Netflix has released the first trailer for a post-apocalyptic Marvel path (and Community) pillars of the Russo brothers. The adaptation of Simon Stålenhag's 2018 graphic novel is set in a retro-futuristic version of the '90s after a robot uprising. It tells the story of Michelle, an orphaned teenager (Millie Bobby Brown) who ventures across the western United States in search of her younger brother with a smuggler (a mustachioed Chris Pratt) and a pair of robots.
The look of the film is largely based on to large virtual reality headsets. The robots, particularly the one accompanying Michelle, have a cartoon-inspired aesthetic that wouldn't look out of place in radioactive dust. A large teddy bear robot can be seen as part of a parade of machines, while our heroes appear to face a huge one that looks a bit like Sonic the Hedgehog.
Meanwhile, the whole “slowed down iteration of a popular song in a movie trailer” thing might have jumped the shark with the cover of Oasis' “Champagne Supernova” playing over this. It fits the '90s setting, of course, but I couldn't help but laugh as soon as I recognized it.
The film has a tremendous cast. Along with Brown and Pratt, it stars Ke Huy Quan, Jason Alexander, Woody Harrelson, Anthony Mackie, Brian Cox, Jenny Slate, Giancarlo Esposito and Stanley Tucci. The Electrical State arrives on Netflix on March 14.
