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.
Check out the final trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
The Electric State is a spectacular sci-fi 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.
