Netflix has finally unveiled a first look at its major, star-studded movie set for 2025, helmed by some of Hollywood’s biggest directors and thought to have cost a massive $320,000,000 (£241 million). Starring Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, Oscar-winner Ke Huy Quan and Stanley Tucci – alongside the likes of Anthony Mackie , Woody Harrelson, Brian Cox, Colman Domingo and Giancarlo Esposito – The Electric State has confirmed its release for next year. The streaming blockbuster is coming to us courtesy of Marvel alumni Joe and Anthony Russo , who directed two Avengers films among others, and is an adaptation of Simon Stålenhag’s 2018 graphic novel of the same name.
Only scant details were known of the film and its take on the original material before, but now Netflix has blessed fans with a slew of images and an official synopsis for The Electric State, which is described as ‘ Stranger Things meets On the Road’ on the publisher’s website. It’s been years in the making too, with the Russo brothers planning their movie version of it since 2017, when they acquired the rights to The Electric State pre-publication after a fierce bidding war. Until now though, seven years later, we had yet to see even a poster or official picture for it – and now we have several.
Netflix describes The Electric State as ‘set in an alternate, retro-futuristic version of the 1990s’. Brown plays Michelle, an orphaned teenager searching for her younger brother, alongside a sweet .
