'Stranger Things' have happened: How the Duffer bros. many failures led to this
LOS ANGELES — When Netflix’s spooky sci-fi ****** Stranger Things became the talk of the summer, it seemed like sibling creators Matt and Ross Duffer arrived in the blink of an eye.*
Except for one thing … the Duffers didn’t come out of **where. In fact, they’ve been on my radar for nearly a decade, thanks to a mutual friend who witnessed their rise.*
When I first moved to Los Angeles, I worked as an intern for The Girl Next Door director Luke Greenfield, spending most of my days swapping far-fetched Hollywood dreams with a young Chapman University film student named Sam Winkler. Far-fetched, that is, until the following year, when he started talking about a short film titledEater that he was making with two of his standout classmates — twin brothers from **rth Carolina named Matt and Ross Duffer. Read more...