![]() And, as the star of The Princess Bride, Elwes fits nicely into the show’s tradition of casting performers from beloved 80s classics.ĭetails about the third season remain hard to come by, but we know that it will pick up one year later in 1985 and that we can expect a lot of Back To The Future references… Slick politicians and people with questionable morals are very much in Elwes and Busey’s respective wheelhouses (we all remember hating Elwes’ character on The X-Files and Busey has been destroying the scenery on the From Dusk Till Dawn TV series). Meanwhile, Busey will star as Bruce, “a journalist for the The Hawkins Post with questionable morals and a sick sense of humour.” Elwes will play Mayor Kline: “Handsome, slick, and sleazy, Mayor Kline is your classic 80s politician - more concerned with his own image than with the people of the small town he governs.” the Stranger Things version of “Here’s Johnny!” The creepy way in which Bruce chases Nancy through the hospital while calling after her also brings to mind Jack’s hunt for Wendy (Shelley Duvall) in The Shining.Casting for Stranger Things Season 3 continues to ramp up, as two familiar genre faces have joined the hit Netflix series.Ĭary Elwes ( The Princess Bride, Saw) and Jake Busey ( Starship Troopers, Identity) have signed on to join the third season. We get another door scene connection when a flayed Bruce (Jake Busey) punches through the window of the hospital room door in pursuit of Nancy and Jonathan, and greets them with a menacing, “Hi there,” a.k.a. ![]() The Duffers even told actor Dacre Montgomery that they wanted a villain like Jack Torrance when they cast him in the role of Billy. In the next episode, the moment when Billy smashes through the glass window of the sauna door and tries to attack Max with a shard of tile is reminiscent of Jack’s (Jack Nicholson) infamous door breakdown in The Shining. When El tries to find out what happened to Heather using her telepathic powers, the way the red door to Heather’s house materializes in her vision looks a lot like the Shining scene when blood bursts out of the elevator doors, except in reverse. The Duffer Brothers’ homage to Stephen King continues with yet another nod to The Shining. The sailor-inspired uniform Steve is forced to wear while working at Scoops Ahoy - complete with hair-ruining hat - also brings to mind the pirate garb that Fast Times‘ Brad Hamilton (Judge Reinhold) must sport for his job at Captain Hook Fish and Chips. In one final nod to Cates, in the finale, Steve knocks over a cardboard cutout of her Fast Times character while interviewing for a job at Family Video. Of course, the rest of the group finds this claim difficult to believe. ![]() Later, Dustin insists that his girlfriend from Camp Know Where, Suzie, is hotter than Phoebe Cates. The scene is a gender-flipped recreation of the iconic Fast Times dream sequence in which Phoebe Cates’ Linda Barrett emerges from the pool in a red bikini to the same song. In the season’s first episode, Zac Efron lookalike Billy (Dacre Montgomery) struts by a group of eager Hawkins housewives - including Mike’s mom, Karen Wheeler (Cara Buono) - at the pool in nothing but a red bathing suit as The Cars’ “Moving In Stereo” plays. ![]() It doesn’t take long for the parallels with Fast Times to come into play. ![]()
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