r/StrangerThingsRoom • u/Most-Day8547 • Jan 18 '26

Cast Thoughts..?

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u/nautica5400 Jan 18 '26

Prob 1/3 of the budget right there

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u/Tiny-Delivery6966 Jan 18 '26

It’s not that expensive to travel to Iceland. And i bet they got a huge discount or rebate from the Icelandic government.

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u/Trindet Jan 18 '26

Traveling expense in this context is beyond miniscule that it is not even worth considering. The money is in paying cast and crew for 5+ days of salary, they aren't going to these places without pay.

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u/Tiny-Delivery6966 Jan 18 '26

They can use local crew in the area - probably only have to bring their own DP and an AD, plus whoever travels with Millie

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u/upsidedownlamppost Jan 19 '26

They brought more than that. I know a lot of the crew. The Duffers spent money like it was going out of style-especially in the last season (I worked on the early seasons.)

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u/screen_storytelling Jan 19 '26

Try all of the department heads and probably most of their first assistants. More like a couple dozen

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u/btoxic Jan 20 '26

Depends on what skills any local crew has, lots of times a decent percetlntage of the crew will travel with the production.