Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer (born February 15, 1984 in Durham, North Carolina), known professionally as The Duffer Brothers, are American film and television writers, directors and producers. They are best known for creating the science fiction-horror series Stranger Things. They also wrote and directed the 2015 horror film Hidden, and have written episodes for Wayward Pines.
Interested in filmmaking from a young age, the Duffers moved from their native North Carolina to California to study filmmaking at Chapman University. They are twin brothers, and have had a close relationship since childhood. They work on all of their projects as a duo.
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Life and career
The Duffer brothers were born and raised in Durham, North Carolina. They began making films in the third grade using a Hi8 video camera that was a gift from their parents. They attended the Duke School for Children from grades K-8, a private suburban school, and then matriculated to the Charles E. Jordan High School, a large Durham public school. They relocated to Orange, California to study film at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, where they graduated in 2007. After writing and/or directing a number of short films, their script for the post-apocalyptic horror film, Hidden, was acquired by Warner Bros. Pictures in 2011. The brothers directed the film in 2012, which was released in 2015. Director M. Night Shyamalan read the script and hired them as writer/producers on the Fox television series Wayward Pines.
Stranger Things
From their experience in television, they began pitching their idea for Stranger Things, which Dan Cohen eventually brought to Shawn Levy. With Levy's 21 Laps production company on board, the show was quickly picked up by Netflix. The show is set in 1983 Indiana and is an homage to '80s pop culture, inspired and aesthetically informed by the works of Steven Spielberg, John Carpenter, Stephen King, and George Lucas, among others.
It premiered in the summer of 2016 to excellent reviews, specifically for its characterization, pacing, atmosphere, acting, soundtrack, directing, writing, and homages to 1980s genre films, and subsequently began to develop a cult following online. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave the series an approval rating of 95%, based on 55 reviews, with a weighted average score of 8.1/10. The site's critical consensus states, "Exciting, heartbreaking, and sometimes scary, Stranger Things acts as an addictive homage to Spielberg films and vintage 1980s television." On August 31, 2016, Netflix renewed the series for a second season of nine episodes, which were released on October 27, 2017.
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Filmography
Short films
Feature films
Television
References
External links
- Matt Duffer on IMDb
- Ross Duffer on IMDb
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