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Here's How That Epic Stranger Things 4 Guitar Scene Came Together
By JENNA BUSCH AND HANNAH SHAW-WILLIAMS
Spoiler Warning!
This story contains spoilers for "Stranger Things" Season 4.
/Film participated in a roundtable where Joseph Quinn (Eddie Munson) described how one of the most memorable scenes from the fourth season came to be. The four-phase plan to defeat Vecna has Munson breaking into a guitar solo, covering Metallica's “Master of Puppets,” to distract the fiendish bat creatures as the others carry out the mission in the Upside Down.
Quinn got a few “quite elusive texts” from showrunners Matt and Ross Duffer during volume 1 asking if he could play guitar, and when he received the final script for volume 2, he went out and bought a guitar to “start practicing a lot.” The showrunners had a specific song in mind even during pre-production, with music supervisor Nora Felder saying, “It was another one of those 'it has to be this song,' moments.”
Quinn described the scene feeling “Totally earned and it feels silly, but it feels right and it feels just inspired and I felt so lucky to be able to have a [part of it].” Felder said the scene was a “pivotal and especially hair-raising scene in which Eddie heroically stood tall for the fight of his life,” and explained licensing the song was easy, as Metallica are fans of the show.