Stranger Things star says it's taking a "long time" to shoot the final season because it's "basically eight movies"

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Stranger Things season 5 is set to be epic in scale

Maya Hawke in Stranger Things
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Stranger Things star Maya Hawke has teased the epic scale of the upcoming final season, saying that the next batch of episodes feels more like multiple movies.

"It takes a long time to write each season and a long time to shoot them," Hawke, who plays Robin Buckley in the hit Netflix series, told the Podcrushed podcast. "We're making basically eight movies."

Stranger Things season 4 made headlines for the length of its episodes, with each episode lasting at least an hour and the finale clocking in at a mighty two hours and 19 minutes, so it seems safe to say that season 5 will follow suit. 

We don't know all that much about Stranger Things season 5 just yet, including episode runtimes – and it's not just us who are in the dark when it comes to spoilers. "I nudge her for them and she won't give them up!" Hawke's dad, actor Ethan Hawke, joked in an interview with PEOPLE. "She says, 'You've got a big mouth.' So nope, not even to dear old dad."

Stranger Things season 5 doesn't have a release date yet. While we wait for the final installment to arrive, check out our guide to the rest of the best Netflix shows to add to your watchlist. 

Emily Garbutt
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I’m an Entertainment Writer here at GamesRadar+, covering everything film and TV-related across the Total Film and SFX sections. I help bring you all the latest news and also the occasional feature too. I’ve previously written for publications like HuffPost and i-D after getting my NCTJ Diploma in Multimedia Journalism.