Stranger Things 3: Scorched Earth

April 28, 2022 (Part 3)

May 30, 2022 (Part 4)

July 19, 2022 (Part 5)

December 23, 2022 (Full Film)

Hans Zimmer

Steve Jablonsky

Junkie XL

Bear McCreary

Alan Silvestri

Michael Giacchino

Gustavo Santaolalla

Greg Edmonson

***Stranger Things 3: Scorched Earth*** is a live-action LEGO film featuring the Netflix Stranger Things characters, written, directed, filmed, and edited by BogleBlocks Pictures. It is the third and final installment in BogleBlocks Pictures' Stranger Things film series and sequel to Stranger Things 2: Divided. It is his primary project of 2022.

One year after the events of the second film, the protagonists ready themselves for the eventual invasion of the Upside Down. Soon, everything falls apart, as a gate is opened and the Mind Flayer wreaks havoc in Hawkins, and the whole world, causing the heroes to survive the horrors of a harsh new world, and find a way to put an end to these creatures once and for all. The film draws elements from seasons two through four of the TV Show, while mainly consisting of BogleBlocks Pictures' original story which adapt several of the series' plot points.

Filming began in January 2022, and took place sporadically over the next six months. The film began airing on February 28, 2022, with the release of Part 1, and continued airing from March till the end of the summer. The fifth and final part concluded the film on July 19, 2022. The full movie was released on December 25, 2022.

## Plot

In the spring of 1985, the Russians Grigori, Dimitri, Vitali, and Buricko build a weapon that will open a gate to the Upside Down. Three months later, Eleven, Mike Wheeler, Will Byers, and Lucas Sinclair train their skills for the prophesied Upside Down invasion. Steve Harrington and Billy Tedford get fired from their museum jobs and meet up with Nancy Wheeler and Jonathan Byers who also got fired from their jobs. Dustin Henderson comes back home from summer camp and joins the older teens while Billy leaves on his motorcycle. Marvin Davis visits Jim Hopper at his house to tell him that Dr. Sam Owens and his team have found a possible location of the Russian base. The next day, Hopper and Marvin go pick up Joyce Byers and her boyfriend, Bob Newby, to drive down to Hawkins Lab to get the Russian's location. While on their way, the Russians fully open the gate to the Upside Down and all the creatures spill out. Hopper and his team are attacked and crash. The kids are trapped inside the Byers' house, and the older teens retreat to the old Russian bunker in Mirkwood.

The Demodogs begin killing anyone they see, all the while they are spreading all over the world at a fast rate. Billy Tedford had been killed by falling off his motorcycle and it crushing his face. The Mind Flayer reaches Billy and revives him, only under the condition that he becomes his servant. Billy agrees, and is possessed by the Mind Flayer while also attaining his remarkable healing factor. Will, Mike, Eleven, and Lucas defend themselves in the house while Billy and his army of Demodogs try to break in. Eleven is forced to fight Billy, and after winning, the Byers' house collapses under its own weight, leaving Will distraught. The kids leave and Billy emerges from the rubble. Hopper, Joyce, Marvin, and Bob escape the wreckage of the police cruiser. Hopper gets covered in Demodog blood and notices that other Demodogs don't see him. The four make their way into Hawkins Lab for safety. Steve, Nancy, Jonathan, and Dustin find the machine thats opening the gate and destroy it, causing the gate to close. They hear the Russians enter the bunker and quickly escape down a corridor. Soon after they are attacked by the Russians. The teens escape the undergound and hide in the trees. The Russians give up their search and leave. At the lab, Grigori snipes the windows and draws the attention of a nearby herd of Demodogs, leaving everyone trapped inside the building. Soon after, they see some people trying to enter the building, and it is revealed to be Martin Brenner and O'Branovich, along with several Russian and Hawkins soldiers, who were left behind in Warsaw a year prior.

Hopper holds Brenner at gunpoint and tells him to leave, still feeling some animosity towards him for his past actions. However, O'Branovich sticks up for Brenner, and tells Hopper that he pulled his weight in helping them get out of Warsaw. Hopper allows him to stay for the time being and tries to find a solution to the herd problem. Eleven, Lucas, Will, and Mike walk down the streets of Hawkins, seeing piles of corpses the Demodogs have left in their wake. Lucas gets an idea to cut Will and Eleven's hair to make them less recognizable because Billy and the Mind Flayer are after them to kill them. The kids see the Mind Flayer and decide their best course of action is to head for Hawkins Lab. Nancy, Dustin, Jonathan, and Steve decide to go to an abandoned power station on the outskirts of town to seek refuge. After getting in and dealing with a squatter, the group is successful with turning the power back on and uses the station as their base of operations. The lab group studies the herd and realize they need weapons from their armory to clear them out. The armory is past the herd and they use the blood trick to get past them. The Demodog blood acts as camouflage, so if you're covered with it, they can't see you. Hopper, Joyce, Marvin, Bob, and Brenner all volunteer to walk through the herd. On their way through the herd, Brenner fires his gun at a Demodog, alerting the herd and breaking the disguise. In an attempt to save Joyce from being mauled, Bob pushes her out of the way and is instead attacked and eaten alive. Hopper, Joyce, Brenner, and Marvin all make it into the armory and Hopper threatens to shoot Brenner for Bob's death. He instead lowers his gun, forcing him to live with what he's done. Joyce breaks down into Hopper's arms and Hopper's hatred for Brenner is stronger than ever. The kids sleep in the junkyard for the night, not knowing that more flayed residents of Hawkins, lead by Billy, surround their location.

Billy and the flayed grab the kids and prepare to kill Eleven and Will, but they fight back and end up overpowering them with the tools in the junkyard. Lucas throws his axe into Billy's heart, incapacitating him for the time. The Mind Flayer attacks soon after, but the kids manage to evade him as Eleven rips off one of his legs. The kids overhear a broadcast from Steve and start heading to the power station to regroup with them. Hopper and his team use an APC with two mounted .50 caliber machine guns to clear out the herd. After successfully doing so, Vitali, Buricko, and Dimitri arrive. Hopper talks to them and instead of wanting to attack, the Russians want to help, having enough of Grigori and his plans. On their way to the power station, Lucas, Eleven, Mike, and Will are attacked once again by Billy. Nancy and Jonathan come to their rescue and shoots him in the head. Rather then leave him out there to revive, they take Billy and imprison him in a cell in the power station. The kids reunite with Dustin and Nancy reunites with Mike. Grigori himself eventually arrives on the lab's doorstep, seeing his herd plan failed. Hopper and Brenner finally say what's on their mind to each other, and Hopper gives Brenner a small amount of trust and lets him join to confront Grigori. Grigori reveals he brought a sample of the D-Virus in a syringe and a battle ensues beginning with the death of Buricko, with Hopper, Joyce, Marvin, and Brenner against Grigori. Grigori uses an RPG lying on the ground to shoots down the top part of the lab and have rubble fall in front of the doors, preventing reinforcements. Grigori soon knocks Joyce and Marvin out of the fight, and also mortally wounds Brenner with his gun, leaving him and Hopper in a one on one fight. Hopper injures Grigori and almost kills him with his knife, but before he can, Grigori stabs Hopper with the syringe, infecting him with the D-Virus. Hopper falls to the ground. Grigori gets up and before he can finish Hopper off, he is shot in the head by Joyce, finally being put to an end. Brenner dies from his gunshot wounds while surrounded by Hopper, Joyce, and Marvin, with Hopper making one last promise to him. Hopper tells Joyce and Marvin he's been infected and Owens tells them the location of Joyce's kids. With his life now on the clock, Hopper leads Joyce and Marvin to the power station with the APC.

Hopper, Marvin, and Joyce have a run-in with three bandits who take their stuff and prepare to take their lives. Before they can, Marvin kills one of them stealthfully and blows up the other two with their last RPG. They eventually arrive at the power station and the whole group is now reunited. Joyce embraces her sons and Hopper reunites with Eleven. He tells her about Brenner and his bravery, fulfilling the promise he made. The crew at the lab radios Hopper and tells him that the government has called off a nuke on Hawkins if they can kill the Mind Flayer quickly. The group divises a final plan to kill the Mind Flayer and they set it into action. Joyce and Marvin use the APC to kill the Demodog army, Jonathan, Nancy, and the kids set explosive near exposed gas pipes, and Hopper and Eleven wait for the Mind Flayer so she can fight it one on one. Steve stays behind to watch over Billy, who soon wakes up and breaks out of his cell. They fight, ultimately resulting in Billy killing Steve. Steve ends up in a purgatory where he destroys the Mind Flayer's representation of a subconscious, bringing him back to life and freeing Billy from possession. Nancy lights the explosives, weakening the Mind Flayer with the fire. Hopper's condition continues to grow, now feeling excruciating pain because of becoming part of the Mind Flayer's hive mind. Marvin evacuates everybody aside from Hopper and Eleven. Eleven engages the Mind Flayer in final duel. The Mind Flayer overpowers her temporarily, but flashing back to all her previous moments of happiness, she summons a rage inside her which helps her open up the Mind Flayer's chest and stop his heart, killing it and all of the other Upside Down life, for good. Hopper and Eleven both collapse inside the burning power station.

Hopper wakes up in a purgatory and sees Bob, Trent Callaghan, Vladimir Stepanov, Brenner, and his daughter Sara. They all ask him to come join them, but Hopper says he can't yet, explaining he hasn't said goodbye. Hopper wakes up in Hawkins Lab. Owens tells him that since the Mind Flayer is dead, the parts of his body that have become Demogorgon are dead as well, but the virus still continues to spread across his body. Knowing his time is near, he calls in everyone he needs to say goodbye to, including Joyce and Eleven. He asks Joyce to take care of Eleven, to which she agrees. He tells Eleven how strong she is, how much he's proud of her, and how much he loves her. Saying goodbye to his loved ones, Marvin comes to put him down. Sara asks Hopper to finally join him, to which he agrees, as Marvin shoots him in the head, killing him. Marvin covers up Hopper's death with a fake one and gives Joyce, Will, Jonathan, and Eleven a place to stay for the time being. One year passes and everyone has continued on with their normal lives. Hopper had his funeral and Marvin was promoted in the FBI. Joyce found a new boyfriend but is still sad over Bob. Survivors across the world were placed in camps and independent settlements. Fertility rates were demanded to spike due to 40% of the world being decimated. Hawkins Lab was forced to shut down in exchange for time to develop a cure for the D-Virus. Hawkins was placed under heavy watch and cameras were placed in everyone's homes. Dimitri and Vitali have gone to Germany. Eleven's powers were kept a secret so the government wouldn't take her away. Will states they are about to start school again and states that stranger things have happened, ending the film.

## Characters

### Protagonists

* Jim Hopper
* Eleven/Jane Hopper
* Will Byers
* Mike Wheeler
* Lucas Sinclair
* Dustin Henderson
* Joyce Byers
* Jonathan Byers
* Nancy Wheeler
* Steve Harrington
* Marvin Davis
* Sam Owens
* Alexei
* Sergeant O'Branovich
* Billy Tedford (non-possessed)
* Martin Brenner
* Bob Newby
* Chester
* Owens' Militiamen

### Antagonists

* The Mind Flayer
* Demodogs
* Grigori Stepanov
* Billy Tedford (possessed)
* Dimitri
* Buricko
* Vitali
* Bandit Leader
* Bandit 1
* Bandit 2
* The Squatter

## Deaths

List of characters that die in the film. List is in order of death.

* Various Hawkins Residents - Torn apart by Demodogs
* Various Demodogs - Various ways
* Various Hawkins Militiamen - Various ways
* Impaled Soldier - Shot in the face by Nancy Wheeler *(Out of Mercy)*
* The Squatter - Suicide via gunshot wound to the head
* Bob Newby - Devoured by Demodogs
* Buricko - Shot in the head by Grigori *(Accidentally)*
* Grigori Stepanov- Shot in the head by Joyce Byers
* Martin Brenner - Shot in the chest by Grigori and later bleeds out
* Bandit 1 - Strangled by Marvin Davis
* Bandit Leader - Blown up by RPG by Marvin Davis
* Bandit 2 - Blown up by RPG by Marvin Davis
* The Mind Flayer - Heart stopped by Eleven
* Jim Hopper - Shot in the head by Marvin Davis *(Out of Mercy)*

## Connections

### Season 2

* The dialogue when Bob calls himself a superhero is similar to the dialogue in episode 16 of the TV Show "The Mind Flayer"
* Bob's death resembles his death in episode 16 "The Mind Flayer"
* The final battle between Eleven and the Mind Flayer takes some inspiration from when she closes the gate in episode 17 "The Gate".

### Season 3

* Dustin and Steve's relationship is very similar to the relationship that was established throughout the entire season.
* The opening scene where the Russians build the portal machine is similar to the opening scene of episode 18 "Suzie, Do You Copy?"
* The Mind Flayer possessing Billy is based off of the same scene in episode 19 "The Mall Rats" when Billy is possessed.
* The scenes in the corridor with Dustin, Steve, Jonathan, and Nancy are heavily based off the scenes in episode 22 "The Flayed" when Dustin, Steve, Robin, and Erica explore the Russian underground and the green liquid.
* The scene where Billy fights Eleven is heavily based off the scene where they fight in the sauna in episode 20 "The Sauna Test"
* The battle in the courtyard where Grigori fights Hopper is very similar to several fights throughout the season but is mostly influenced by the fight in episode 25 "The Battle of Starcourt".
* Grigori's speech before he is killed is the same as Billy's speech to Eleven in episode 23 "E Pluribus Unum"
* The scene where Billy pleads to Steve while he's trapped in the cell is based off of the scene in episode 20 "The Sauna Test" where he pleads to Max to let him out of the sauna.

### Season 4

* The final ending scene is inspired by the group reuniting with their families in episode 34 "The Piggyback".

## Trivia

* This film has the least amount of deaths of Hawkins Soldiers out of any of the films.
* BogleBlocks Pictures has confirmed himself that Mike, Lucas, and Chester would not have survived if they didn’t have Will or Eleven with them.
* The blood trick is derived from the walker guts trick from *The Walking Dead,* where characters smear themselves with walker guts to blend in with them.
* Hopper was originally planned to die way back when filming the first film. The film series has been building up and getting everything ready for his death since then.
* Hopper dies in the films where as he doesn't die in the show.
	+ The opposite happens with Billy. Billy dies in the show but lives in the films.
* The nuke situation is based off of the game *Resident Evil 3,* where Raccoon City will be nuked and the protagonists have to buy time to save their city. Unlike the Hawkins, Raccoon City is not saved and ends up being blown up.