Stranger Things 4 teaser trailer reveals Hopper is alive

Netflix has revealed a teaser for the all-new episodes 
Tom Herbert|Emma Clarke14 February 2020

After months of anticipation, the trailer for Stranger Things season four has finally been released.

And we've got some pleasing news for fans of the series as the trailer reveals that police chief Jim Hopper is alive and...sort of well.

It's not all good news for the American, who appears to be imprisoned far from his beloved Hawkins, Indiana in the snowy wastelands of the Russian peninsula Kamchatka.

In September last year, Netflix confirmed the wildly successful sci-fi show would return for a fourth series - however, they teased: "We're not in Hawkins anymore."

He's back: Hopper is alive and well(-ish)
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The third season dropped us right back into the thick of the action in 1984, as the Mind Flayer attempted to take over Hawkins.

The finale then ended on a massive cliffhanger, with viewers desperate to learn the fate of their favourite anti-hero, police chief Hopper.

Fans soon started theorising about whether Hopper was alive or dead, throwing out some pretty impressive theories.

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One of the most convincing was that Hopper must be alive because, although we saw a huge explosion, we didn't technically see his body - nor was there the same residue that was left over when a group of Russians were obliterated earlier in the series.

At the very end, in a cryptic, Marvel-esque post-credits scene, viewers also saw Russian soldiers walk down a dingy corridor in what looked like a prison.

One of the officers then reached for the door of one to the cells, before the other said: "No, not the American."

Naturally, Hopper fans desperately wanted to believe that he was still alive and was in fact the hostage - and the trailer confirms that.

Unveiling the clip, Netflix teased: "He [Hopper] is imprisoned far from home in the snowy wasteland of Kamchatka, where he will face dangers both human...and other.

"Meanwhile, back in the states, a new horror is beginning to surface, something long buried, something that connects everything."

While the release date for the new series has not been confirmed, filming is well underway.

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