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, but Vanity Fair has revealed the first look at the dystopian road trip film led by Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt.
The Electric State is based on Simon Stålenhag’s graphic novel, set in an alternate 1997 and the aftermath of an apocalyptic war between humans and robots. But as you can see in the new images, these robots aren’t terminator murder-bots, they’re cute and cuddly helper robots that gained sentience and fought for equal rights. One, named Mr. Peanut, literally looks like the Planters mascot. There’s even a Nutmobile that the robot leader travels in.
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 in March 2025.
