Simon Stålenhag's graphic novel
The Electric State gets the screen treatment courtesy of
directors Anthony and Joe Russo (Avengers: Endgame) and screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. The film is set an
alternate reality in the years after a war between humans and artificial
intelligence. Millie Bobby Brown plays a young woman who travels across the US
in search of her brother, accompanied by a toy robot and a smuggler (Chris Pratt). Along the way she uncovers a conspiracy.
Ke Huy Quan, Stanley Tucci, Jason Alexander, Brian Cox, Jenny Slate,
Giancarlo Esposito, Anthony Mackie
and Billy Bob Thornton also star.
The Electric State is on Netflix from March 14th,
2025.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
Set in the aftermath of a robot uprising in an alternate version of the ’90s, The Electric State 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.
