Netflix will reunite with some familiar faces for the post-apocalyptic outing, The Electric State. Based on the illustrated novel by Simon Stålenhag, The Electric State will be directed by Joe and Anthony Russo AKA The Russo Brothers, with Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown set to lead the project.
Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown will lead The Electric State as Michelle, an orphaned teenager attempting to survive in a retro-future. “Set in a post-apocalyptic 1997, The Electric State is the story of Michelle who, accompanied by her toy robot Skip, sets out across the western United States in a stolen car to find her missing brother,” the synopsis for the source novel reads. “Told in achingly melancholy, spare prose and featuring almost a hundred gorgeous, full-colour illustrations, The Electric State is a novel like no other.”
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The illustrated novel has been called “Stranger Things meets On the Road” making Millie Bobby Brown the perfect person to lead the Netflix project.
As reported by Deadline, The Electric State will not only bring The Russo Brothers and Millie Bobby Brown back to the streaming service, but also writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, who will adapt The Electric State for the screen. Markus and McFeely have worked alongside Joe and Anthony Russo many times in the past, most notably on the likes of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, and both Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. The writing pair’s next project is The Gray Man which, you guessed it, is being directed by the Russo Brothers for release on Netflix.
There are currently no other cast members attached, but it has been reported that Guardians of the Galaxy star Chris Pratt (incidentally another movie involving Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely) is currently in talks to star alongside Brown.
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The Electric State is just one of several Netflix projects involving Millie Bobby Brown and The Russo Brothers. The latter will soon launch what they hope to be a new action franchise with the spy thriller The Gray Man. Starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans, The Gray Man follows the CIA’s most skilled mercenary, Court Gentry AKA Sierra Six, who accidentally uncovers dark agency secrets. He soon becomes a primary target and is hunted around the world by psychopathic former colleague Lloyd Hansen and a group of international assassins.
The Gray Man is set for release on Netflix on July 22, 2022.
As for Millie Bobby Brown, she will return as Eleven in volume 2 of Stranger Things Season 4 at the end of this week. As Eleven continues to revive her powers, Vecna, who has now been revealed to be Henry Creel and One, the first of Dr. Martin Brenner’s experiments, begins to unleash his might on the tiny town of Hawkins. Hopper, Joyce, and Murray, meanwhile, find themselves in a very different but no less dangerous predicament, attempting to escape a Russian prison.
Stranger Things Season 4 Volume 2 will be available on Netflix from July 1, 2022. The actress is also due to return as Enola Holmes in an upcoming sequel.
