Stranger Things season 4: Everything You Need to Know About the Release Date, Trailer, and Cast

Stranger Things returns to Netflix with its long-awaited fourth season after a two-year layoff. 

The movie shows Jim Hopper in a Russian detention camp, Joyce and the Bryce family in California after the Battle of Starcourt, and Eleven still without her powers in a new video released Tuesday (12 April). 

A terrifying humanoid monster is introduced hanging in the Upside Down at the end of the trailer and is shown to be the one narrating the film, declaring at the end: "It's time." "You have been defeated." 

Everything we know about the new season is included below. 

When will the fourth season be released? 

There will be two sections to the next season: Volume 1 will be released on May 27th, and Volume 2 will be available on Netflix on July 1st. 

Who will come back? 

Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven), David Harbour (Jim Hopper), Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler), Winona Ryder (Joyce Byers), Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin Henderson), Noah Schnapp (Will Byers), Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas Sinclair), Max Mayfield (Max Mayfield), Joe Keery (Steve Harrington), Natalia Dyer (Nancy Wheeler), Charlie Heaton (Jonathan Byers) (Dr Brenner) 

Dacre Montgomery, whose character Billy died in the third season, is noticeably absent. 

Who are the new members of the cast? 

Jamie Campbell Bower (Peter Ballard), Josephine Quinn (Eddie Munson), Eduardo Franco (Argyle), Sherman Augustus (Lt Colonel Sullivan), Mason Dye (Jason Carver), Nikola Djuricko (Yuri), Tom Wlaschiha (Dmitri), Myles Truitt (Patrick), Regina Ting Chen (Ms Kelly), Chrissy Van Dien (Chrissy), Logan Riley Bruner (Fred Benson), Logan Allen (Victor Creel). 

What will the fourth season be about? 

"It's been six months since the Battle of Starcourt, which terrorized and destroyed Hawkins," the season's official logline states. Our group of friends is struggling with the repercussions for the first time, and navigating the difficulties of high school hasn't made things any easier." A new and terrifying supernatural menace emerges at this most vulnerable period, posing a horrible puzzle that, if answered, could ultimately put an end to the Upside Down's atrocities." 

Stranger Things season four will be released on Netflix in two parts: Volume 1 will be available on May 27th, and Volume 2 will be available on July 1st.

Source: independent.co.uk