Stranger Things Star Reveals New Season 2 Details

New details have emerged about the much-anticipated second season of Netflix's sci-fi hit Stranger Things. Actor David Harbour has reiterated how long after Season 1 the new season will take place, and what character actor Sean Astin will be playing.

Speaking at the Fan2Sea Comic Con Cruise, Harbour stated that a year will have past from the events of the first season. "It's a year later in the story, so there are several things that happened last year, like Will has come back," he said, via Hollywood Life. "There are certain people in the town that know what happened, and then certain people that don't know what happened. So there's a lot of fall out with who knows what."

Creators Matt and Ross Duffer first revealed last summer that Season 2 takes place in 1984, which is a year after the first season.

Harbour also hinted at some conflict between his character--Police Chief Hopper--and the new one played Astin. "He's Winona [Ryder]'s new boyfriend--much to the chagrin to the Chief of Police," he said.

In November last year, producer Shawn Levy explained that Season 2's plot will showcase the main characters coming to terms with the events of Season 1. "Will Byers was in that Upside Down for a while," he said. "So Season 2 is about this determined desire to return to normalcy in Hawkins, in the Byers family, in that group of friends, and it's the struggle to reclaim normalcy and maybe the impossibility of it."

Levy will direct two episodes of Stranger Things' second season: chapters three and four. There are going to be nine episodes in all. In addition to his work on Stranger Things, Levy was recently named as the newest director for Sony's long-in-development Uncharted movie.

According to Matt and Ross Duffer, Season 2 will be "darker and weirder" than the first season. It's also been confirmed that Millie Bobby Brown's character, Eleven, is coming back for Season 2.

Stranger Things Season 2 is expected later this year, but currently has no set release date.