Simply because Stranger Issues is coming to an finish doesn’t imply that Millie Bobby Brown’s relationship with Netflix is coming to an finish. At New York Comedian Con 2024, Brown appeared to debut the primary take a look at her upcoming action-adventure film generally known as The Electrical State.
Set in a retro-futuristic previous (it’s the 90’s and it hurts they’re calling this retro) it tells the story of an orphaned teenager named Michelle (Brown) and her seek for her youthful brother Christopher after a failed revolt by sentient robots. Becoming a member of her on this journey throughout the American West is an eccentric drifter named Keats, performed by Chris Pratt, and a “candy however mysterious robotic.”
However Cosmo isn’t simply any mysterious robotic. He’s apparently being managed by Christopher himself. A Christopher that Michelle thought was lengthy gone and lifeless. That’s when she decides to seek for him, main her on a grand journey, and nearer to the heartbreaking actuality “that the forces behind Christopher’s disappearance are extra sinister than they ever anticipated.”
The Electrical State is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo. It stars Brown, Pratt, and Academy Award winner Ke Huy Quan. All three are sporting very 90’s hair. Jason Alexander, Giancarlo Esposito, Academy Award nominee Stanley Tucci, and Woody Norman spherical out the primary solid. And Anthony Mackie, Woody Harrelson, Brian Cox, Jenny Slate, and Alan Tudyk lend their abilities because the voices of the robots.
The movie is predicated on the graphic novel by Simon Stålenhag with a screenplay written by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely. Within the graphic novel, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robotic journey by way of a wierd American panorama the place the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside. Inside it’s pages there’s additionally remnants of high-tech consumerist society hooked on a virtual-reality system, which we see within the teaser trailer. And as they method the sting of the continent, the world outdoors appears to unravel at an ever sooner tempo.
Watch the trailer for The Electrical State under:
The Electrical State premieres on March 14, 2025 on Netflix.