Behind the scenes of The Electric State
Anthony and Joe Russo's new sci-fi adventure film, The Electric State, is adapted from the graphic novel by Swedish artist/designer SimonStalenhag. So naturally the directors wanted to create their own distinctive look and tone-complete with a colorful array of quirky misfit robots who team up with their human counterparts to take down an evil corporation.
(Some spoilers below but no major reveals.)
The Electric State is Stalenhag's third book, published in 2018. Like much of work, it's set in a dystopian, ravaged landscape: a reimagined America in an alternate 1990s where a war between robots and humans has devastated the country. Paragraphs of text, accompanied by larger artworks, tell the story of a teen girl named Michelle (Milly Bobby Brown) who must travel across the country with her robot companion, Cosmo (Alan Tudyk), to find her long-lost genius brother, Christopher (Woody Norman), while being pursued by a federal agent (Giancarlo Esposito).