{"id":102551,"date":"2018-04-18T15:49:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T14:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=102551"},"modified":"2018-04-18T15:50:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T14:50:23","slug":"stranger-things-season-3-casts-a-sleazy-mayor-and-a-journalist-with-questionable-morals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/stranger-things-season-3-casts-a-sleazy-mayor-and-a-journalist-with-questionable-morals\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Things Season 3 casts a sleazy mayor and a journalist with questionable morals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Casting for Stranger Things<\/em><\/strong> Season 3 continues to ramp up, as two familiar genre faces have joined the hit Netflix series.<\/p>\n

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Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride<\/em><\/strong>, Saw<\/em><\/strong>) and Jake Busey (Starship Troopers<\/em><\/strong>, Identity<\/em><\/strong>) have signed on to join the third season. Elwes will play Mayor Kline: “Handsome, slick, and sleazy, Mayor Kline is your classic 80s politician — more concerned with his own image than with the people of the small town he governs.”<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Busey will star as Bruce, “a journalist for the The Hawkins Post with questionable morals and a sick sense of humour.”<\/p>\n

Slick politicians and people with questionable morals are very much in Elwes and Busey’s respective wheelhouses (we all remember hating Elwes’ character on The X-Files<\/em><\/strong> and Busey has been destroying the scenery on the From Dusk Till Dawn<\/em><\/strong> TV series). And, as the star of The Princess Bride<\/em><\/strong>, Elwes fits nicely into the show’s tradition of casting performers from beloved 80s classics.<\/p>\n

Details about the third season remain hard to come by, but we know that it will pick up one year later in 1985 and that we can expect a lot of Back To The Future<\/em><\/strong> references…<\/p>\n

Stranger Things\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Seasons 1 and 2 are available to stream on Netflix now. Get all the latest sci-fi news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Stranger Things Season 3 cast keeps getting bigger as two genre veterans jump aboard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":102552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[4829],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/stranger.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}