Before the Russo Brothers return to Marvel Studios for Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars, we’ll get their long-awaited sci-fi film The Electric State. It feels like we’ve been waiting for this one forever, Netflix has dropped a new trailer for the dystopian sci-fi road trip film starring Stranger Things‘ Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt.
The Electric State follows the aftermath of a failed robot rebellion. It used to be that humans and robots, which resemble cartoon characters and mascots, lived together in harmony. But now the sentient androids live in exile.
Brown plays Michelle, a young woman who teams with her toy robot on a mission to find her missing brother. Pratt plays Keats, a veteran of the human-robot conflict.
Also in the cast are Ke Huy Quan, Stanley Tucci, Woody Norman, and Giancarlo Esposito. The robots are voiced by Jenny Slate, Brian Cox, Anthony Mackie, Billy Bob Thornton, Alan Tudyk, Jason Alexander, and Woody Harrelson as Mr. Peanut.
The film was adapted by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, writers of the Russos’ previous hit Avengers films. These guys are used to producing blockbuster hits together, and they hope to do it again now for Netflix.
Netflix will release The Electric State on March 14th 2025.
SYNOPSIS:
“The Electric State is a spectacular adventure from the directors of Avengers: Endgame set in an alternate, retro-futuristic version of the 1990s. Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things, Enola Holmes, Damsel) stars as Michelle, an orphaned teenager navigating life in a society where sentient robots resembling cartoons and mascots, who once served peacefully among humans, now live in exile following a failed uprising. 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 with Cosmo and soon finds herself reluctantly joining forces with Keats (Chris Pratt, Guardians of the Galaxy, Jurassic World), a low-rent smuggler, and his wisecracking robot sidekick, Herman (voiced by Anthony Mackie). As they venture into the Exclusion Zone, a walled-off corner in the desert where robots now exist on their own, Keats and Michelle find a strange, colorful group of new animatronic allies — and begin to learn that the forces behind Christopher’s disappearance are more sinister than they ever expected.”
