Netflix has unveiled the teaser trailer for Marvel veterans the Russo Brothers’ The Electric State, the adaptation of Simon Stålenhag’s atmospheric illustrated novel of the same name, which stars Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt.

The first look at the spectacular sci-fi adventure through a post-apocalyptic ’90s America, which hits the streaming service on March 14, 2025, comes ahead of yesterday’s panel presentation at the now-underway New York Comic Con.

The star-studded cast also includes Ke Huy Quan, Jason Alexander and Woody Norman, with Giancarlo Esposito and Stanley Tucci. Mackie, Woody Harrelson, Brian Cox, Jenny Slate, Hank Azaria, Colman Domingo and Alan Tudyk voice the robots.

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Netflix has unveiled the first footage of The Electric State, an adaptation of the narrative art book by Simon Stålenhag. The story takes place in 1994, in the aftermath of a battle between humanity and artificial intelligence that ended in a devastating stalemate. The people who died were buried; the automatons who were destroyed rust away where they fell. The defeated robots have been banished to an “exclusion zone” in the southwestern desert, while human society attempts to rebuild without the help of the mechanical beings it created.

The Electric State is directed by the Russo brothers, and Joe Russo shared his thoughts on why the book resonated with them, stating: “The texture in the images was really powerful, and it felt like a story about broken families and broken people trying to find each other in a broken world.”

The film features a star-studded cast, including Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things, Enola Holmes) as Michelle, a young woman on a quest to find her lost brother, whom she had believed to be dead. Chris Pratt (Passengers, Marvel) plays Keats, a war veteran turned long-haul trucker involved in a smuggling operation with one of his former adversaries—a construction machine named Herman, voiced by Anthony Mackie (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier). The ensemble also includes Woody Harrelson (True Detective, Triangle of Sadness) voicing the leader, Mr. Peanut, along with Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad), Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones), and Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once).

The Electric State is set to premiere on Netflix early 2025.

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Actors Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, and Avengers directors Anthony and Joe Russo are heading to New York Comic Con to discuss their upcoming film The Electric State, based on Simon Stålenhag’s work.

The official Netflix panel for The Electric State is set for Thursday, October 17th, at NYCC, where attendees will be treated to an exclusive sneak peek of the highly anticipated action-adventure movie, which is set for release next year.

The Kickstarter campaign for Simon Stålenhag’s upcoming project, Swedish Machines, has recently concluded with tremendous success. The original goal of SEK 250 000 was achieved in just 25 minutes. In total, the campaign attracted over 5000 backers and raised more than SEK 3.1 million.

 

Stålenhag’s most personal work yet, Swedish Machines, explores masculinity, friendship, and sexuality in a queer science fiction tale about two young men stuck in the past – and in each other’s orbit. Their story spans decades, as fleeting moments become defining memories, and they set out to explore a mysterious forbidden zone together.

 

Set in his native Sweden and based in an alternate version of Mälaröarna outside of Stockholm, the place where he grew up, and still lives to this day, Swedish Machines juxtaposes giant futuristic machines and vehicles against the inner turmoil of the characters facing a social dystopia.

The Electric State Roleplaying Game is gathering attention on the Kickstarter platform, where it has gained close to 5.000 backers and topped its initial goal with more than 3,4 million SEK as the final date approaches on Wednesday, December 20.

The Electric State RPG is a tabletop RPG based on the art book The Electric State by acclaimed visual artist and author Simon Stålenhag. The Electric State RPG will feature never-before published art made by Stålenhag for the original art book project, and is written by Nils Hintze, who also worked on the Tales From the Loop RPG.

Directors Joe and Anthony Russo are expanding the cast of the film adaptation of Simon Stålenhag’s The Electric State, their next film for Netflix, with Giancarlo Esposito (The Mandalorian) and Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once). Anthony Mackie (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) and Billy Bob Thornton (The Gray Man) have also signed on in voice roles.

Set in an alternative America in the mid-1990s, The Electric State stars Millie Bobby Brown as a young girl traveling across the country in the wake of a civil war between humanity and the robots that once served them, looking to find her missing brother. Chris Pratt costars as a smuggler she meets along the way; Stanley Tucci and Jason Alexander round out the cast.

Esposito will play an antagonist known as the Marshall, a robotic drone manned by Esposito’s character remotely and tasked with hunting down the robot aiding Brown’s character on her quest. (The drone is played on set by a performance-capture actor; Esposito will shoot his side later in production.) Quan will play a doctor that Brown’s character needs to find; he’s taking over the role from his Everything Everywhere All at Once costar Michelle Yeoh, who had to depart the film due to scheduling conflicts. Mackie and Thornton will each voice sentient robots in the film. Mackie’s character is a sidekick for Pratt’s, while Thornton voices a key figure in the civil war.

The film is currently in production in Atlanta, with an eye to debut in 2024.

The Russo brothers’ adaptation of Simon Stålenhag’s acclaimed The Electric State has begun filming in Atlanta, Georgia. The film, which will star Millie Bobbie Brown and Chris Pratt, focuses on an orphaned teenager who attempts to search for her brother as she travels across the American West with a mysterious robot and an eccentric drifter. While no premiere date has been set yet, Netflix acquired the rights to the film earlier this year.

Visionary artist and author Simon Stålenhag has joined Goodbye Kansas Studios in producing a game trailer for Funcom’s Dune Awakening, a game inspired by the new feature film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classical sci-fi novel series. Stålenhag thus makes his debut as a game trailer director.

“The collaboration with Goodbye Kansas Studios and Funcom to create this trailer was an incredible opportunity for me to explore a tiny sliver of the legendary Dune universe. I really enjoy working with Goodbye Kansas Studios since they immediately understand what I’m looking for even though my ideas might seem strange at times. Every part of this project was a delight for me – from concepts, mocap to compositing, and to work on something as deep and rich as the Dune universe was nothing short of an honor and privilege,” says Simon Stålenhag.

Actors Michelle Yeoh, Stanley Tucci, Jason Alexander, Brian Cox and Jenny Slate are set to join the already impressive cast of the Russo Brother’s adaptation of Simon Stålenhag’s The Electric State, starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt.
Production is set to start this fall.

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Netflix has successfully acquired the rights to the film adaptation of Simon Stålenhag’s graphic novel titled The Electric State, which will be directed by Avengers: Endgame directors Anthony and Joe Russo. The screenplay is written by Endgame scribes Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely and leading the sci-fi drama film is Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown, who has been attached to the project since 2020.

The film is set in a retro-futuristic past, where an orphaned teenager (Brown) traverses the American West with a sweet but mysterious robot and an eccentric drifter in search of her younger brother. Production is scheduled to begin this fall.

The official soundtrack to Simon Stålenhag’s narrative art novel The Labyrinth, composed by Simon himself, has now been released by Lakeshore Records.
Lakeshore Records is the four-time Grammy Nominated record label behind critically acclaimed soundtracks such as Drive, Stranger Things and Moonlight among many others.

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NPR, America’s National Public Radio, raises Simon Stålenhag as one of seven authors who’ve changed and elevated the sci-fi genre during the last decade, exploring the new format of bite-sized yet profound fiction.

Jason Sheehan, the journalist behind the article, goes on to write the following about Stålenhag and his debut title, Tales from the Loop:

“I love [Stålenhag] for his words. The art is cool, no doubt. But the reason I keep three of his books on my desk at all times is because no other writer […] is better at telling huge stories in small spaces than Stalenhag. Tales From The Loop worldbuilds visually, but it comes alive for me in the small vignettes written into the margins. /…/ 143 words. A complete story, beautiful and haunting. And Stalenhag does this over and over and over again, on nearly every page. His work is both grounded and fantastical, perfectly suited to our modern tastes of ideas served in appetizer-sized portions. What’s more, Loop […] upended things both by proving the viability of crowd-funding in the increasingly siloed world of traditional publishing and presaged the boom we’re now seeing in genre flash and micro fiction.”

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