Finn Wolfhard says he surprised the 'Stranger Things' creators by correctly guessing their spinoff idea
- Finn Wolfhard said he correctly guessed the plot of a possible "Stranger Things" spinoff.
- He said on "The Tonight Show" that he was joking with the crew about what a spinoff could look like.
Finn Wolfhard said he accidentally guessed the idea for a "Stranger Things" spinoff while joking about the future of the show on set.
Wolfhard, who stars in the hit Netflix series as Mike Wheeler, appeared on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on Wednesday to promote his new film, "When You Finish Saving the World."
Wolfhard said he came up with an idea for a "Stranger Things" spinoff and shocked the show's creators, the Duffer brothers, because it was an idea they were already considering.
"So we were on set filming 'Stranger Things 4,' and we were all talking about if there's going to be" a spinoff, Wolfhard said. "Like, joking: 'Oh, they're all going to have us back in 20 years. We're all going to be fat and old and being like, "Oh, Evan, where are you?"'"
He added, without revealing his grand idea: "And then I was like, 'Oh, but, if you guys are actually going to do a spinoff, it should be this.'"
Wolfhard said Matt and Ross Duffer looked at each other and then at him before pulling him aside for a chat.
Wolfhard recalled: "They were like: 'That is the idea. Who told you?' I was like, 'No one.' They were like: 'What do you mean? You just, like, came up with it?' And I was like, 'Well, no, I just thought that that would be a cool way to kind of expand.' And they were like, 'It is.'"
Wolfhard said the Duffers told him to keep the idea to himself.
Last year, the Duffer brothers said they planned to create a spinoff series and stage play set within the "Stranger Things" world.
In May, they told Variety that only Wolfhard knew their idea for the spinoff.
"We do have an idea for a spinoff that we're super excited about … but we haven't told anyone the idea yet, much less written it," the Duffer brothers wrote in an email to the publication. "We think everyone — including Netflix — will be surprised when they hear the concept, because it's very, very different. But somehow Finn Wolfhard — who is one crazy smart kid — correctly guessed what it was going to be about. But aside from Finn, no one else knows!"
They said later on the podcast "Happy Sad Confused" that the spinoff would be "1,000% different" from the original series and wouldn't focus on existing characters.