EXCLUSIVE: As Netflix gears up for the conclusion of its hit sequence Stranger Issues later this 12 months, Matt and Ross Duffer are eyeing their subsequent challenge.
The Duffer Brothers are growing the Ron Currie novel The Savage, Noble Loss of life of Babs Dionne on the streamer, with the writer and his writing companion Joshua Mohr set to pen the sequence and govt produce. Hilary Leavitt may even EP with the Duffers via their Upside Down Productions.
The crime-thriller facilities on Babs Dionne, a proud Franco-American, doting grandmother, and harsh crime matriarch, who guidelines her small city of Waterville, Maine, with an iron fist. She controls the move of medication into Little Canada with the assistance of her loyal lieutenants, girlfriends since they had been youngsters, and her eldest daughter, Lori, a Marine vet combating dependancy. When a drug kingpin discovers that his numbers are down within the higher northeast, he sends a malevolent pressure, identified solely as The Man, to analyze. On the similar time, Babs’s youngest daughter, Sis, has gone lacking, which doesn’t appear in any respect like a coincidence. In twenty-four hours, Sis will likely be discovered lifeless, and the entire city will search shelter from Babs’s wrath.
The Penguin Random Home title was launched in late March and has made a number of Better of 2025 lists, together with NPR, Amazon, Apple Books, The Guardian, and Barnes & Noble.
Up subsequent for the twins is the discharge of the fifth and closing season of the smash genre-bending sequence Stranger Issues, to drop in three components on Nov. 26, Dec. 25 and Dec. 31. There’s additionally the animated sequence Stranger Issues: Tales From ’85 that exists throughout the “Stranger Issues” Universe at the moment in growth, and a live-action spinoff of the mothership sequence within the works.
Moreover, they produced the supernatural thriller sequence The Boroughs with Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews. It’s slated to premiere in 2026 and stars Alfred Molina, Geena David, Alfre Woodard, and Denis O’Hare, to call a couple of. The Duffer Brothers additionally govt produced Haley Z. Boston’s new psychological horror Netflix sequence, One thing Very Dangerous Is Going To Occur, starring Camila Morrone and Adam DiMarco, set to be launched in 2026. They’re repped by CAA.
Currie is the writer of 4 novels and one assortment of quick tales. He has received the New York Public Library’s Younger Lions Award, the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Library Affiliation’s Alex Award, and the Pushcart Prize. His books have been translated into 15 languages, and his quick fiction and nonfiction have obtained recognition in Greatest American anthologies. As a screenwriter, he labored most not too long ago on the Apple TV+ sequence Extrapolations. He’s repped by Nameless Content material.
Mohr has authored a number of books, together with Damascus and Some Issues that Meant the World to Me, and he’s received the Northern California Guide Award twice. Termite Parade was an editor’s alternative on the New York Occasions Greatest Vendor Checklist. His newest challenge is the Viking Punk Saga trilogy, together with Saint The Terrifying and the not too long ago printed The Wolf Needs Solutions. Mohr is repped by Paradigm.
As a screenwriting workforce, Currie and Mohr have beforehand developed tasks with AMC Studios, Amblin Tv, and ITV America.
