Stranger Things pitch was E.T. with John Carpenter tunes!
It's the tale of a small town in rural Indiana in 1983, and the really odd stuff which happens when a young boy goes missing. Creators Matt and Ross Duffer previously worked on Wayward Pines and a feature called Hidden but this show sees them really land, especially as they wrote every episode and directed half of the eight in the first series.
We spoke to the twins over the phone a couple of months back, where they talked about putting together a pitching document for the series to talk to Netflix. It included some Spielberg footage with a very unique twist:
