Sources say “Stranger Things” Season 3 will see the show's stars earning up to 10 times more per episode than they did in Season 1 of the wildly successful Netflix series.
Adults David Harbour and Winona Ryder are making $350,000 per episode for Season 3, while the show’s younger stars Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, and Noah Schnapp will get $250,000 per episode, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Fourteen-year-old Millie Bobby Brown, who plays the mysterious Eleven, negotiated her salary separately and may be making somewhere between the $250,000 her other young co-stars are getting and the $350,000 the adults are making, sources speculated, THR reported.
Older teens Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, and Joe Keery, who are less central to the story, are making about $150,000 per episode each.
The actors were given bonuses of about $60,000 each after the series became a huge hit, THR reported, but the kids were only making about $20,000 to 25,000 per episode for the first two seasons of the show.
"Stranger Things," which is set in the 1980s, plays on the nostalgia of the time period and injects a good bit of horror into the plot, chronicling a small town’s experiences with the invasion of another dimension into their reality.
Its success has led to merchandising deals and other movie roles for many of its stars including Brown, Wolfhard, and Dyer, THR reported. Harbour recently landed the “Hellboy” reboot, and Ryder has made a comeback after years of stagnation.
Netflix did not comment on the stars' salary negotiations, Deadline reported.
Season 3 of "Stranger Things" will jump ahead a year from where Season 2 ended and will include new forces of evil, Deadline reported.
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