Rebel Robin: Stranger Things Prequel Podcast & Book Announced

June 9, 2021

Ahead of Stranger Things’ upcoming fourth season, a brand new six-episode fiction podcast series and book centering on Maya Hawke’s character Robin has been announced.

The podcast, titled Rebel Robin: Surviving Hawkins, will be written and directed by Lauren Shippen, Hawke, and Sean Maher. The podcast will focus on Robin and her favorite teacher, Mr. Hauser, as they meet regularly to discuss philosophy, books, friendship, independence, and more. A coming of age story about the struggle of being different in a small town, Surviving Hawkins will explore how learning to be ourselves is truly the bravest thing we can do because it brings out the scariest monster of all: the judgment of other people.

Alongside the podcast, a new Young Adult Novel, Stranger Things: Rebel Robin, is being written by acclaimed author A.R. Capetta and will be published by Random House Books for young readers ages 14 and up. The book will focus on the beginning of Robin’s sophomore year in high school. Her “Odd Squad” group of friends think that it’s time for them to fit in, but Robin doesn’t know exactly how she can be her true self in the small town of Hawkins, Indiana.

Stranger Things is set in the 1980s in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana. When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.

Season 4 will introduce a number of new characters including Robert Englund (Nightmare on Elm Street) as Victor Creel, Jamie Campbell Bower (Sweeney Todd) as Peter Ballard, Eduardo Franco (Booksmart) as Argyle, and Joseph Quinn (Catherine the Great) as Eddie Munson, who are set as series regulars. Meanwhile, Sherman Augustus (Into the Badlands) as Lt. Colonel Sullivan, Mason Dye (Bosch) as Jason Carver, Nikola Djuricko (Legends) as Yuri, and Tom Wlaschiha (Game of Thrones) as Dmitri will be recurring characters.