Yahoo Movies First look at Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt in new Netflix movie
Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt star in first-look images for new Netflix movie The Electric State.
The upcoming 90s-set sci-fi from Marvel directors Joe and Anthony Russo is based on the illustrated novel by Simon Stålenhag, and follows a girl who teams up with a robot to find her missing brother.
A first series of stills from the movie have now been released, showing Brown in character as Michelle sporting blonde hair, while Pratt takes on a 70s look with long hair and a goatee as Keats.
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A look at the movie’s robots has also been released, as well as Ke Huy Quan’s Dr Amherst, Giancarlo Esposito’s Colonel Marshall Bradbury and Stanley Tucci’s Ethan Skate.
Opening up about her character Michelle, Brown compared her to Stranger Things’ Eleven in an interview with Vanity Fair.
“We’re technically both the same age, so I feel like it was just: What are moments that I wouldn’t show my weakness? What are moments that I would? And I just played with that,” she explained.
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“I really want her to show that she’s made of stone because I want that to be the perception of who she is. But actually, as you get to know her, she softens and she warms up. And I tried to implement as much of my own experiences into her as possible.”
Addressing Stålenhag’s book and its relevance to today, Joe Russo noted: “It felt like a story about broken families and broken people trying to find each other in a broken world. It also felt resonant to us, raising our kids in a technology-heavy world.
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“It could be an assaultive theme if the story were set in the present day,” he added. “Sometimes we find that when you couch it in a fable, and you remove it from its immediacy, you can create space for people to process it differently.
“What Simon Stalenhag did that was so clever is that humans are using technology to dehumanize themselves, and he tells a story about technology that aspires to become human.
"At what point do they cross, and at what point does the technology become more human than the humans?”
The Electric State will premiere on Netflix in March 2025.
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