Matt and Ross Duffer, aka the Duffer Brothers, will likely be forever tied to their hit Netflix show, Stranger Things (pictured above). With that series eventually coming to end with the upcoming fifth season, however, the duo are setting their sights on other projects.
One of those projects is The Boroughs, which the Duffers are executive producing in tandem with the creators of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.
During their appearance at SCAD TVfest (via Collider), Ross shared that the upcoming Netflix sci-fi series “has a lot of DNA of Stranger Things, except it’s set at a retirement community” in New Mexico. He added that the project came about from their love of The Dark Crystal. “I went to the puppet guys, and I was like ‘Do you have any other ideas?’ and they said ‘I had this old person idea’ and I said ‘That sounds great!’ And that happened, like, really fast.”
The Boroughs isn’t the first sci-fi project set in a retirement home, of course. Back in 1985, Ron Howard directed Cocoon, where a bunch of retirees get rejuvenated through some extraterrestrial mojo. That movie, according to the Duffers, is very hard to find right now due to rights issues. The world is lesser for it.
The good news for us, however, is that we can at least currently watch the trailer to Cocoon while we wait for the next season of Stranger Things and/or The Boroughs to premiere on Netflix. To that end, I’ve included the Cocoon trailer below, for your enjoyment.
