Stranger Things star Matt Modine wants to return as Martin Brenner in season 5
Sarah Richards
Published Jan 13, 2026
While certain fans are as yet moving past the More peculiar Things season 4 finale and others are caught up with making More unusual Things 5 hypotheses, one of the most well known characters from the show needs a way back into the undeniably exhilarating universe of the show. The well known Netflix show, which is maybe likewise Netflix’s best venture to date, has a skill for causing some profound hurt by killing off fan-most loved characters like Sean Astin’s Weave and Quinn’s Eddie Munson.
The show likewise killed off Dr. Martin Brenner (played by Matt Modine), perhaps of the most un-affable person, before More peculiar Things season 5. Notwithstanding the specialist biting the dust a seriously convenient passing in the fight with Vecna, entertainer Matt Modine trusts that there is some way his personality can get back to the hit show for the last season.
More peculiar Things season 5 recording ought to start in May 2023, implying that the greater part of the content is now composed. Yet, there might in any case be an ideal opportunity to bring back Dr. Martin Brenner here and there, to some degree in an appearance.
In a new meeting with Radio Times, Matt Modine uncovered that he was eager to get back to his previous job in the famous Netflix show, regardless of whether it was not in a similar skin as he depicted it beforehand.
After the past season’s finale, his personality was killed off. Modine, nonetheless, keeps on accepting that his persona could possibly be restored in some design. In the meeting, Modine said:
“I wish I knew, I love Millie Bobby Brown, I love [creators] the Duffer brothers, and [producer] Shawn Duty and it was a particularly great show to go to deal with, it was fun each day that I chipped away at the show….I trust that there’s a viable method for reviving Dr. Brenner and placed him in season 5 since being essential for the last season would be superb,.”
is there room for one more in this embrace
— Stranger Things (@Stranger_Things) November 6, 2022
While Dr. Brenner might be one of the most un-lucky, the fifth season will involve many returning entertainers from the past season. They incorporate Winona Ryder, David Harbor, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Maya Hawke, Priah Ferguson, Cara Buono, Brett Gelman, Jamie Campbell Arbor, and Eduardo Franco, among others.
Shawn Duty and The Duffer Brothers will likewise get back to coordinate the majority of the episodes of More abnormal Things season 5.
The past four times of More interesting Things are presently accessible on Netflix.