The Russo Brothers haven’t stopped to take a breath after their massive success from “Avengers: Endgame” toppling “Avatar“‘s box office record, they moved directly into making the Tom Holland thriller “Cherry” and are about to begin shooting their $200 million-plus budgeted spy film “The Gray Man” for Netflix with a stellar cast that includes Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jessica Henwick, Wagner Moura, and others.
According to Deadline, they’ve now lined-up yet another directing gig with “The Electric State” for Universal Pictures, as “IT” director Andy Muschietti, backed away from the project, taking on DC Comics film “The Flash” instead. The publication also adds that “Stranger Things” actress Millie Bobby Brown, who once visited the directors on the set of “Avengers” set in Atlanta, Georgia has landed the lead role of the teenage girl. Andy and Barbara Muschietti will stay on as executive producers alongside the Russos via their AGBO production company.
“The Electric State” is an adaptation of Simon Stålenhag‘s sci-fi graphic novel that has a script penned by Marvel Studios regulars Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, the pair of screenwriters previously working with director siblings on their “Captain America” and “Avengers” movies.
Here is an official synopsis of the original graphic novel.
“In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, along with the discarded trash of a high-tech consumerist society addicted to a virtual-reality system. As they approach the edge of the continent, the world outside the car window seems to unravel at an ever faster pace, as if somewhere beyond the horizon, the hollow core of civilization has finally caved in.”
The Amazon series “Tales From The Loop” is also an adaptation of Simon Stålenhag’s work.
Millie Bobby Brown is currently working on Season 4 of “Stranger Things” and will be seen next in Legendary’s “Godzilla vs Kong.”
When the Russo Brothers will begin shooting “The Electric State” is currently unknown despite the project being a priority for Universal, however, they have been talking up the idea of Marvel-like interconnected universe for “Gray Man” and their Chris Hemsworth-starring picture “Extraction,” so who knows what they can do with ‘Electric State’ in the future. Deadline speculates a potential start date at the end of 2021 or in early 2022.