Chris Pratt is back, but this time he’s not a dinosaur wrangler or a space bandit turned hero. In The Electric State, This time around he stars as Keats, a damaged veteran of the robot rebellion. Millie Bobby Brown (Enola Holmes, Stranger Things) co-stars as Michelle, another survivor on a quest to find her brother.
The Electric State takes place after the robot rebellion. The world has been turned topsy-turvy, and the pieces haven’t been picked up yet. The movie is based on a graphic novel by Simon Stålenhag. It’s directed by the Russo brothers, who directed three of the movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In case you’re keeping count, this is the third adaptation of the strange worlds developed by Stålenhag, whose illustrations have also inspired the Amazon Prime series Tales from the Loop and Things from the Flood.
Many of the cast will be familiar to fans of SciFi.Radio. It stars Chris Pratt and Millie Bobby Brown. It also features Stanley Tucci, (Captain America: the First Avenger, 2011, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, 2013), Martin Klebba, (Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl,2003 and Aliens, Clowns, & Geeks, 2019), Ke Huy Quan (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 1984, Everything Everywhere All At Once, 2022), Anthony Mackie (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, 2014, Captain America: Civil War, 2016), Alan Tudyk, (Firefly, Frozen, 2013, Resident Alien, Doom Patrol, Zootopia) voices two of the robots.
“Right now, all of us have something in common.
Millie Bobby Brown as ‘Michelle’
We all lost something.
Robots lost their freedom.
Humans lost connection with each other,
And I lost everyone I loved,
Or so I thought.”
The Electric State is scheduled to debut on Netflix Friday, March 14, 2025.
Susan Macdonald is the author of the children's book "R is for Renaissance Faire", as well as 26 short stories, mostly fantasy in "Alternative Truths", "Swords and Sorceress #30", Swords &Sorceries Vols. 1, 2, & 5, "Cat Tails" "Under Western Stars", and "Knee-High Drummond and the Durango Kid". Her articles have appeared on SCIFI.radio's web site, in The Inquisitr, and in The Millington Star. She enjoys Renaissance Faires (see book above), science fiction conventions, Highland Games, and Native American pow-wows.
