Netflix has released the official teaser, launch date, new images and teaser art for the upcoming animated series Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85. They also announced the casting of Jeremy Jordan as the voice of Steve. 

Return to Hawkins with Stranger Things: Tales From ’85, an exciting new animated series from Showrunner Eric Robles and Executive Producers the Duffer Brothers. In the winter of 1985, snow blankets the town and the horrors of the Upside Down are finally fading. Our heroes Eleven, Mike, Will, Dustin, Lucas, and Max have settled back into a normal life of D&D, snowball fights, and quiet days. But beneath the ice, something terrifying has awakened. Could it be from the Upside Down? From the depths of Hawkins Lab? Or from somewhere else entirely? Our heroes must race to solve this mystery and save Hawkins in this untold story set in the Stranger Things universe.

Here’s our first look, via the teaser trailer:

Quotes from Showrunner/EP Eric Robles:

“We get to spend time with these kids in a way that you did not have time to in the flagship series. We were able to freeze time and really go on these never before told adventures with them in this timeline”.

“We want the audience to feel that these kids are in danger, the stakes are real, and bad things can happen to anyone. And things do happen that are very scary in a sense, so that really makes the danger for the kids that much more tangible.”

ABOUT THE SERIES

• Premieres April 23, 2026
• Showrunner & Executive Producer: Eric Robles
• Executive Producers: Matt and Ross Duffer, along with Hilary Leavitt, via Upside Down Pictures; Shawn Levy via 21 Laps; Dan Cohen
• Animation Studio: Flying Bark Productions
• Cast: Brooklyn Davey Norstedt as Eleven, Jolie Hoang-Rappaport as Max, Luca Diaz as Mike, Elisha “EJ” Williams as Lucas, Braxton Quinney as Dustin, Benjamin Plessala as Will, Brett Gipson as Hopper, Jeremy Jordan as Steve, Odessa A’zion, Janeane Garofalo and Lou Diamond Phillips