The Russo Bros. Cast Ke Huy Quan, Giancarlo Esposito, and Anthony Mackie in THE ELECTRIC STATE
Directors Joe and Anthony Russo have added some more great actors to the cast of their next big Netflix movie, The Electric State. Giancarlo Esposito (The Mandalorian), and Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once) will take on live-action roles, while Anthony Mackie (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) and Billy Bob Thornton (The Gray Man) have signed on in voice roles. They join the previously cast Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt.
The movie is based on an adaptation of the illustrated novel by Simon Stålenhag and is set in a retro-futuristic alternative America in the mid-1990s. Brown stars as a young girl “traveling across the country in the wake of a civil war between humanity and the robots that once served them, looking to find her missing brother.” Pratt plays a smuggler she meets along the way; Stanley Tucci, Jason Alexander, Brian Cox, and Jenny Slate round out the cast.
Esposito will play an antagonist known as the Marshall, “a robotic drone manned by Esposito’s character remotely and tasked with hunting down the robot aiding Brown’s character on her quest. Quan will play a doctor that Brown’s character needs to find.” He’s actually taking over the role from his Everything Everywhere All at Once costar Michelle Yeoh, who had to leave the project due to scheduling conflicts.
Mackie and Thornton will be providing the voices of sentient robots in the film. Mackie’s character is a sidekick for Pratt’s, while Thornton voices a key figure in the civil war.
The film is currently in production in Atlanta, and it will make its big debut in 2024. The movie has quite an awesome cast! I’m excited about this movie and there’s no doubt that it’s going to be a visually stunning feast for the eyes!
Source: Variety