ most intriguing project, however, remains this unexpected announcement: five years after its catastrophic live-action adaptation, the cult Death Note franchise will return under the leadership of the Duffer Brothers. No concrete details have yet been shared by Netflix. We can therefore expect the SVOD platform to bet on a sequel to its film released in 2017, in accordance with what was announced in 2019. However, the most logical hypothesis would undoubtedly be that of the reboot, which would allow the manga of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata to regain (finally) its letters of nobility.