Netflix has finally closed a deal for big budget movie ‘The Electric State’ from Joe and Anthony Russo, after nearly half a year of negotiations. A move that reunites them with the company behind their current project, the action movie The Gray May, which debuts in July. The duo will direct the feature, who are known for the Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame mega-blockbusters.
Millie Bobby Brown, who is the breakout star of Netflix’s Stranger Things, to star in the feature, with Chris Pratt, who appeared in the Russos’ Avengers movies, in talks to join her.
The story centers on an orphaned teenager (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.
The project is an adaptation of the acclaimed 2018 illustrated novel by Simon Stålenhag, the writer-artist who also created Tales from the Loop.
Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, longtime Russo scribes who worked on Gray Man as well as the Avengers pics, are writing the script. Producing are the Russos via their AGBO banner, along with the company’s co-founder, Mike Larocca. Chris Castaldi and Patrick Newall are also producing. Executive producing are Angela Russo-Otstot, Jake Aust, Geoff Haley, Markus, and McFeely.
The start of production is planned in October in Atlanta.
Brown is repped by WME and Hansen Jacobson and The Russos are repped by CAA and Greenberg Glusker.
