- Final trailer for The Electric State arrives
- Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt to star
- Film hits Netflix in 2025
Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown is swapping Hawkins, Indiana in the 1980s for an alternate version of the 1990s in The Electric State, her new high-concept sci-fi that places her alongside Jurassic World’s Chris Pratt.
This new Netflix movie will be helmed by Joe and Anthony Russo, the same directing duo that brought us MCU megahits Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.
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It’ll plunge us into a retro-skewed future to tell a playful tale of robotics and AI while looking at how humans manage to co-exist between the two.
What else do we know about The Electric State? Read for all the key information you need, including its release date, trailers, plot and cast.
What is The Electric State release date?
The Electric State will be released on Netflix worldwide on 14 March 2025.
The movie won’t be the only huge streaming release waiting for Brown in the new year. The hotly anticipated fifth and final season of Stranger Things is also set to return from the Upside Down at some point in 2025.
Here, Brown plays a telekinetic teen known only as Eleven who must work with a group of local misfits to stop to some shady stuff impacting their small town.
Is there a trailer for The Electric State?
The final trailer for The Electric State arrived just a few days before its Netflix debut.
The teaser shed a little more light on Pratt’s quick-talking gun-for-hire trying to make his way in a robotic wasteland.
However, when he meets a young girl, his plans change forever. Watch it above.
As part of Netflix’s Next on Netflix celebration, the streamer released a new clip for The Electric State. It’s the first full scene we’ve seen from the movie and gives us more of an insight into the relationship between Pratt and Brown’s characters.
Watch it above.
A full trailer for The Electric State was released on 18 December 2024. Scored to a stripped back version of Somewhere Over The Rainbow, the extended look transported us to a world where a robot uprising had been attempted.
While it was unsuccessful, all remaining bots were sent to live in a restricted zone know as the Electric State. It’s here where our heroes – played by Brown and Pratt – must venture on a nail-biting journey.
Meanwhile, the first teaser trailer for The Electric State landed online in mid-October 2024. It welcomed us into the Russo’s visionary new world.
Watch it below:
Lasting two-and-a-half minutes and scored to a stripped-back version of Oasis earworm Champagne Supernova, this early teaser saw Brown and Pratt’s characters forced to adapt to a new robotic world.
Together, they must set out on a quest to recover a lost family member. Who do they play you ask? Well, we’ll get to that in a minute…
What is plot of The Electric State?
Based on a script by Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame scribes Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, The Electric State is set in an alternate reality version of the 1990s where sentient robots exist alongside humans after their uprising failed.
It’s in this world where orphaned teenager Michelle must team up with plucky smuggler Keats and his wisecracking robot sidekick to brave a place known as the ‘Exclusion Zone’ which is controlled entirely by robots. Their quest? To find Michelle’s brother Christopher.
“As they venture into the Exclusion Zone, a walled-off corner in the desert where robots now exist on their own, Keats and Michelle find a strange, colourful group of new animatronic allies — and begin to learn that the forces behind Christopher’s disappearance are more sinister than they ever expected,” explains the film’s official synopsis.
Speaking about how The Electric State differed from their work on Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, the Russos revealed that this one contains the most amount of visual effects they’ve ever worked on.
“I don’t know if I’d point out one single shot, but I will say this: we’ve worked with visual effects a lot in our movies. This has been the most amount of visual effects we’ve ever dealt with in a film,” Anthony told Collider.
“That was challenging itself in terms of creating that. Also, we were trying to do a very grounded real world that has a period feel to it, so we had to have a high level of fidelity in the visual effect work to create recognizable realism so that people would understand it as period.”
Who is in the cast?
Brown plays Michelle, with Pratt joining her as the sly smuggler Keats. Together, the duo are joined by an ensemble cast, some of whom appear in person, while others lend their voices to the film’s various ‘bots.
Oscar-winning Everything Everything All At Once star Ke Huy Quan plays Dr. Amherst, The Hunger Games’ Stanley Tucci is Ethan Skate and Breaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito will play a character named Colonel Marshall Bradbury.
Meanwhile, folks like Brian Cox, Jenny Slate, Anthony Mackie, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Alexander, Woody Harrelson and Alan Tudyk will voice various members of the film’s colourful machine cast.
