Stranger Things: we know a little more about the origins of Vecna ​​thanks to these images! – News Series

After a first teaser unveiled in 2023 to announce the arrival of the play Stranger Things in London, Netflix has this time put online a full trailer for The First Shadow, to accompany the “release” of the show on Broadway.

While this will only interest a handful of fans of the science fiction series, who will be able to see this piece as early as April 2025 in New York, the images published on social networks are still worth a look. Its action takes place 25 years before the events of Stranger Things, as the synopsis indicates:

“Hawkins, 1959: an ordinary town with ordinary problems. Young Jim Hopper's car won't start, Bob Newby's sister doesn't take her radio show seriously, and Joyce Maldonado just wants to graduate and get the hell out of town. When new student Henry Creel arrives, his family discovers that starting over isn't so easy…and the shadows of the past are very long-reaching.”

At the origins of evil

This prequel is indeed centered on the one who will become the big bad of the series: Vecna. But before controlling the world upside down, Henry was a tortured young boy who let himself be consumed by his power. And the trailer shows us how much he tried to fight this dark part of himself.

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While the play – directed in part by Stephen Daldry (The Crown) – will contain unpublished images, Netflix subscribers will be able to recognize in these images key scenes from the Netflix series such as the moment when Henry introduces himself to Eleven. The First Shadow promises to be particularly ambitious, with a grandiose and immersive staging, and sets faithful to those of the series.

And to hope to see this with your own eyes, you will have to cross the Atlantic…