But when it’s filtered through Jeff Nichols so it’s unmistakably a Jeff Nichols movie. He was obviously very much inspired by the same guys we were. I was thinking a lot about - it was funny because I went a month or so ago and saw Midnight Special, which Jeff Nichols did, and I was thinking about that because it was weird - he has a child with powers and nosebleeds and we were doing the same thing simultaneously. It was like “We love Stephen King and we love Spielberg and John Carpenter and we love Silent Hill” and so we were trying to infuse it with all the things that we love. When we were writing it, honestly, we weren’t thinking about it so much. And it was really cool but also really scary because then you’re being compared to stuff that is iconic. I didn’t realize that was going to happen until that first trailer came out. Was it hard for you guys to make sure you had those references but were also telling your story? Matt Duffer: This is probably just us being naive but I wasn’t expecting so much of the focus to be on the references.
There’s the other version where people are like “it’s just an echo,” but it didn’t feel that way. IGN: The inclusion of the homages and references has gone over so well, but of course it's a fine line. So it’s just exciting and crazy that people responded like they did. Because really, we were such a small bubble and it was such a small team that was making the show. When we made the show and came up with it we were like “If we could make any show we wanted to see, what would it be?” This is what we came up with but it was always very personal and catered to our own taste and so it’s such a relief and so exciting that it appealed to all these other people. It’s been a whirlwind for sure and I think it’s bizarre, but in the best way.
I remember waking up Friday morning to all these tweets of people that had finished the show already. We turned in the last visual effects shot, walked away and then reviews and then a week later, it was all on and everybody was watching it.
We just finished it, and I think like two days later reviews started coming out. We’ve never had anything go into the world like this.
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