'Stranger Things' Fan Theories with Joe Keery, Natalia Dyer, Maya Hawke & Joseph Quinn

The kids buy a van,

unmask the evil head of Hawkins lab, and adopt a dog.

It's then revealed that Stranger Things

is simply a Scooby Doo prequel series.

This is my theory!

Wow! [Maya clapping]

[Voiceover] It's time.

[dramatic ominous music]

Hi there, I'm Joe Keery.

I'm Maya Hawke.

I'm Natalia Dyer.

And I'm Joe Quinn.

And we're the cast of Stranger Things,

and we are going to be answering some fan theories

for Vanity Fair.

Paul De Paola's theory is

the whole show is just an elaborate D&D game.

The kids are actually all grown up

and fantasizing about their imagined childhood nightmares.

Love this theory.

[Natalia] Wow. Love This theory.

Great idea.

Who play old versions of them?

That's a great call.

Gotta get Bill Hader for Finn because he did it in It.

Natalie Portman,

they always say that Natalie looks like Millie,

could play the older one. Yeah, that's great.

That's really fun though.

That's a great theory.

Is there a movie that

that is like pretty much the plot

of the movie. Yes, yes.

[Joe] It's kind of like Jumanji,

[Quinn] honestly, right? There it is.

[Joe] Like you're going in and then you're.

Yeah, I wonder if we would be characters playing

that Dungeons and Dragons, or if we would be figments

of their imagination. That's what I was imagining.

I don't think we're... I think we'd be figments.

I think like the core kids

or like those would be the players

and we would just be sort of the bards.

[Natalia] Yeah. Yeah.

I think we'd probably be kind of people

that they encounter in their normal lives.

Like, you'd be like the postman,

you know, how you dream of people...

[Joe] Yeah. Of course.

Okay.

Good luck. [Maya snickering]

Aydnalgl.

Excuse you.

[Quinn snickering] [Joe chuckles]

Aydnalgl. [Joe chuckles]

What?

Aydnalgl, this is their theory.

Eleven will end up being the villain,

whether of her own accord

or under the control of the Mind Flayer.

I'd say this is the most kind of feasible theory.

This feels very classic.

[Maya And Natalia] Yeah. Yeah.

The hardcore killing that happens in the flashback

is pretty maybe indicative of such a thing.

Anime stranger thing's theory is

I'm probably gonna get negative comments,

but I'm gonna list off facts

as to why I think Robin is a Russian spy.

[Joe] Sick. Love it.

[Natalia giggles]

I learned Russian alarmingly quickly,

I guess is one- Oh yeah,

that would be a fact. of possible flags.

I'm fluent in four languages, you know?

Russian?

[Maya speaking Russian]

Appear from nowhere,

I was never a background actor in the earlier seasons

in the school. Just a plant.

[Maya chuckles]

Just a total plant. Yeah, I like the idea.

I also like the idea.

Snoo-22937.

Wow, I've been so focused on the chest hair.

I never realized

that Steve was wearing Eddie's jacket in the sequence,

maybe this could mean Eddie could have sadly died

and Steve wears his jacket as a memorial sort of thing.

Just a theory.

[Natalia chuckles] I don't know.

Astute observation. It is fast.

And it's a very metal dio vest.

Yes, you do have a distracting chest though.

Yep, I had to wax it for season...

[Natalia] One. Whatever.

Do you have to do it twice?

I did it, I did do it.

There's a 40 year old virgin.

Mas Sonia's theory is if you noticed in every season

there's a death of a character

that starts with the letter B.

Interesting, Benny Barbara, Bob and Billy.

The only character remaining is Becky.

Also, we had some scenes with her mom and kali,

the girl with the 008 tattoo.

But the story is not completed I think.

There's a lot of stuff with the mom and the aunt

that like, there's more there, there must be more there.

And it's also interesting

cause your full character's name is Bobbin.

[Natalia chuckles] Oh yeah, that's true.

That's true. So that my plan work.

Bobbin. Good point.

Bobbin Buckley, and my last name is Buckley.

I wonder. Exactly.

I wonder if the brothers know that.

They know but I don't think they did it on purpose.

That's a pretty big coincidence.

Yeah, I'm also curious about the kali girl.

Lot of questions.

Lots of questions.

Shay Wolfie's theory is

I feel like it's possible

that Nancy might die saving Robin's life.

They're going to be together

and paired up for the entire season.

Robin was once Barb's best friend too.

So, I'm sure they're gonna bond over that.

There are a lot of things that are right in there.

Pretty in depth.

And it's very well researched.

It's a great theory, I think.

But it's an excellent theory.

Clearly you read the book.

We never talk about the Barb thing

because that book was written by a different person

not the Duffer brothers

and that actually is not their idea or their theory.

It's sort of a different take on the same character

from another writer.

So, it's not necessarily true in Duffer brother world.

Okay, from Twitter.

Crysteries, Max gets powers

and becomes an avatar sort of person for the Mind Flayer.

[Maya] Pretty unsupported. Man, I don't know.

It could happen, couldn't happen.

That's kind of what happened to...

No one's gotten powers.

[Joe] That kind of happened to William.

[Maya] Yeah. Yeah.

Kind of like that idea. Runs in family.

Runs in the fate.

Yeah, that's cool.

Yeah, that's nice.

Yeah, Billy gets powers, I guess they do.

They just don't use their powers for good.

Okay, Rachel Leishman's theory is

Alexei is also still alive with Hopper

cause Alexei deserved better.

I agree.

I agree.

Yeah. Lovely guy.

Lovely guy.

Can you imagine just being a scientist

and doing your job and then all of a sudden

you just get wrapped up in some stuff like that

and then... [Joe snaps fingers]

Yeah, the shame. Bye, bye.

Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah.

It's Luna Cassidy's theory is,

so my first theory is I definitely have a feeling,

a major character or two is going to die this season.

My list is Steve, Dustin, Nancy, or Max.

In order of preference or?

I don't know, I don't know.

Okay. Dude.

[Joe and Quinn chuckles] So should we just.

I mean, I don't know.

You just don't wanna know. [Natalia snickering]

Yeah, I mean that's always,

it's always a possibility, right?

We're dealing with some pretty crazy things.

Stakes are high.

Stakes are high.

[Maya and Joe speaking gibberish]

[Maya clears throat]

Stranger Emmie there is.

Could there be some elements of time travel next season?

There were several hints of this in the last season

including the obvious back to the future reference.

[Maya humming] He went back in time.

Then why is it called Back to the Future?

Time travel, you say.

Great theory.

Love time travel, cannot confirm or deny.

Fluffy Duckling's theory is

I want poor Steve

to have any kind of screen time with his parents.

He says his dad's an asshole

and his mom is super well respected around town.

Like who are they?

You know, I'll tell you what, I have always wondered.

People have always asked me.

And my dad

has been petitioning the Duffer brothers for years

to be my dad on the show.

[cast snickering]

I think it would be a great opportunity

to just start Pop's career, and it would be great.

Heather Anto's theory is the Upside Down

is just another portal to Middle Earth.

Samwise has gone to return to Frodo, his one true love.

[Joe grunts] I'd love that to be true.

[Maya] Huh? Where?

[Maya] Who Samwise? Who Samwise?

[Joe And Quinn] Oh!

Of course, Bob.

[Quinn] Bob. Oh!

[Joe] That's pretty fun.

[Maya sighs] Man, that was so crazy,

him being on the show.

[Natalia] I was,

such a nice guy. Me and him being like.

From look at this dude's theory.

Max is being possessed

and that Eleven is going to get her powers back.

Of course Steve might die only cause he's laying down

in season four trailer as if he was dead.

This is strong.

[Natalia] This is pretty strong. So strong.

We were all pretty tired though when we were filming.

[Natalia] So, Yeah.

It could just be that.

There were a lot of naps.

I feel like it's about time that there are some deaths.

It's kinda remarkable that we haven't died.

Yeah, it's true.

So they can smell it.

Ozzieoz06888's theory is

Nancy and Jonathan break up.

Jonathan looks kind of stoner-ish in the trailer.

Nancy also did not go to Cali to visit with Mike.

So I'm guessing they probably break up?

That's pretty good.

[cast laughing]

That's pretty good.

Solid, guessing.

To be fair, we really don't even know what's going.

[Maya] Yeah.

[Quinn] But there is some lovely guessing in there.

Mico Escorp's theory is

the Mind Flayer living inside Steve's glorious hair.

[Maya and Natalia snickering]

You never know. Is that how it gets so,

so voluminous. So fluffy.

They should make a moose

[Quin] called Mind Flayer. Mind Flayer moose.

Yeah. It's branding.

Yeah. You welcome Netflix,

and then a cut.

Take that.

What people don't know is that

it's just all a Lego haircut,

and at the end of the day I just go.

[Joe imitating slurping] [Maya and Natalia snickering]

[All] Thank you so much for watching.