The third season of the hit Netflix series, Stranger Things, ended with an explosive finale that found David Harbour’s beloved Jim Hopper disappearing without a trace.
We were always interested in that idea of the Gandalf resurrection – Gandalf the Grey who fights the Balrog and then becomes Gandalf the White.
According to Harbour, this element of change and evolution is something that will absolutely apply to Hopper in the show’s fourth season.
David Harbour even likens Hopper’s resurrection to that of Lord of the Rings hero, Gandalf, who made a similar sacrifice to the Stranger Things character before returning a changed and even more powerful wizard.