- Title: 'The Electric State' is "live action Pixar movie", according to Russo brothers
- Date: 12th March 2025
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (FEBRUARY 25, 2025) (Reuters) (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTOR, MILLIE BOBBY BROWN AND CHRIS PRATT, SAYING: PRATT: "You can really nurture yourself with technology, but you just have to avoid the bad stuff." BROWN: "Doomscrolling." Chris Pratt: "Doomscrolling and so. And then being present and like when I have my kids around, I'm not, we d
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- Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES; NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES; UNIDENTIFIED FILMING LOCATIONS
- City: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES; NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES; UNIDENTIFIED FILMING LOCATIONS
- Country: US
- Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,Film,North America
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- Story Text: Anthony and Joe Russo, the directing team behind 'Avengers: Infinity War' and 'Avengers: Endgame', will send audiences into an alternative timeline when their film 'The Electric State' begins streaming on Netflix on March 14.
Set in 1997, the world has just finished going through a war with robots, who are now outlawed and put into a zone in the American mid-west.
The film follows Michelle (Millie Bobby Brown), who seemingly lost all her family in a car crash.
However, when a robot arrives in her house, claiming to be her presumed dead brother Christopher, she decides to head to the zone to find her brother's physical body.
Along the way, she teams up with Keats (Chris Pratt), a scavenger in the zone, and the pair soon find them facing off against hordes of deformed robots and virtual reality driven mechanical avatars.
"It was the intention was to make a live action Pixar movie," co-director Joe Russo told Reuters.
"We wanted that same tone and depth of storytelling, emotion, laughter, tears, you know, really wanted to bring as full an experience we could do a live action movie, but really trying to be as inspired as we could by Pixar."
Pratt and Brown both sport shabby bleach-blonde hair for the film.
"That hair I thought was like a remnant of maybe he watched 'Point Break' and thought that he identified himself as like a Patrick Swayze of sorts but he's like Fat-rick Swayze, you know," said Pratt.
The film features an array of robot characters, but instead of being tennis balls on sticks, the Russos decided to make things more practical for their actors.
Anthony Russo said "We had a troupe of actors who were very talented actors, but also specifically talented in motion and movement. And they would portray the robots. They would each sort of take a different robot. And they were really critical in terms of creating the energy on set, also developing the personality of the robots, the movement of the robots, etc."
The reason the directing brothers wanted to make the movie so universal was to spread the film's message about being present in reality, while not being enslaved by technology.
The Russos are currently working on the new Avengers film, 'Avengers: Doomsday".
Joe Russo said "It's going to be harder than the first two without question. You know, I think that it's more complex. Both the movies are more complex, there's more cast, believe it or not. So they're going to be tricky."
Millie Bobby Brown also has the final season of 'Stranger Things' coming out later in the year.
She said "I just think people are going to absolutely die when they see, you know, the show."
To which, Pratt retorted, pretending to be an executive at Netflix, "Millie, we want to talk to you about this line of promotion you've been using, that everyone who watches it will die."
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