Sorry, Morbius ⏤ your chances of ascending to the top of the streaming charts were always slim, but now they’re just downright impossible. That’s because a certain Netflix queen by the name of Millie Bobby Brown is back at the top of the charts ⏤ or is she?

Brown’s latest project, a neat little flick called The Electric State, is currently sitting comfortably at the top of the Netflix charts, per FlixPatrol. Directed by Joe and Anthony Russo of Avengers: Endgame fame, the sci-fi adventure follows a teenager and her robot as they traverse a war-torn humans-vs.-drones landscape in search of the girl’s missing brother. It’s a true Marvel reunion for the Russos, who reunited with Marvel mainstay Chris Pratt as well as Loki’s Ke Huy Quan, Captain America’s Stanley Tucci, and both Anthony Mackie and Giancarlo Esposito from 2025’s Captain America: Brave New World. And yet, despite all this star power, The Electric State boasts a painful 15% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes at the time of writing. The Atlantic literally called it “instantly forgettable.” Ouch, Mills.

Now look, being #1 on Netflix is nothing to be ashamed of ⏤ if it were indeed true. No offense to FlixPatrol, but per this author’s own Netflix , The Electric State is no longer in the #1 spot, at least not in the United States. In fact, it’s been dethroned by a film that WGTC’s own Christian Bone described as being “offensively fangless” and guilty of treating its audience like “dumb animals.” (Double ouch, Mills.)

Which movies have already dethroned Millie Bobby Brown’s The Electric State?

You read that correctly. The Electric State has already slid out of Netflix’s first-place slot thanks to not one, but two other films ⏤ and one of them is particularly embarrassing. The movie currently in the #2 spot ahead of Electric? Sony’s swelteringly horrific Kraven the Hunter, starring Marvel alum Aaron Taylor-Johnson as a buff beast-man determined to live his life as violently as possible.

Curiously, Kraven boasts the same RT critics score as Electric ⏤ a grim 15% ⏤ but even more shocking is the fact that it has received an even higher audience score: 73% to Electric’s 72. The film currently beating both on the Netflix charts is The Twister: Caught in the Storm. This means that yes, a documentary about tornadoes is creaming Queen Millie’s outing with warring robots and Chris Pratt’s ‘stache. At least we can all breathe a sigh of relief that Morbius is nowhere to be found.

Meanwhile, a Bridgerton star ascends to true streaming royalty

While Millie Bobby Brown comes to with what must be an immense shock following her astronomical Stranger Things success, a Bridgerton star is likely squealing with glee over on Prime. Per Flix, Simone Ashley’s Picture This has quickly risen to the #1 spot following its March 6 release. One look at the trailer will tell you why. Not only does this film star Young Voldemort, but it’s the laugh-out-loud film we all need in a year that so far has been as humorous as New York’s rat infestation. (We’re still waiting on that musical, Gaga.)

Picture This has only been out for two weeks, and yet it’s already saying “buh-bye” to arguably the cinematic event of our lifetime: Barbie. Yep, Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster smash is currently sitting in Prime Video’s #4 spot above such competition as The Super Mario Bros. Movie and that one where Chris Evans engages in fisticuffs with snowmen. Before outranking Netflix queens and Captain America, Ashley appeared in Bridgerton season 2 as Anthony Bridgerton’s love interest, Kate Sharma. Since then, she has appeared in Disney’s The Little Mermaid and an animated movie about cats called 10 Lives ⏤ “because nine just ain’t enough!” (Oi…)

Picture This is currently available to stream on Prime Video, and if you’re in the mood to watch Millie be spectacular even if her film isn’t, you can catch The Electric State only on Netflix. Or, if you really feel like feeling your feels, you can watch this year’s Baby Reindeer, currently in Netflix’s #1 spot for TV shows and unlikely to budge anytime soon.

There are relatively few works that deserve to bear the title of “masterpiece,” but The Electric State is certainly one of them — the quiet, heavy, contemplative atmosphere; a young girl’s colorful-yet-fraught past that gave way to a devastating future; the chilling ruminations on consciousness paired with the darkly evocative drawings. Indeed, Simon Stålenhag’s acclaimed graphic novel is every bit a masterpiece as the Russo brothers’ film adaptation of it is a hodgepodge of creative nadirs.

It may be the case that the Avengers: Infinity War/Endgame brain trust of Anthony and Joe Russo and screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely were entitled to take Stålenhag’s canon in whichever direction they wanted, but if you’re going to take the square peg of graphic literature and shove it into the round hole of a blockbuster film, it should at least be a good blockbuster. Alas, there’s nary a single spark in The Electric State‘s star-studded but uninspired cast, indecisive tonal identity, or even the grossly stilted action sequences that — in all likelihood — are the reason that the Russos decided to make this film at all. They don’t come sloppier than this.

The Electric State stars known non-movie watcher Millie Bobby Brown as Michelle, a teenager living in a cyberpunkified, 1990s-era United States that’s been ravaged by a recent war between humans and robots. Life’s rough for Michelle — her parents and brother died in a car crash, everyone around her is addicted to neurocasters (a VR-like headset made to satisfy even the most minor hedonistic impulse), and she lives with a horrible little foster parent named Ted (Jason Alexander, channeling George Costanza to great effect, if by way of parody).

When a robot claiming to be her deceased brother comes knocking at her door, she sets off on a quest to find his actual body. Chris Pratt is also here as ex-solider/current smuggler Keats, presumably to fill the dad cinema quotient that comes with every Russo production.

If you’re like me and have read Stålenhag’s book, you’ll have no trouble identifying all the criminally diluted plot beats and subject matter that now hardly as meaningful in The Electric State. And yet, that transgression is ultimately a footnote, because there’s absolutely nothing that s as meaningful in The Electric State whatsoever.

Indeed, the characters act out bizarrely so as to get to the next scene quicker, and then heelturn just as incoherently to resolve non-existent tension. The dialogue is a d4 dice roll between stunted worldbuilding, painfully uninterested jokes, insulting clichés, and monotonous, unstudied pathos. All the space in between? Brain rotting needle drops and expensive VFX flourishes — the latter of which probably had a budget that could have funded at least five fantastic scripts instead of this gross filmic hemorrhage.

To that last point, this isn’t just an awful film — it’s directly harmful to the health of the medium. It’s bad enough that the Russos bought the rights to the novel and hacked it apart beyond recognition — at that point, why not just make an original film so as to not lock away those rights for a writer who will make good on the source material? But at least, at that point, there remains the possibility for an exciting new vision to come about. It is, after all, a loose adaptation.

But to lock the film rights to this brimmingly thoughtful IP behind their AGBO production company, only to then violently shove it into the content slopification machine after being trusted with a $320 million production budget (which measures out to about 16 May Decembers)? Well, that’s a move that should frankly land the Russos in director’s solitary confinement (which they’d be broken out of by Kevin Feige and his pack of Marvel yes-men anyway, but I digress).

Compare this to something like The Fall Guy, the David Leitch-directed, Drew Pearce-penned action comedy that dropped into cinemas last May, and was also loosely based on a same-name IP that the film hardly resembles. Like The Electric State to Stålenhag’s book, you’d be hard-pressed to spot even a smidge of the 1980s television series within The Fall Guy, but one of these films is utterly fantastic while the other is soulless junk.

That’s because The Fall Guy brings new ideas and emotions to the table to fill whatever missing space was left by the absence of the television show’s identity. It smartly draws a parallel between Hollywood stuntworkers and movie stars, and how they’re both regarded in the film business, despite what kind of talents they both harbor (hint: if you need a real-life action hero, you’re not calling the movie star). It keeps its emotional core sweet and light so as to gel cohesively with its creative, similarly-light comedic spirit, all while its more confrontational scenes are played as cartoonish to maintain that lightness throughout. The dialogue playfully conveys consistent character dynamics, and the gags are treated as proper, polished comedy beats rather than some annoying, obligatory tally. The Fall Guy loves being a movie.

Nothing of the sort could be said about The Electric State. It guts the book of all its original nuances and doesn’t have the first idea about what it has to offer in their place. As a result, it shoves in a swath of seemingly random and twice as generic blockbuster beats for no other reason than to fill an arbitrary runtime. These beats are snarky one minute, filled with insincere sappiness (complete with an orchestral string suite) the next, and are completely joyless/thoughtless throughout. There’s not a single moving part of The Electric State that indicates even an iota of creative ion from anyone involved. The Electric State hates being a movie — at least, this adaptation of The Electric State hates being a movie.

In an alternate universe, all is right in the world of film. Audiences regularly turn up to the movie theater for hearty, mid-budget dramedies, blockbusters consistently value their stories in equal measure that they value their spectacle, streaming services offer a limited, rotating curation of old classics, smart genre work, and hot new cinematic mavericks, and The Electric State‘s film rights were purchased by someone like Charlie Kaufman, Jane Schoenbrun, or David Lowery.

But we don’t live in that universe. We live in the universe where the Anoras and American Fictions of the world are hardly given the time of day by the public, where the MCU keeps getting away with its brand-driven narrative, where the quantity of streaming titles obliterate the notion of quality, and where the Russos were given $320 million to curl out a cynical hunk of trash that happens to share a name with Simon Stålenhag’s masterpiece. This to say, we’d better get that wormhole open soon — this is getting exhausting.

Much has changed in the world of moviemaking since Avengers: Endgame came out in 2019. For starters, the Marvel machine is no longer a guaranteed blockbuster engine and somehow even Endgame‘s own directors can’t be trusted to be deliver the goods anymore, either. Ahead of their grand return to the MCU with next year’s Avengers: Doomsday, the Russos just deployed Netflix’s most expensive movie of all time, The Electric State, and reviews have been more brutal than Thanos.

Critics have dubbed the $320 million production “totally incoherent,” “soulless digital content,” and potentially even “harmful to movies.” With a abysmal Rotten Tomatoes score of just 18%, it’s easily the worst-received film the Russos have ever made (and they directed You, Me & Dupree!). As you would hope, the filmmaking brothers have itted they have learned some lessons working on this movie that will impact on how they go about making Avengers 5. Although their biggest takeaway is actually something they believe they got right.

The Electric State will have one positive impact on Avengers: Doomsday

One thing that even The Electric State‘s harshest critics all agree on is that the integration of CG characters into its live-action world is on another level from what we typically see from Hollywood, with the various robots that Chris Pratt and Millie Bobby Brown’s characters interact with seem impressively tactile and real. Unsurprisingly, this updated tech is something the Russos are keen to explore further on their next two Avengers films.

When speaking on how their Netflix not-buster has prepared them for Doomsday, Joe Russo said that it’s The Electric State‘s “refinement of motion capture” that is the main thing they will carry with them back into the MCU.

“There’s new methods that are available now to help capture it on set,” he explained in a new interview. “The tricky thing, when you’re working with visual effects, is, if it’s a green screen, we have an award-winning camera operator we work with, named Geoff Haley,” he explained. “He has nothing to frame to, other than a face.”

Anthony Russo then added, “But, when you’re layering in on sets, rough comps into the eyepiece for him, now he can actually do his job. These are some of the advancements that are really enhancing the quality and look of the effects in movies.” 

As epic and as satisfying as Endgame undoubtedly is, some of its visual effects could certainly be improved on — the muddy backdrop of the final battle springs to mind — so this is actually one way in which The Electric State feeding into Doomsday is exciting to hear. In every other department, though, we need the Russos to wipe the slate clean and what they got so right with their earlier Marvel entries: big budgets aren’t as important to a film as big ideas and a big heart.

OK, one more thing we wouldn’t mind from The Electric State is Millie Bobby Brown. She is due a superhero gig now her Stranger Things co-star Sadie Sink has ed Spider-Man 4.

When we first found out that Anthony and Joe Russo would be adapting Simon Stålenhag’s graphic novel The Electric State for a feature film, it was 2017, and so the world had yet to know them as the Avengers: Infinity War, Endgame, and The Gray Man brain trust. As a result, we probably didn’t think much of it.

But now, the Russos are synonymous with spectacle-driven franchise filmmaking, and given that the graphic novel is a slow, quiet, meditative musing on the human condition and the trajectory of it, this is an odd, worrisome pairing indeed.

And now that the first trailer for The Electric State has finally descended upon us, those aforementioned fears threaten to be realized in a (literally) big way.

Netflix princess Millie Bobby Brown stars as Michelle, a young orphan living in a future, post-war America ravaged by giant robots and an indifferent humanity, and who’s grieving her missing brother. One day, she meets a small, friendly robot who claims to know the location of her brother, and after later teaming up with a smuggler who looks a lot like Chris Pratt, the adventure begins.

Now, everything about The Electric State film adaptation is, from a production standpoint, out of control. The budget is reportedly $320 million (just shy of the $325 million low estimation of Infinity War‘s budget), and features such names as Ke Huy Quan, Stanley Tucci, Giancarlo Esposito, Brian Cox, Jenny Slate, Anthony Mackie, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Alexander, Alan Tudyk, and Woody Harrelson. Together with the Russos at the directorial helm with a script from Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (also of MCU fame), “stacked” doesn’t even begin to describe The Electric State, and the epic spectacle inherent in the trailer only exemplifies this further.

The only problem? An epic spectacle is precisely what The Electric State doesn’t need to be. As mentioned previously, the graphic novel’s prestige isn’t predicated on giant robot battles or blockbuster quips designed to prevent tension rather than build upon it, but on thoughtful attention to how we’re losing ourselves in an unnatural world and the overwhelming-but-necessary emotions that come with such introspection. In this way, The Electric State film adaptation has not inspired hope with this trailer.

That’s not to say that we can bank on it being dead on arrival, though. The film’s apparent comedy stylings guarantee levity, which is an important tool when it comes to engaging with heavy themes and topics, and together with the action-packed scenes that help to comprise the film’s marketing promise, perhaps this is all a front to draw in mass audiences, who will then be confronted with a deeper film. This is precisely what Civil War — the second-highest-grossing film in A24’s history and also one of the most important films of 2024 — did with its marketing (sans the comedy).

And who knows? Even if The Electric State fails as an adaptation, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it won’t be a good movie. It’s just a matter of seeing what it accomplishes instead of a more faithful adaptation, and if that accomplishment justifies the use of this IP. Whatever happens, we’ll find out soon enough when The Electric State lands exclusively on Netflix on March 14, 2025.

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The team that gave us the contentious action thriller The Gray Man is making another balloon-budget movie.

Joe and Anthony Russo are directing The Electric State for Netflix from a screenplay by their old Infinity War/Endgame buddies (and The Gray Man co-scribes) Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, based on the popular graphic novel of the same name by Simon Stålenhag. We imagine the reportedly over $300 million budget was partly employed in securing some of Hollywood’s biggest names for the film including Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, Ke Huy Quan, Stanley Tucci, and Brian Cox.

Brown plays Michelle, a 19-year-old girl traveling across the American West in search of her brother with the help of a robot sidekick. The visual aspect is arguably the most important in the post-apocalyptic war-ravished retro-futuristic world created by Stålenhag, so visual effects, practical and special, likely received special attention during and after production.

Or perhaps the Russos are just trying to maintain the tradition, seeing as it’s their own movie they’re dethroning in the podium for Netflix’s most expensive movies ever (The Gray Man held the honors previously with an over $200 million budget).

When is The Electric State coming out?

The Electric State is scheduled to hit Netflix in 2024. The streamer hasn’t provided a more specific release date yet. When Netflix first took the reigns of its distribution from Universal Pictures, the plan was to release it in theatres exclusively for a week in January 2024 before it moved to the streamer.

The sci-fi adventure film was shot between October 2022 and February 2023 in Atlanta, with additional reshoots taking place between March and April 2024.

Few genres are capable of dancing across the entertainment spectrum quite as unreservedly as science fiction; for every meditative spacewalk that wears its Kubrick reverence on its sleeve, there’s a loud, green-screen enabled faceplant biding its time for a Snyder Cut.

Consider The Electric State, the graphic novel by Simon Stålenhag that exemplifies cybernetic, post-apocalyptic wanderlust. Furthermore, consider The Electric State, the film adaptation of the graphic novel that’s probably going to deviate from its source material and manifest as an action thriller; why else would you hire the Infinity War–Endgame brain trust of Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, and the Russo brothers?

That’s our assumption, but what do we know for sure about this mysterious, stacked Netflix project?

What is The Electric State about?

Based on the aforementioned graphic novel of the same name, The Electric State is set in an alternate history in the United States in the 1990s, where a war between humans and robots have left parts of the country in ruins.

Michelle, a teenager who was orphaned on of the war, meets a small, friendly robot and a strange survivor during her travels, and the three of them set out together in search of Michelle’s younger brother.

Who stars in The Electric State?

Who doesn’t star in the film would be a better question. Millie Bobby Brown spearheads the cast as Michelle, while Chris Pratt co-stars as Keats, who’s likely the third member of Michelle’s party. Also among The Electric State‘s ranks are Ke Huy Quan, Stanley Tucci, Jason Alexander, Woody Norman, and Martin Klebba.

And that’s just the live-action cast; loaning their vocal talents to the effort are Brian Cox, Jenny Slate, Anthony Mackie, Billy Bob Thornton, and Giancarlo Esposito as a character named Marshall, who we understand is the film’s antagonist.

As expected, the Russos direct a script from Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, just like The Winter Soldier, Civil War, Infinity War, Endgame, and The Gray Man.

It bears pondering why this quartet, with their bombastic filmmaking tendencies, took so much interest in the slow landscape of The Electric State; will they make a severe turn away from the source material for the sake of operating in their bread and butter, or is this a matter of flexing some less-targeted storytelling muscles? It’s quite an omen, in any case.

When does The Electric State release?

At the time of writing, all we know is that The Electric State will be making its bow on Netflix sometime this year, which we’re already halfway through at this point. In other words, we won’t be waiting terribly long for the return of the Russos; here’s hoping they return to their MCU form rather than maintain their streaming-exclusive form (which has burdened us with the likes of The Gray Man and Cherry).

As much as they’ve found massive success since leaving the Marvel Cinematic Universe behind, the debate continues to rage as to whether or not Joe and Anthony Russo are great filmmakers, or simply the directors who made the most of working from Kevin Feige’s playbook.

Tom Holland-starrer Cherry wasn’t exactly a hit with critics, and the same can be said of The Gray Man, while the whole Citadel fiasco has a lot of work to do in order to convince everyone that it’s anything else but a waste of money. Ironically, stepping back as writers and/or producers reaped much better rewards on the Extraction franchise, with the next test of their credentials coming in The Electric State.

Earmarked for release next year, the $200 million Netflix sci-fi blockbuster boasts a star-studded cast that features Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, Michelle Yeoh, Stanley Tucci, Ke Huy Quan, Anthony Mackie, Billy Bob Thornton, and many more, with the Stranger Things veteran showering her co-star with the highest of praise in an interview with Glamour.

“To be able to go toe-to-toe with Chris Pratt! It’s a very exciting opportunity that I never thought I’d be able to have, to be able to be treated the same as him and to be looked at and respected the same as him on the set by the production, by the studio. He’s such a great man, but also a great actor and a great co-star. And you rarely get that in this business, to work with men that really you and understand you and let you shine.”

Pratt was equally as enthusiastic, commending the 19 year-old for what she’s brought to the table in a career that’s only just getting started.

“In a way it’s hard to believe she’s so young. There’s a rawness to her performances. She’s present, capable, talented, and her process is like shooting from the hip – it takes real confidence. The people who can do it are especially electric.”

Having been involved with three of Netflix’s Top 10 most-watched movies ever through The Gray Man, Extraction, and its sequel, it would be foolish to bet against the Russos and their stacked ensemble doing it again when The Electric State lands in 2024.

Fans are sure Millie Bobby Brown is returning for season 2 of the TV series Wednesday after the star posted an intriguing photo on her social media.

The resident Queen of Netflix set tongues wagging when she took to Instagram to post a photo of herself in a suspiciously familiar parking lot with the caption, “On Wednesdays, we work.”

Fans went wild as they picked up on the possible innuendo of Brown’s playful caption. Many felt convinced that the star must be hinting that she has ed the cast of Wednesday – a possibility too sensational for some fans to contemplate.

18493 wrote, “I’m convinced this is a hint for her bring on the season 2 set of Wednesday.“

A called aless2ndro replied, “Not me reading the caption and thinking you are on the set of Wednesday,” with a skull emoji.

Gvkija — another excited fan — also read between the lines, writing, “Same. I read it twice to understand what she meant,” adding a crying emoji.

Adhavsanthosh54 was on board with the idea, writing, “Wait, is it like a hint that you might be filing for Wednesday Season 2? Just a guess.”

Other fans were unconvinced of the chances that Brown will the cast of Wednesday. Instead, they speculated that it is far more likely that she’s working on prior commitments. Many guessed that she had started shooting the Russo Brothers’ sci-fi film The Electric State – an project in which she will star.

Strangerthingspaintv simply wrote, “The Electric State.”

Another faction of fans suggested that it’s possible that she might be shooting scenes for Stranger Things. So far, Brown has remained tight-lipped. Perhaps she’s getting a kick out of the mounting suspense among her 61.4 million followers as they anticipate what might be in the works for the star.

At the moment there is no official confirmation on which project Brown is working on. One thing is clear: she enjoys keeping her fans guessing.

Hey! It’s-a me! Chris Pratt’s Mustache-io! The Super Mario Bros. Movie star Chris Pratt tweeted out his seasonal good wishes for a happy coming year on New Year’s Day and included a snap of his wife, Katherine, and some seemingly brand-new foliage on his upper lip. And yes, the Mario fans were not holding back on their opinions.

The Star-Lord actor posed on what appeared to be an outdoor bar patio side-by-side with his wife, self-help author Katherine Schwarzenegger, sporting a new set of lip whiskers — which didn’t really bear that much resemblance to the Mario of Nintendo fame that Pratt will be voicing in the film. The new ‘stache looked more like Pratt was getting ready to film a new western. Or perhaps it’s the look he’ll be sporting in the Russo Brothers’ The Electric State, slated to come out next year.

You’re rocking that stache, just like Mario. Whoo-Hoo! pic.twitter.com/stmTxOzrEt

— Tyler (@tyler_cfb91) January 3, 2023

Whatever the reason for his new lip warmer, Fans were quick to point out that Pratt and Mario now had (at least) a mustache in common. Pratt’s casting as the omnipresent plumber protagonist of the long-running video game franchise has drawn a lot of ire from fans, many of whom find little resemblance between Pratt’s own persona and that of Mario himself.

Starting the year off with a lot of Stache points is always a great idea! pic.twitter.com/LJ4ChbTObd

— Reino do Cogumelo (@reinodocogumelo) January 2, 2023

Growing a mustache won’t make you a better Mario. You’re still the worst voice in the movie

— Connor Breen (@MadHatterBoy) January 3, 2023

Despite the contention around Pratt’s casting, however, fan reaction seemed evenly split between Pratt ers giving their thumbs up and hardcore haters who weren’t granting the Guardian of the Galaxy any slack. A significant amount of Pratt ers who weren’t wearing their Mario fandom on their sleeves also seemed to like the new look, with many seeing a resemblance between the newly-mustachioed Pratt and ex-Batman Christian Bale.

I can’t be the only one who sees the similarities!! pic.twitter.com/VndPBbwv2x

— Padawan Of Christ (@PadawanOfChrist) January 2, 2023

However, it may have nothing to do with Mario whatsoever. Maybe Pratt is just taking a strong “method” style approach to his next voiceover role: Garfield.

Netflix might be canceling fan favorite shows left, right, and center (with Fate: The Winx Saga becoming the latest casualty), while also infuriating fans of established shows by replacing Henry Cavill’s Geralt of Rivia with Liam Hemsworth beginning with season 4 of The Witcher, but the platform isn’t going to give up on mega budget blockbusters packed with star power – and they don’t come much more epic than Joe and Anthony Russo’s The Electric State.

Adapted from the graphic novel of the same name by Simon Stålenhag, the $200 million epic boasts the streaming service’s crown jewel Millie Bobby Brown in the lead role, with coming from Michelle Yeoh, Stanley Tucci, Jason Alexander, Brian Cox, Jenny Slate, and Chris Pratt.

In a rare turn of events for such a high-profile project, the Avengers: Endgame and The Gray Man directors hand-picked Brown for the leading role as their number one candidate, something she itted was practically “unheard of” in Hollywood during an interview with Collider to promote the impending arrival of Enola Holmes 2.

“The fact that they were so dead-set on me playing her, just the fact that you… That trust in a director with an actor, it’s really unheard of, and I don’t really get to experience that very often. So the fact that they wanted me only made me want them even more. And to be able to have that opportunity to make this movie with them has been such an amazing experience, and it’s just been a really good collaborative effort. It feels like I’m actually working with, I mean, real, real experienced, experienced team. Their team is incredible, the directors are amazing, obviously, and I’ve got an amazing cast to be alongside.”

The 18 year-old is no stranger to effects-heavy epics after her roles in Stranger Things, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and Godzilla vs. Kong, but shouldering the burden as the star of a high concept story that finds a teenager trekking across the desolate wasteland of post-apocalyptic America with a robot in tow to try and track down her younger brother is a different beast.

Production is underway on The Electric State as recent set photos will attest, but it could be a while before the end product makes its way to the small screen.

In of success, popularity, and volume of high-profile projects in development, it’s hardly a stretch of the imagination to call Millie Bobby Brown the jewel in Netflix’s crown of exclusive in-house content.

At just 18 years of age, the actor and producer has already become a global superstar through the success of Stranger Things, while she spearheaded the development of Enola Holmes – which ended up as one of the platform’s most-watched original films of all-time, with the second of what’s destined to be many installments arriving next week.

On top of that, she’s also currently shooting $200 million sci-fi The Electric State with the Russo brothers directing, and we haven’t even gotten around to mentioning fantasy epic Damsel, literary adaptation The Thing About Jellyfish, crime thriller The Girls I’ve Been, or the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, all of which are heading to Netflix.

Speaking to Netflix Queue, Brown itted that she’s determined to prove herself on either side of the camera, and she’s feeling increasingly comfortable pulling double duty despite her youth and relative inexperience.

“This isn’t just a label. I had to prove a lot because I am young and I am a girl, and people could think that this is something that has been handed to me. I wanted to prove myself on the first [Enola Holmes]. On the second one, I felt more comfortable because I knew I was capable of it.

Young women are dragged down for many different things. If it’s our maturity, if it’s the way we dress, if it’s the things we say, if it’s the choices we make, we will never be enough. It’s for us to find camaraderie and sisterhood in that. And to stand together and say, ‘We are enough.’ We have to stick together, breaking those stereotypes and standards.”

There’s no denying that Brown has a massive career in front of her as both an on-camera talent and prolific producer, and you can guarantee Netflix will be doing everything in its power to ensure that her biggest gigs remain firmly under the streaming service’s roof.

The good times keep on rollin’ for Doctor Who fans. Following the mind-blowing Thirteenth Doctor finale “The Power of the Doctor” airing at the weekend, and revealing that David Tennant is our new Time Lord — at least for a handful of specials — the BBC has unveiled a game-changing partnership that should open out the show to a bigger audience than ever before. Plus, the series has got itself a spiffy new logo. Although the internet has only got one thing to say about it.

The Doctor is coming to Disney Plus!

Yes, Doctor Who is officially headed to Disney Plus. As was rumored earlier this year, the BBC and the House of Mouse have come together in an unprecedented union to make the platform the show’s official streaming home outside of the U.K. This means that fans can now find the Time Lord’s adventures in the same place as the Marvel universe and the Star Wars saga. Is that a geek fantasy come true or a nightmarish sign of Disney’s disquieting monopoly on pop culture? You decide.

Doctor Who becomes Dogtor Who after unlikely Paw Patrol comparisons

Along with the Disney announcement, the Beeb has unveiled a gorgeous new diamond-shaped logo for the show that harks back to Tom Baker’s seminal tenure in the 1970s. At least, that’s how it was intended. While hardcore fans are appreciating the old-school vibes, all the rest of the internet can see is the Paw Patrol logo, with everyone making the same joke on social media. Although, given that the Who logo debuted in 1974, Paw Patrol is the one that’s the copy. Do your research, people.

Ncuti Gatwa proves he’s a secret Whovian with his obscure choice of ideal villain

Of course, Tennant won’t be in the driving seat for long, as Ncuti Gatwa will have taken over as our full-time new Doctor by the end of next year. And it seems the Sex Education alum is something of a secret fan, as indicated by his surprisingly obscure choice of ideal villain that he wants to face during his tenure. Interestingly, it’s a super-powerful foe who only appeared in one of Tennant’s episodes, so it’s just possible there’s more to Gatwa’s pick than meets the eye and he’s giving us a hint at what’s to come.

Millie Bobby Brown partners with the Russos in first look at new Netflix sci-fi thriller

Moving away from the Whoniverse for a moment, our first look at the Russo Brothers’ next Netflix production has arrived, in the form of some set photos that showcase the movie’s lead — another of the platform’s mainstays, Millie Bobby Brown. The Avengers: Endgame duo and the Stranger Things star are working on The Electric State, in which a runaway teen and her robot sidekick travel across the country in an alternate 1997. Expect it on Netflix sometime next year.

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