Now, thanks to a brooding teaser released by Netflix on Friday, we know who that mysterious prisoner is. It's none other than Detective Hopper, back from the dead, apparently. The preview shows a line of rugged workers laboring on who knows what, and turns out one of them is Hopper, who went full 2017 Chris Pine and buzzed his hair off. So, yes it looks like Stranger Things 4 is going full Rocky IV and setting part of its story in Russia.

Though no exact date has been shared just yet, we can likely expect it sometime in 2020. Netflix shared the news with a teaser that also included the tagline "We're Not in Hawkins Anymore," which appears to be a nod to where things left off in.



To begin Season Four with the Byers and Eleven living outside of Hawkins, with Eleven still missing her powers, and Hopper in Russia makes for a much more interesting premise than the sameness we saw in Season Three.