The Electric State is one of those projects inherited from Scott Stuber’s former leadership at Netflix. A science fiction film that cost “The Big Red N” dearly 300 million dollars and that, if it had been up to new boss Dan Lin, production probably wouldn’t even have been completed. But of course, this proposal is not the bat girl of Warner and its cancellation would pose too many problems in terms of reputation to the directors of the Californian company. Above all, given that it is led by the brand’s star, Millie Bobby Brown and a whole host of international stars led by the Russo brothers (Avengers: Endgame). Today, after several complications during filming, the company has finally deigned to show the first images in which the protagonist appears accompanied by Chris Pratt and the Oscar winner, Ke Huy Quan.
Based on the novel of the same name by Simon StålenhagThe film is set in the apocalyptic 90s where a girl named Michelle teams up with a robot to find her missing brother. Likewise, the promotional material allows us to take a look at the technology and production design that the androids of the story will have, in addition to finding the first snapshots of the characters of Stanley Tucci and Giancarlo Esposito. Of course, in the absence of a first official trailer, the images leave no doubt about the involvement of the design and special effects department, since we have never seen similar CGI in a project created for the company founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. Even with everything, The Electric State It is expected for 2025, without an official date for the transmission terminal. We also do not know if the production company intends that before the Netflix catalog it can reach cinemas to make part of the investment economically profitable.
The Russos return to Netflix
It will take time to know if Joe and Anthony Russo’s new adventure with the streaming giant turns out to be a final outcome of failures or if, on the contrary, the filmmakers will sign a great product for Netflix. In fact, a few months ago we learned that the brothers would return to Marvel to direct Avengers: Apocalypseaccompanied by the reincarnation of Robert Downey Junior in Doctor Doom. A long-awaited and necessary return in both directions, since the house of ideas did not work well without the vision of the duo of filmmakers, and their respective attempts to create interesting content on the different video platforms did not work either more.
In 2020 they produced Tyler Rake. Action film in the purest John Wick style where they achieved some critical and public success. However, neither the sequel nor The invisible agent obtained the merits that the leaders of the major. Above all, taking into account the fact that The invisible agent At the time, it was the most expensive film in the label’s history ($200 million). Likewise, with his production company AGBOthe Russos broke Prime Video’s record with failure Citadela series of 135 million budget items which convinced no one. All this, added to his future great work within the UCM (Marvel Cinematographic Universe), leads us to think that The Electric State This will be this last chance for directors to succeed on Netflix.
talk to Vanity Fairthe administrators expressed How relevant was Stålenhag’s work? today: “It seemed like a story about broken families and broken people trying to find themselves in a broken world. It also seemed like something that identified with us, raising our children in a dominated world. by technology.
The problems of the “electric state”
The Electric State takes us to an uchronia which takes place in 1994where humanity finds itself in a delicate situation. After winning a war against AI, humans find themselves in the middle of an existential crisis from which they attempt to recover without the help of machines. It is in this context that people begin to lose their humanity and robots begin to feel.
In the story, Pratt plays Keats, a truck driver whom Michelle joins to travel to the dangerous territory she plans to reach no matter what, in order to find her brother. Individualistic Plot Robots Receive Voices Woody Harrelson, Brian Cox and Jenny Slate. Among the various problems the Russos encountered during editing was the need to record additional new footage (repeatsin cinematic slang). A fairly common action in feature films with so many special effects, but still a nuisance and a delay for previews. To make matters worse, during filming one of the workers died in a car accident after finishing a day of work on set, forcing filming to stop even further.
However, it looks like we will soon have a first trailer And? The Electric State will set a definitive date for its arrival in theaters and streaming.
