David Harbour Uses Jumbotron Appearance To Reassure Stranger Things Fans About Season 4

Actor David Harbour has given an update on Stranger Things Season 4, and the way in which he revealed the update was anything but traditional. Harbour attended a recent New York Knicks basketball game at Madison Square Garden, and being a celebrity, he was spotted and got put onto the jumbotron.

Harbour, sitting next to another Stranger Things star--Noah Schanpp--used the moment to hype up the next season of Stranger Things, which is scheduled to premiere on Netflix this summer. On his phone he displayed a special message for fans: "Stranger Things Season 4 is coming soon, promise."

It's not much of an update, but given that there hasn't been a new run of Stranger Things episodes since 2019, fans are eager for any morsel of news about the next season. So what's taking so long for the next season? Director and producer Shawn Levy told Collider that Season 4 has taken longer than expected due in part to the pandemic and the team's bigger creative ambitions.

"As much as it pains our viewers that it will have been so long, trust me, it pains [creators Matt and Ross Duffer], and I more," Levy said. "It is a kind of perfect storm combination of COVID shutdown, slower pace of filming in COVID protocols and health protocols, which are necessary, and coincidentally we chose Season 4 to be by far--and I mean, by far, far, far--the most ambitious of the seasons."

Winona Ryder, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, and Joe Keery are all returning for Season 4, while there are plenty of newcomers, too.