#bc tht was when my friend was in the midst of getting ready for his upcoming off-broadway parody musical of stranger things’ run to start

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abt the play, do you think it has to do with the WGA strike? like is this a way for them to currently work on content that isn’t under amptp

So like, TFS has definitely ended up as a way for them to work on stuff currently during the strike, but I'm almost certain that happened by chance rather than being the plan all along considering the actual timeline of events with the strike/information we’ve gotten about the play:

The Duffers announced back in July 2022 that they were going to be producing live theatre related to Stranger Things, and The First Shadow was announced in March 2023. The WGA voted to authorize a strike in April 2023, and the strike began in May 2023.

And like, here’s the thing. I have little doubt that by March when they announced TFS, the Duffers & other writers/members of the WGA were well aware that the possibility of a strike was looming on the horizon.

BUT. Writing and producing a new play is a big involved and time consuming endeavor even when on a small scale! So when it’s with something like this that is going to get lots of attention and have lots of moving pieces and be part of an intricate larger story because it’s related to fucking Stranger Things? That’s something that was absolutely already being worked on well before we ever found out about it (and again, while we didn’t know specifics until earlier this year, we did know there would be some form of stage play literally a whole year ago now) and thus well before the WGA strike was even close to an established plan of action.