Netflix has unveiled a new clip from The Electric State, the Russo Brothers’ sci-fi actioner starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt, which is slated to premiere globally on March 14.
Based on the graphic novel by Simon Stålenhag, The Electric State is set in the aftermath of a robot uprising in an alternate version of the ’90s. The story follows an orphaned teenager who ventures across the American West with a cartoon-inspired robot, a smuggler, and his sidekick in search of her younger brother.
Ke Huy Quan, Jason Alexander, Woody Norman, Giancarlo Esposito and Stanley Tucci also star in the film, with voice performances by Woody Harrelson, Anthony Mackie, Brian Cox, Jenny Slate, Hank Azaria, Colman Domingo and Alan Tudyk.
AGBO’s Joe and Anthony Russo directed from a script by their regular collaborators, Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, also producing alongside Mike Larocca, Angela Russo-Otstot, Chris Castaldi and Patrick Newall. Executive producers included Markus, McFeely, Tim Connors, Nick van Dyk, Jake Aust, Geoffrey Haley, Jeffrey Ford, Stålenhag, Julia Angelin, Russell Ackerman, John Schoenfelder, Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti. Anthony J. Vorhies, Joseph Micucci and Murtaza Kathawala served as co-producers.
In an interview with Digital Spy in October, Joe Russo explained that the film delves into themes at the heart of Stålenhag’s work, which concern “how technology both helps and hurts us.”
Said Russo, “There’s some really great elements to technology and some really horrifying elements to it. There’s some really great people working in tech right now and there’s some really terrifying people working in tech at the moment. It’s hard to assess because I don’t know that we’ll understand the impact that it’s had on us for years to come.”
Russo shared that he’s told his own kids, “in the most positive yet conversation encouraging way, that we have to be careful that we survive technology because it alters our psychology in very subtle ways and the more you engage with it, the more it can alter you.”
Russo seemed to suggest in the interview that the film adaptation will be “dark” and “dystopian,” as Stålenhag’s illustrations are, while at the same time capturing the “elements of hope” within them.
Following their work on the long anticipated Electric State, the Russos are returning to the MCU for the first time since Avengers: Endgame with the films Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars, which they’ll both direct and produce, as they revealed at last year’s edition of San Diego Comic-Con. Check out the new clip from their Netflix film above.
From Deadline.com