An official cast list hasn’t been released just yet, however some of our favourites are likely to return including Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven), Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler), Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin Henderson), Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas Sinclair), Noah Schnapp (Will Byers) and Sadie Sink (Max Mayfield).

Other characters who will likely return for the final season are Jamie Campbell Bower as Vecna, David Harbour as Jim Hopper, Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers, Natalia Dyer as Nancy Wheeler, Charlie Heaton as Jonathan Byers and Maya Hawke as Robin Buckley.

And there will be a few new faces too. The Terminator actor Linda Hamilton is the first new addition to be confirmed for the season five cast, even though her role remains unknown for now.

Netflix’s Stranger Things season 5: everything we know so far