The trial is currently scheduled to begin in May; the third season of Stranger Things premieres on Netflix on July 4, 2019.
The judge in the case ruled that the Duffers’ arguments that they came up with the Stranger Things concepts years earlier “lack verifying evidence of the originality of their idea.”
A lawsuit over one of Netflix’s biggest TV series appears headed to trial.
Charlie Kessler asserts that he met the Duffers, then two young filmmakers whom Kessler never had heard of, and chatted with them for ten to fifteen minutes.