The Duffer Brothers offered some rare insight into the highs and lows of making the final season of Stranger Things in a new documentary.
Netflix has just released One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5 and the documentary offers a behind-the-scenes look at the hard work that went into making the fifth and final outing of the hit Netflix series. Fans are treated to interviews from the main cast, crew, and the show’s creators including Duffer brothers, Ross and Matt.
The factual special delves into the tough decisions that were made during the creative process, and the Duffer brothers offer honest insight into the challenges they faced along the way. Both brothers are seen in the writers’ room as they go back and forth over some of the show’s biggest story arcs, including Eleven’s (played by Millie Bobby Brown) ultimate fate.
Fans are keen to find out more about the show’s creators and are wondering whether they are twins due to their identical looks. Matt and Ross Duffer are in fact identical twins, born on February 15, 1984, making them both 41 years old.
They are known for working on all of their projects as a pair, with Stranger Things propelling them to global fame. Before they started work on the Netflix hit, they had worked on the horror film Hidden and a few episodes of the Fox sci-fi series, Wayward Pines.
The brothers founded the production company Upside Down Pictures, which is in an overall deal with Netflix. For their work on Stranger Things alone, they earned a reported nine-figure sum.
The Duffer Brothers were born and raised in Durham, North Carolina, with their father Allen being a film buff. The pair began making films in the third grade at school, using a camera gifted to them by their parents.
In the One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5 documentary, one of their former teachers, Hope Hynes Love, who actually plays teacher Miss Harris in the final season, opened up about their education and childhood.
She said: “Even in high school they were both more fearless and more considered than their peers. The boys were really aware of how much they didn’t know and how much they had to learn and they were never afraid of failing.
“So they took big swings. These boys didn’t spring up out of the ground, they are 40 years in the making. They had a parent who didn’t say it was ridiculous to buy third graders a camera.”
They were accepted at the Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts, but refused to be educated separately, so they relocated to Orange City, California, where they graduated from Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts.
In a previous Instagram post, Ross said of his teacher: “High school was rough for me and my brother. But Hope saw something in us we didn’t see in ourselves — and she helped give us the confidence to not only survive those four years, but to move to LA and chase our dreams.
“Shoutout to all the teachers out there making a difference. And please… let’s prioritize the arts in schools.”
As for their personal lives, Matt has two children with his fiancée, Sarah Hindsgaul, and Stranger Things star Winona Ryder is godmother. As for Ross, he married Fear Street trilogy filmmaker Leigh Janiak in December 2015.
The pair met at a production company in Los Angeles in 2006, while Janiak was an assistant to the producer and Ross was an intern, but they eventually separated in 2024.
Regarding their upcoming ventures, the brothers signed a four-year deal with Paramount, marking the end of their partnership with Netflix this April, 2026. As part of the new deal, they will have an opportunity to produce and direct theatrical feature films as well as series.
One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5 is on Netflix
Source: Mirror
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