Netflix took center stage at Annecy with its Bonlieu-hosted presentation: Next on Netflix Animation. The session featured showrunner Eric Robles introducing the animated spinoff Stranger Things: Tales From ’85.

Netflix’s official logline for the series reads: “Welcome back to Hawkins in the stark winter of 1985, where the original characters must fight new monsters and unravel a paranormal mystery terrorizing their town in Stranger Things: Tales From ’85, an epic new animated series.”

With animation headed by Australian outfit Flying Bark, the show is being executive produced by “Stranger Things” creators Matt and Ross Duffer via their Upside Down Pictures, along with Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen via 21 Laps, Eric Robles, – who is showrunning the series – via Flying Bark Productions and Hilary Leavitt from Upside Down Pictures.

“The team and I, we’ve been working really, really hard to make sure that we capture the very thing that makes ‘Stranger Things’ what it is,” Robles stated.