Upcoming movie The Electric State has finally been unveiled by Netflix (Picture: Netflix)
Netflix has finally unveiled a first look at its major, star-studded movie set for 2025, helmed by some of Hollywood’s biggest directors and thought to have cost a massive $320,000,000 (£241 million).
Starring Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, Oscar-winner Ke Huy Quan and Stanley Tucci – alongside the likes of Anthony Mackie, Woody Harrelson, Brian Cox, Colman Domingo and Giancarlo Esposito – The Electric State has confirmed its release for next year.
The streaming blockbuster is coming to us courtesy of Marvel alumni Joe and Anthony Russo, who directed two Avengers films among others, and is an adaptation of Simon Stålenhag’s 2018 graphic novel of the same name.
Only scant details were known of the film and its take on the original material before, but now Netflix has blessed fans with a slew of images and an official synopsis for The Electric State, which is described as ‘Stranger Things meets On the Road’ on the publisher’s website.
It’s been years in the making too, with the Russo brothers planning their movie version of it since 2017, when they acquired the rights to The Electric State pre-publication after a fierce bidding war.
Until now though, seven years later, we had yet to see even a poster or official picture for it – and now we have several.
Theretro-futuristic film stars Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt (Picture: Paul Abell/Netflix)
Based on a graphic novel, The Electric State has been years in the making (Picture: Netflix)
Joe and Anthony Russo are directing the movie for Netflix, after their huge success with The Gray Man (Picture: Paul Abell/Netflix)
Netflix describes The Electric State as ‘set in an alternate, retro-futuristic version of the 1990s’.
Brown plays Michelle, an orphaned teenager searching for her younger brother, alongside a sweet but mysterious robot and an eccentric drifter.
In this society, sentient robots resembling cartoons and mascots, who once served peacefully among humans, now live in exile following a failed uprising.
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However, the synopsis adds: ‘Everything Michelle thinks she knows about the world is upended one night when she’s visited by Cosmo, a sweet, mysterious robot who appears to be controlled by Christopher – Michelle’s genius younger brother whom she thought was dead. Determined to find the beloved sibling she thought she had lost, Michelle sets out across the American southwest.’
The duo then reluctantly joins forces with Keats (Pratt), a low-rent smuggler, and his wisecracking robot sidekick, Herman (voiced by Mackie).
Brown is orphaned teenager Michelle, Pratt is drifter Keats and Ke Huy Quan plays Dr Amherst (Picture: Netflix)
The film is epic in scale – and also reportedly epic in budget (Picture: Netflix)
Photos show Brown rocking a long blonde wig and wearing her hair in a very 90s high ponytail, while Pratt has a blonde scraggly cut, beard and horseshoe moustache.
Their journey takes them into the Exclusion Zone, a corner of the desert where robots now exist on their own, where they …read more
Source:: Metro
