Netflix lands Russo Brothers’ movie ‘The Electric State’

By PTI

LOS ANGELES: Joe and Anthony Russo’s subsequent directing enterprise “The Electric Slate”, starring Millie Bobby Brown, has discovered a house on the streaming platform Netflix.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the event comes after almost half a yr of negotiations.

The film was beforehand arrange at Universal Pictures, which ultimately handed up the deal because of finances points.

The new finances is greater than USD 200 million, mentioned sources.

“The Electric Slate”, primarily based on the acclaimed 2018 graphic novel by Simon Stalenhag of “Tales from the Loop” fame, is a reunion of kinds.

This marks the second big-budget collaboration of the Russo Brothers, recognized for Marvel Studios blockbusters “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Avengers: Endgame”, with the streamer following “The Gray Man”, the motion film which premieres in July.

Brown, the star of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” sequence and “Enola Holmes” movie franchise, will headline “The Electric Slate”, with Chris Pratt, who featured within the Russos’ Avengers movies, in talks to affix her.

Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, whose credit embrace “The Gray Man” and the “Avengers” films, will adapt Stalenhag’s novel for display.

The story follows an orphaned teenager, performed by Brown, “who traverses an American West that is reminiscent of a retro-future with a sweet but mysterious robot and an eccentric drifter in search of her younger brother”.

Russos are additionally producing the characteristic movie by way of their AGBO banner, together with the corporate’s co-founder, Mike Larocca. Chris Castaldi and Patrick Newall are additionally credited as producers.

Markus, McFeely, Angela Russo-Otstot, Jake Aust, and Geoff Haley are hooked up to govt produce the film.

Production is anticipated to start later this yr in Atlanta.