The Electric State’s New Trailer Makes For a Funky Robot Revolution

The Russo brothers’ latest action epic doesn’t look much like the hauntingly dystopian vision Simon Stålenhag laid out in his 2018 graphic novel, The Electric State, but has come up with an answer to those concerns in its latest trailer. The answer is “a liberal application of Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch,” however, so maybe how on-board you are might already be decided.

Today Netflix dropped the second and final trailer for Joe and Anthony Russo’s spin on Stålenhag’s sci-fi world. Loosely following the same story touched on Stålenhag’s original, the film follows a young girl (Stranger Things‘ Millie Bobby Brown) as she travels across the dystopian U.S. on the hunt for her lost brother. Forced to team up with a renegade smuggler named Keats (Guardians of the Galaxy‘s Chris Pratt), film takes a pretty big divergence from the original work from there, as the two and their robot allies find themselves rising up to demand rights for the sentient machines and rebel against the seedy ruling class.

And potentially die while listening to a bit of Marky Mark, but sacrifices have to be made in the robo-lution.

The new trailer probably won’t do much to placate fans of Stålenhag’s work already miffed at the big swings the Russos are taking away from that aesthetic (although there’s definitely still elements of it here, especially in whatever Evil Corporation shenanigans Stanley Tucci is getting up to). But given their backgrounds in Marvel-dom, we might still get a pretty decent and occasionally explosive action film out of all this, and the occasional peanut-based pun thanks to Woody Harrelson’s spin on the thankfully-grown-adult Planter’s Peanut.

The Electric State hits Netflix on March 14.

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