The success of Stranger Things, which airs on Netflix, is largely based on the gang of Hawkins teenagers: Mike, Eleven, Dustin, Lucas, Will and Max. But did you know that one of them almost disappeared at the end of the first season ?
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In July 2016, subscribers Netflix has discovered a new original creation on the streaming platform: Stranger Things. The Duffer brothers’ film is heavily inspired by 1980s fantasy, science fiction and horror films and will return for a fifth and final season. It tells the story of Will Byers (Noah Schnapp), a little boy aged 12 and over, whose… His disappearance disrupts the lives of his relatives, starting with his friends Lucas Sinclair (Caleb McLaughlin), Dustin Henderson (Gaten Matarazzo) and Mike Wheeler ( Finn Wolfhard). Together they decide to track down their comrade and are supported by the mysterious Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown). If she had quickly become the main character of Stranger Things, the character could have died at the end of the first season.
Stranger Things: Eleven narrowly escaped death at the end of the first season
Few people know that, but Eleven (Onze in the original version) was not expected to survive beyond the first season Stranger Things. “Maybe I shouldn’t say this because I like to pretend it was all planned from the start, but we originally pitched the fiction as a miniseries. So, It was about Eleven sacrificing herself to save the world, and that’s where we left off. “Miniseries were very fashionable at the time,” Matt and Ross Duffer revealed during a masterclass at Chapman University in California. The Duffer brothers ultimately made the decision not to kill the young girl with psychokinetic and telepathic abilities. “We knew it.” Without Eleven, the series wouldn’t work. And in that moment we knew how special Millie was. “If there was going to be more Stranger Things, Eleven had to come back,” they continued.
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Millie Bobby Brown, the Stranger Things revelation
Millie Bobby Brown is one of the most sought-after actresses in Hollywood today. Since her appearance in Stranger Things, the actress has taken on leading roles on the small and big screen. Her fans particularly saw her in the blockbuster “Godzilla 2: King of the Monsters” and in the sequel “Godzilla vs. Kong”. The Netflix-loyal young woman lent her features to the mischievous Enola Holmes in the films of the same name alongside two cinema heavyweights: Henry Cavill and Helena Bonham Carter. A third part is also planned. Netflix subscribers will soon see her starring in the film “The Lady and the Dragon” (“Damsel” in the original version), in which she plays Princess Elodie, a young woman whose fate changes when she learns , that her husband gave her to a dragon shortly after her death.
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