Netflix is putting online a new long -awaited blockbuster this week. Rumor says it could be the most expensive film in the streaming platform.
200 million dollars for The Gray Man And Red notice, 160 million for The Irishman And Beverly Hills 4… Netflix can sign large checks for some of its large original productions, hoping that success will be there. But according to rumors relayed by the American media, the streaming platform would have spent an even crazier sum for its latest blockbuster, posted this week.
Several American media such as Collider or IMDB advance an estimated budget of $ 300 million for the last achievement of the Russo brothers (The Gray Man, Avengers: Infinity War And Endgam…). Netflix has not confirmed this figure, but if it is true, it would make The Electric State The most expensive film in the streaming platform to date. The question is whether it can get into its costs and become the new box of the site.
On paper in any case, the ingredients of success are brought together: a science fiction adventure full of action and humor with a casting of successful stars and experienced directors in control. In detail, The Electric State is the very free adaptation of a graphic novel by Simon Stalenhag, published in 2018. The intrigue follows a teenager in a retro-futuristic past. This orphan traverses the American West with a robot and an eccentric vagabond. His goal: to find his younger brother, missing. Among the themes addressed in the original work, we find nostalgia, but also our relationship to new technologies.
In the casting, Netflix subscribers will recognize the faces of Millie Bobby Brown, star of the platform thanks to Stranger Things Or Enola Holmesbut also Chris Pratt, unforgettable Star-Lord of Galaxy goalkeepers. They are accompanied, in physics or in the vocal cast, by the actors Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once), Giancarlo Esposito (breaking Bad), Stanley Tucci (The Devil dresses in Prada), Woody Harrelson (True Detective, Zombieland), Anthony Mackie (Captain America: Brave New World), Brian Cox (Succession) or Jenny Slate (Never more), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing Sing) And Alan Tudyk (Alien resident, knight, firefly).
The Electric State is therefore a blockbuster that could find its audience on the streaming platform. To find out if this adaptation is worth it, go to Netflix on March 14, 2025, date of its online.