The Russo Brothers’ New Movie ‘The Electric State’ Has a Surprising Tie-In to Walt Disney and Disneyland
Avengers: Endgame filmmakers Joe and Anthony Russo have a new film coming to Netflix titled Electric State, and it has a surprising Disney connection.
The film presents an alternate history in which a battle between humanity and artificial intelligence has ended, leaving the Earth devastated. Against the backdrop of this ruination, society is attempting to rebuild civilization without the help of AI.
The film stars Millie Bobby Brown as Michelle, a young woman who is searching for her long-lost brother. To track her sibling down in the American West, she teams up with Keats (Chris Pratt), a war veteran and long-haul trucker, and Kid Cosmo, a remote-controlled robot.


Photo: Vanity Fair
While the film sounds interesting in its own right, The Electric State also has a surprising Disney tie-in.
Walt Disney Is Responsible For the Rise in Artificial Intelligence
According to the film’s backstory, in this alternate version of history, Walt Disney’s early Disneyland animatronics became surprisingly advanced during their development. A few decades later, the intelligent robots revolted against their human creators.


Photo: D23
“These robots had the most benign appearance possible, and they end up feeling that they’re being mistreated and have a desire to be treated as equals with humans, which leads to a war,” Joe Russo told Vanity Fair. “And now you have this strange dichotomy playing out where these very pleasing and palatable service bots are now trying to kill you.”
At the heart of The Electric State is a philosophical argument about what makes something “alive.”
“You can recognize humanity in technology, and you can recognize inhumanity in humans,” Anthony Russo says for this exclusive first look. “Both things are possible. That’s the struggle.”


Photo: Disney
Viewers will have to wait until The Electric State debuts on Netflix next year to find out what happens.
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