The creators of new Netflix series Stranger Things have revealed it nearly wasn't made after a number of TV executives rejected their proposals for the show.
Twin brothers Matt and Ross Duffer pitched the programme to various networks having made the assumption the streaming service would only commission established names like Jenji Kohan (Orange Is The New Black) and David Fincher (House Of Cards).
The pair approximate they were rejected between 15 and 20 times, while they told Rolling Stone some execs didn't like the idea of having four children as the show's lead characters when the target audience wasn't other children.
"'You either gotta make it into a kids show or make it about this Hopper [detective] character investigating paranormal activity around town'," Matt Duffer said one executive told them. He countered: "Then we lose everything interesting about the show."
He added: "There was a week where we were like, 'This isn't going to work because people don't get it'."
Contacts who understood their ideas for Stranger Things then put them in touch with Netflix, with whom they ended up producing the show.
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