Millie Bobby Brown teams up with an unrecognizable Chris Pratt to solve a robotics mystery

Millie Bobby Brown may soon be saying goodbye to '80s 'Stranger Things,' but the Netflix star isn't traveling far through time (or space) for her upcoming film, 'The Electric State.'

Brown helms the adventure film alongside Marvel alum Chris Pratt, who reunites with his Avengers: Endgame co-directors Anthony and Joe Russo for the 1990s-set film. Brown plays Michelle, an orphaned teenager navigating life in a society where sentient robots resembling cartoons and mascots live in exile after a failed uprising. But after Michelle befriends the lovable robot Cosmo, who appears to be controlled by her possibly dead younger brother, she sets out to find the truth about what really happened to her family.

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Of course, Brown's co-star Pratt appears to be continuing his Guardians of the Galaxy alter ego by once again playing a futuristic smuggler.

The official synopsis reads: “Determined to find the beloved sibling she thought she had lost, Michelle sets out with Cosmo across the American Southwest and soon reluctantly joins forces with Keats (Pratt), a… Low-rent smuggler, and his wisecracks.” Robot buddy Herman (voiced by Anthony Mackie). As they venture into the Exclusion Zone, a walled corner of the desert where robots now live on their own, Keats and Michelle meet a strange, colorful group of new animatronic allies – and begin to learn the forces behind the disappearance of “Michelle’s brother Christopher is more sinister than they ever expected.”

In addition to teaming up with Pratt and Mackie again, the Russos are also teaming up again with Everything Everywhere All at Once Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan after the duo produced the 2022 awards juggernaut.

The ensemble cast also includes Jason Alexander, Woody Norman, Giancarlo Esposito and Stanley Tucci. Woody Harrelson, Brian Cox, Jenny Slate, Hank Azaria, Colman Domingo and Alan Tudyk also lend their respective voices to the film's robot characters.

“The Electric State” is based on the graphic novel by Simon Stålenhag. Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely adapted the book for the screen.

Joe Russo, Anthony Russo, Mike Larocca, Angela Russo-Otstot, Chris Castaldi and Patrick Newall are producing the film. Executive producers include “The Flash” director Anthony Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, writer Stålenhag, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Tim Connors, Nick van Dyk, Jake Aust, Geoffrey Haley, Jeffrey Ford, Julia Angelin, Russell Ackerman and John Schoenfelder . Anthony J. Vorhies, Joseph Micucci and Murtaza Kathawala are co-producers.

“The Electric State” will premiere on Netflix in 2025. Check out the teaser below.

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