"Stranger Things" Cast Bids Emotional Farewell at Lucca Comics & Games Festival

On October 31, 2025, the creators and cast of the hit Netflix series "Stranger Things" gathered at the Lucca Comics & Games Festival in Italy to bid an emotional farewell to the show's devoted fans.

The Duffer brothers, who created the series, shared that they had known the final scene for the show's fifth and last season for about six or seven years. "Obviously, it's stressful trying to figure out how you want to end the show," said Ross Duffer. "But once we read it through with [the actors], we realized how much it reflected our own experience. And hopefully that emotion that we felt writing it -- and our actors felt performing it -- is going to come through to the audience."

The young cast members, including Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, and Noah Schnapp, discussed how their characters have evolved over the course of the series. Wolfhard, who plays Mike Wheeler, said his character has "evolved in a lot of ways that kids and people generally evolve and grow up, but under incredibly weird and sort of disturbing circumstances." Matarazzo, who portrays Dustin Henderson, was "super stoked" about the new challenges the Duffers wrote for him in the final season.

To commemorate the end of the beloved series, Netflix is planning a global goodbye tour across 25 cities and six continents, comprising immersive events, screenings, and experiences inspired by the world of "Stranger Things." The Lucca event included a trailer reveal, a fan Q&A, and an immersive "Stranger Things" pavilion. This will be followed by an exclusive fan screening of the first episode of Season 5 in London on November 13.