Netflix’s supernatural drama starring Winona Ryder gets new title, cast

Last Updated on July 22, 2021

Netflix’s latest venture, a supernatural drama described as “a love letter to the ’80s classics that captivated a generation,” has finalized a title and its cast. Now being called Stranger Things (after going under the working title Montauk), the show nabbed Winona Ryder back in June and has now been outfitted with a cast of youngsters who will act as the series’ primary protagonists.

For a reminder, Stranger Things…

is set in 1980 Indiana, where a young boy vanishes into thin air. As friends, family and local police search for answers, they are drawn into an extraordinary mystery involving top-secret government experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one very strange little girl.

Finn Wolfhard, Millie Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Natalia Dyer and Charlie Heaton have all joined the show, which was created by Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer (Wayward Pines) and will be executive produced by Shawn Levy (REAL STEEL). The eight-episode series will debut in 2016.