Previously, we reported that Netflix is set to take us back to the world of Hawkins with a new animated series based on Stranger Things, titled Stranger Things: Tales From ’85. The series is scheduled for a Netflix premiere on April 23. Now, the streamer is heading back to theatres after the Stranger Things finale, teaming up with AMC Theatres for a preview of the animated show.

The theatre show is scheduled for April 18, five days before the show's Netflix premiere, the first two episodes of Tales from '85, with a combined runtime of 55-odd minutes.

Compared to the Stranger Things series finale, Tales From '85 has a much more limited theatrical run. On April 18, 34 AMC theatres in 20 states, as well as the Netflix-run Paris Theatre in New York and the Netflix House in Philadelphia, will host two screenings of the animated series. On December 31 and January 1, the Stranger Things finale was shown in around 600 theatres across the country, including about 200 AMC sites. It made an estimated $20 million to $25 million at the box office.

Eric Robles serves as its showrunner, and the Stranger Things creators, the Duffer Brothers, are serving as its executive producers. The animated show is set between the original series' second and third seasons. In the final episode of the second season, Millie Bobby Brown's character Eleven closes the Hawkins Lab gate, presenting Tales From ’85 with a conundrum: how would it feature the Upside Down's creatures? According to showrunner Robles, who produces it under his Flying Bark Productions banner, "That was the big challenge of developing the show."

When the Duffer Brothers went to Robles to find a solution to the aforesaid conundrum, he told them, "Let me do some research on this." Let me really dissect the show, dig into my old memory vault of a lot of ’80s movies I used to watch, and see what I can piece together here." After he started the process of research, he got an idea for Stranger Things: Tales From ’85.