Netflix is gearing up to release its new blockbuster The Electric State, starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt, but fans of the original novel have ripped apart the movie’s final trailer.
Netflix The Electric State trailer drops
Following the trailer dropping on Monday, people have accused the sci-fi comedy action film of ‘butchering’ the source material, after being left baffled by the teaser.
The streamer has spent a reported $320million (£266m) on the movie, directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, with the Marvel filmmakers having worked for over seven years to bring their version of the story to the screen.
New footage shows Stranger Things star Brown, 21, as Michelle, an orphaned teenager, teaming up with Chris Pratt’s drifter Keats on a mission to find her missing younger brother in the dangerous ‘exclusion zone’ following a robot war in the film’s retro-futuristic take on the 90s.
‘We have a chance to tear their whole sick system down,’ she’s heard saying, as she urges humans and bots to ‘fight together against the real enemy’, and their motely crew is seen squaring up to fight as Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch’s Good Vibrations is heard blaring out of a speaker system.
Netflix to have high hopes
Netflix is likely to have great hopes for The Electric State as the Russos helmed one of the streamer’s most-watched films of all time in The Gray Man in 2022. It’s currently seventh on the overall list of Netflix’s most popular films with 139.3m views in its first 91 days, and a sequel since announced.
Star Millie Bobby Brown’s last Netflix film Damsel is also just below The Gray Man on that list, having been watched 138m times in its first three months.
Brown and Pratt are also joined by a star-studded cast for The Electric State, including Oscar-winner Ke Huy Quan, Stanley Tucci, Jason Alexander and Megalopolis star Giancarlo Esposito, as well as the voice talents of Anthony Mackie, Brian Cox, Woody Harrelson and Jenny Slate.
The Electric State is released on Netflix on Friday, March 14.