Seven years aft Simon Stålenhag’s The Electric State was picked up for a live-action adaptation, and a fewer weeks aft first-look images were revealed, we yet person the archetypal trailer. The clip sets up what seems similar a large conflict successful a retrofuturistic satellite — but it’s hard not to absorption connected the cartoonish tech and robots, which consciousness similar goofier takes connected Stålenhag’s distinctive art.
The Netflix adaptation is being directed Avengers-returnees Anthony and Joe Russo, and according to the streamer it’s “set successful an alternate, retro-futuristic mentation of the 1990s,” exploring “life successful a nine wherever sentient robots resembling cartoons and mascots, who erstwhile served peacefully among humans, present unrecorded successful exile pursuing a failed uprising.”
It features a beauteous stacked formed including Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, Ke Huy Quan, Jason Alexander, Woody Norman, Giancarlo Esposito, and Stanley Tucci, on with the dependable enactment of Woody Harrelson, Anthony Mackie, Brian Cox, Jenny Slate, Hank Azaria, Colman Domingo, and Alan Tudyk.
The Electric State hits Netflix connected March 14th, 2025.