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Millie Bobby Brown joins Chris Pratt
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Millie Bobby Brown joins Chris Pratt

Millie Bobby Brown may soon be saying goodbye to the ’80s set “Stranger Things,” but the Netflix star won’t be traveling far in time (or space) for her upcoming film “The Electric State.”

Brown helms the adventure film alongside Marvel alumnus Chris Pratt, who reunites with his “Avengers: Endgame” co-directors Anthony and Joe Russo for the film set in the 1990s. Brown plays Michelle, an orphaned teenager living her life in a society where sentient robots resembling cartoons and mascots live in exile after a failed uprising. But after Michelle befriends the lovable robot Cosmo, who appears to be controlled by her possibly deceased younger brother, she sets out to find the truth about what really happened to her family.

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Of course, Brown’s co-star Pratt appears to be continuing his alter ego from ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ by once again playing a futuristic smuggler.

The official synopsis reads: “Determined to find the beloved sibling she thought she’d lost, Michelle travels across the American Southwest with Cosmo, and soon finds herself reluctantly joining forces with Keats (Pratt), a cheapskate smuggler, and his funny smuggler. robot sidekick, Herman (voiced by Anthony Mackie). As they venture into the Exclusion Zone, a walled corner of the desert where robots now exist on their own, Keats and Michelle find a strange, colorful group of new animatronic allies – and begin to discover that the forces behind the disappearance of Michelle’s brother Christopher are more sinister than they ever expected.”

In addition to reteaming with both Pratt and Mackie, the Russians are also reuniting with “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan after the duo produced the 2022 awards juggernaut.

The ensemble cast also includes Jason Alexander, Woody Norman, Giancarlo Esposito and Stanley Tucci. Woody Harrelson, Brian Cox, Jenny Slate, Hank Azaria, Colman Domingo and Alan Tudyk also lend their respective voices to the film’s robot characters.

“The Electric State” is based on the graphic novel by Simon Stålenhag. Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely adapted the book into a film.

Joe Russo, Anthony Russo, Mike Larocca, Angela Russo-Otstot, Chris Castaldi and Patrick Newall are producing the film. Executive producers include “The Flash” director Anthony Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, author Stålenhag, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Tim Connors, Nick van Dyk, Jake Aust, Geoffrey Haley, Jeffrey Ford, Julia Angelin, Russell Ackerman and John Schoenfelder . Anthony J. Vorhies, Joseph Micucci and Murtaza Kathawala co-produce.

“The Electric State” will premiere on Netflix in 2025. Watch the teaser below.