Netflix Debuts First Trailer for Electric State

After a few years of trying to tackle a grounded story, directors Joe and Anthony Russo are back in the director’s chair with a bombshell genre show. Before they return to Marvel to face the next pair They don’t take revenge movies, they have The Electric State on Netflix, which got its real world premiere at New York Comic-Con.

Based on the retrofuturistic graphic novel by Simon Stålenhag Tales from the Loop, the film is set in another version of 1994, after an age-old war between humans and animatronic robots. Stranger Things’ Millie Bobby Brown plays Michelle, who has spent years searching for her missing brother (Woody Norman). Instead, he seems to be following her, and has released his robot Kid Cosmo to take him to his hiding place. Naturally, it’s not as easy as it sounds, and the two need to hitch a ride with Chris Pratt’s veteran smuggler-turned-smuggler Keats and his robot friend Herman (Anthony Mackie) to find their brother and learn why he went missing in the first place. .

So, the quartet travels through the post-apocalypse, taking things like the evacuation zone where the robots go after the end of the war. Along with the general setup, the trailer shows us how many robots still exist, and the answer is a lot: many are human-sized, but some are big enough to handle RVs like they’re nothing or take out their little mechanical brothers. of the air like flies. If you ever wanted to see Mr. Peanut (voiced by Woody Harrelson) and Star-Lord take up arms against a rotten theme park robot, The Electric State seems to give you your fix.

Starring Woody Harrelson, Jenny Slate, Giancarlo Esposito, and Ke Huy Quan, The Electric State hits Netflix March 14.

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