Netflix’s most expensive film ever made has taken seven years to produce and promises to be their biggest blockbuster yet.
The Electric State is directed by the highly-rated Russo brothers known for Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Endgame.
It stars Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt and a host of other big names, including Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan and Stanley Tucci.
Succession star Brian Cox, Seinfeld star Jason Alexander, Woody Harrelson and Billy Bob Thornton all provide character voices.
The Russo brothers acquired the rights to The Electric State pre-publication amid a heated bidding war back in 2017.
But it has taken seven years in production to bring it to the streaming giant at the staggering cost of $320 million.
The colossal figure means that Netflix will outspend Apple for the most expensive film ever to be released on a streaming service.
Joseph Kosinski and Brad Pitt’s F1 Apple movie cost $300 million, and is likely to come out at around the same time as The Electric State.
Filming “officially” wrapped in February 2023 but reshoots took place in March and April of this year.
Very few details have been disclosed about the film to date, which is an adaptation of Simon Stålenhag’s 2018 graphic novel of the same name.
Brown plays an orphaned teenager Michelle in the story, who traverses the American West in search of her younger brother in a retro-futuristic past.
She is joined by a mysterious robot, who claims to know her missing brother, and an eccentric drifter.
In an alternate reality in the year 1997, they travel west through a dystopian American landscape where the ruins of gigantic battle robots called “drones” litter the countryside.
The book publisher’s website describes the tale as ‘Stranger Things meets On the Road‘, so Bobby-Brown certainly sounds like the perfect choice for lead.
She found fame as Seven in the Duffer Brothers series Stranger Things, which was inspired by 80s classics such as ET, and Stephen King novels.
A trailer has been released by Netflix in which Brown’s character, Michelle, to a soundtrack of the Oasis song Champagne Supernova, says: “Right now, all of us have something in common.
“We all lost something after the rebellion. Robots lost their freedom. Humans lost connection with each other and I lost everyone I loved, or so I thought.”
Subscribers to Netflix will have to wait until March, 2025 to see the film.
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