Since taking a break from Marvel, the Russo Brothers turned their talents towards streaming, making Cherry for Apple, and The Gray Man for Netflix. The duo’s latest blockbuster-sized flick will also be for Netflix and it’s the long-awaited adaptation of The Electric State, a nostalgic sci-fi adventure featuring some of the cutest robot mascots ever to survive a robot uprising.
A final trailer for The Electric State has dropped before the film debuts next week. Based on Simon Stålenhag’s graphic novel, the film takes place in a retro-future version of the ’90s in the aftermath of a failed robot uprising. Millie Bobby Brown plays an orphaned teen traveling the American West with her cartoonish robot, a smuggler, and his sidekick to find her missing brother.
Joining Brown in the cast are Chris Pratt, Ke Huy Quan, Jason Alexander, Woody Norman, Giancarlo Esposito, and Stanley Tucci. The voice cast is led by Woody Harrelson, Anthony Mackie, Brian Cox, Jenny Slate, Hank Azaria, Colman Domingo, and Alan Tudyk. I’m pretty sure Alan Tudyk voices everything nowadays.
Tudky’s character, Cosmo, will also be part of a prequel spinoff video game, The Electric State: Kid Cosmo, that will launch on IOS and Android a few days after the film’s Netflix premiere on March 14th.
SYNOPSIS: A spectacular sci-fi adventure from the directors of ‘Avengers: Endgame’ set in an alternate, retro-futuristic version of the 1990s. Millie Bobby Brown 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), 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. [Variety]
