Like it or not, Anthony and Joe Russo have become two of the most prominent names in the contemporary mainstream. This is how it has been since they delivered four of the most celebrated pieces of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’, ‘Captain America: Civil War’, ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ and ‘Avengers: Endgame’. After their departure from the self-proclaimed house of ideas, they have not hesitated to collaborate with streaming platforms. Apple paid them for ‘Cherry’, Prime Video, ‘Citadel’ and Netflix, ‘The Invisible Agent’. In addition, they have also participated in the production of other titles from the company directed by Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos such as ‘Tyler Rake’.
Well, the brothers have a new feature film. It’s called ‘The Electric State’ and it cost $320 million., given its complex filming process, which began in October 2022. Thus, the first setback that the filming had to face was the death of a crew member in a traffic accident. This event forced the halt of production that would officially conclude in February 2023. However, some sequences were re-shot last March and April.
This issue is what has predictably delayed the announcement of its release date. However, according to World of Reel, Netflix has dropped on several occasions that the new work from those responsible for ‘Welcome to Collinwood’ could be released later this year. But, as Jordan Ruimy states on the website, the normal thing would be for the feature film to arrive in 2025.
‘The Electric State’ is an adaptation of the novel of the same name written by Simon Stålenhag, published in 2018. It follows a young orphan who embarks on an adventure through the American West accompanied by a robot and an anxious wanderer. to find his little brother. In its distribution are Millie Bobby Brown (‘Stranger Things’), Chris Pratt (‘Guardians of the Galaxy’), Stanley Tucci (‘The Hunger Games’) and Ke Huy Quan (‘Everything at once everywhere’) and has a script by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, frequent collaborators of the filmmakers.
big budgets
Netflix has been dedicating large budgets to some of its productions for some time. Without going further, ‘The Invisible Agent’ and ‘Red Alert’, with Ryan Reynolds, Dwayne Johnson and Gal Gadot, cost approximately $200 million. For their part, ‘6 in the Shadow’, by Michael Bay, ‘Triple Frontier’, ‘The Adam Project’ and ‘The Irishman’, the film dreamed of by Martin Scorsese, exceeded 100.
It is an issue that is also present in the investments of other platforms. For example, Apple gave 200 million to the mind behind ‘Taxi Driver’ and ‘One of Our Own’ to film ‘The Moon Killers’Ridley Scott for ‘Napoleon’ and Matthew Vaughn for ‘Argylle’.
