Netflix is not leaving Hawkins alone

“Stranger Things” ended last year.

The universe did not.

Netflix has officially ordered “Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure” to series, with the new live-action spinoff planned for 2028.

The project will move away from the original gang and introduce a new setting, new heroes and new villains. Netflix is still keeping the actual story locked down, which is probably wise considering this franchise spent years training people to freeze-frame walls, clocks and anything vaguely covered in vines.

Kate Trefry will serve as showrunner. She has been part of “Stranger Things” since Season 2 and also wrote the stage production “Stranger Things: The First Shadow.” Joe Wright is attached to direct, while Matt and Ross Duffer remain executive producers.

The title immediately opens the door wider than Hawkins.

We already know the Upside Down was never limited to one unlucky Indiana town, and “Stranger Things” spent five seasons steadily enlarging its mythology. A new location means the series can finally escape the problem every long-running horror property eventually hits: how many supernatural catastrophes can happen to the same neighborhood before everybody simply moves?

This will be the fourth major project inside the franchise after the original series, the animated “Stranger Things: Tales from ’85” and the stage show “The First Shadow.”

No cast has been announced yet.

That last detail is probably going to drive months of speculation, especially since Netflix has already confirmed the new series is not simply another chapter about Eleven, Mike, Dustin and the rest of the original crew.

Hawkins survived five seasons.

Some other town is about to make a terrible real-estate decision.