Millie Bobby Brown to Star in New Russo Brothers Movie

Millie Bobby Brown is about to star in a brand new Netflix sci-fi film, Deadline reported on June 28. Titled “The Electric State,” the movie will star Brown as a teenage orphan who travels across the American West with a drifter and her well-mannered robotic in an effort to discover her misplaced brother. In brief, it appears set to be the right mix of sci-fi, Americana, and coronary heart.

The movie relies on Simon Stålenhag’s e book “Tales From the Loop,” which was tailored right into a profitable Amazon Prime sequence of the identical identify. “In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robotic journey west by way of a wierd American panorama the place the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, together with the discarded trash of a high-tech consumerist society addicted to a virtual-reality system,” the description of the supply novel reads. “As they strategy the sting of the continent, the world outdoors the automotive window appears to unravel at an ever quicker tempo, as if someplace past the horizon, the hole core of civilization has lastly caved in.”

The script can be tailored by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. The movie can be directed by Joseph and Anthony Russo, the crew behind Netflix’s forthcoming movie “The Gray Man,” which stars Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, and Regé-Jean Page; the duo additionally directed 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame.” There are rumors that Chris Pratt would possibly star in the brand new mission as nicely, although his involvement has not been confirmed.

Brown’s efficiency as Eleven in “Stranger Things” has made her a family identify and a pure candidate for a serious sci-fi characteristic. The final two episodes of “Stranger Things” season 4 drop on July 1.