Millie Bobby Brown is following up her lackluster Netflix fantasy Damsel with yet another questionable Netflix feature film in the upcoming sci-fi, The Electric State.
Directed by the Russo brothers and reportedly costing Netflix a whopping $320 million (not a typo), The Electric State is a family friendly adventure set in the ’90s after a failed robot rebellion resulted in the banishment of all of the sentient robots to a secured territory called the Electric State.
Brown stars as Michelle, an orphaned teenager who embarks on a journey across the robot wasteland with the help of a former soldier (Chris Pratt) and his robot sidekick Herman, in search of her missing brother.
As they travel west to the Exclusion Zone where they meet new robot allies who can possibly help her find her genius younger brother, Michelle realizes there may be more to the robot rebellion than she realizes.
Netflix released the first trailer for the new sci-fi film and it looks… dubious, to say the least.
The trailer resembles an apocalyptic, war-torn drama in many regards. But the black and white footage showing Pratt as a soldier fighting the robot rebellion begins to look preposterous when you realize the sentient robots he’s fighting are all designed to look like cartoons and animatronics.
It’s also impossible to ignore their terrible wigs, which make them look more like rockstars than survivors.
Stanley Tucci also stars, though his role in the film is unclear. In the trailer, his character is questioned over his decision not to own robots. “I never trusted them. They’re not us,” he remarks. “How could they possibly understand our best interests?”
Who else stars in The Electric State cast?
Ke Huy Quan, Jason Alexander, and Giancarlo Esposito will also star alongside Brown and Pratt.
But The Electric State also features a stellar cast of actors who will voice the several robots featured in the film, including Woody Harrelson, Brian Cox, Anthony Mackie, and Jenny Slate.
The Electric State premieres on Netflix March 14.
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