Netflix and the Russo Brothers announce The Electrical State: Child Cosmo prequel online game forward of the movie’s March 14 launch.
Netflix and The Russo Brothers are taking a “go big or go home” strategy to their upcoming movie, The Electrical State. Shortly after the motion sci-fi movie’s March 14 launch, a prequel online game based mostly on The Electrical State is about to drop. The cell sport, The Electrical State: Child Cosmo, is described as a “bite-sized adventure puzzle game” specializing in Michelle and Chris. “This narrative-driven game takes place before the events of the movie and spans five years, blending gameplay with emotional storytelling to create an immersive experience,” stated AGBO, the Russos media firm.
The Electrical State: Child Cosmo debuts on March 18 on iOS and Android. The sport is free to play however just for Netflix subscribers.
Right here’s the official synopsis for The Electrical State courtesy of Netflix:
“The Electric State is a spectacular adventure from the directors of Avengers: Endgame set in an alternate, retro-futuristic version of the 1990s. Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things, Enola Holmes, Damsel) stars as Michelle, an orphaned teenager navigating life in a society where sentient robots resembling cartoons and mascots, who once served peacefully among humans, now live in exile following a failed uprising. Everything Michelle thinks she knows about the world is upended one night when she’s visited by Cosmo, a sweet, mysterious robot who appears to be controlled by Christopher — Michelle’s genius younger brother whom she thought was dead. Determined to find the beloved sibling she thought she had lost, Michelle sets out across the American southwest with Cosmo, and soon finds herself reluctantly joining forces with Keats (Chris Pratt, Guardians of the Galaxy, Jurassic World), a low-rent smuggler, and his wisecracking robot sidekick, Herman (voiced by Anthony Mackie). As they venture into the Exclusion Zone, a walled-off corner in the desert where robots now exist on their own, Keats and Michelle find a strange, colorful group of new animatronic allies — and begin to learn that the forces behind Christopher’s disappearance are more sinister than they ever expected.”
Along with launching The Electrical State: Child Cosmo, the Russo Brothers need to broaden into the online game market. They just lately employed Pete Wanat of Nifty Video games as their interactive expertise president. The Russos plan to develop no less than three transmedia initiatives based mostly on authentic concepts. Nonetheless, they’re open to creating video games based mostly on licensed properties like Avengers: Doomsday, Avengers: Secret Wars, and their Prime Video TV sequence Citadel.
“We would definitely be open to it,” Joe Russo instructed Selection about creating interactive experiences based mostly on their related initiatives. “Right now, what we’re doing is creating new IP. At AGBO, we want to tell new stories. We want to tell new stories with new characters and new worlds that people haven’t seen before. So Anthony and I and Donald are working together to build out new worlds. And we have three that we’re currently working on that the intention is, for every world we build to have the scale and depth of a “Star Wars” universe, however in a unique style. After which we’ll construct supplies round these new worlds. We’ll inform tales in numerous methods utilizing totally different media in these worlds.”
When requested if The Electrical State: Child Cosmo is canon, the Russos stated it examines the connection between Michelle (Millie Bobby Brown) and Christopher (Chris Pratt), masking occasions earlier than and after the movie. Past being enjoyable to play, the sport goals to offer these characters extra context past the movie’s two-hour runtime. The Russos say gamers and followers might have a look at the sport as an enlargement of the movie, as Michelle and Chris’s relationship has extra to supply than what time permits within the film.
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