‘The Electric State’: The Russo Brothers Sign Michelle Yeoh and Stanley Tucci

After the success that ‘The Invisible Agent’ has been, the Russo brothers have a new project on Netflix: ‘The Electric State’, the adaptation of the homonymous graphic novel by Simon Stålenhag, also author of ‘Tales from the Loop’. To star in the film, the directors had already hired Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt and they just added two chunks of names to the cast: Michelle Yeoh and Stanley Tucci, two actors who, like them, have passed through the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Yeoh in ‘Shang-Chi and the legend of the ten rings’ and Tucci in ‘Captain America: The first avenger’. In addition, we will also see Jason Alexander in the film and we will hear Jenny Slate and Brian Cox in only vocal roles.

Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely are currently working on the script. assiduous collaborators of the directors, who already wrote ‘Avengers: Endgame’. When the Russo got on with the project, back in 2017, they thought only of producing it and they were going to have Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti behind the cameras in 2019, but things have changed since then and they will be the ones who direct it.

What is it about?

‘The Electric State’ tells the story of a girl and her robot companion who travel with an eccentric homeless man through the fictional state of Pacifica, in a retro-futuristic alternate version of the western United States, looking for his brother. Millie Bobby Brown will play the protagonist, Michelle, and it is not known who Pratt will play, but considering that he will be the voice of Super Mario and Garfield, some media theorize that he could dub Michelle’s robot, Skip.

Originally it was Universal that bought the rights to what was Stålenhag’s third book, but the high cost of production meant that they ended up in the hands of Netflix. It is estimated that its budget will be about 200 million dollars. As part of his book campaign, Stålenhag produced and released an album of electronic music of the same title for his Kickstarter backers, which we don’t know if it will be used in the Russos’ film. ‘The Electric State’ does not have a release date on Netflix, but production is expected to start this fall.

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‘The Electric State’: The Russo Brothers Sign Michelle Yeoh and Stanley Tucci