According to Deadline.com, Russo Brothers have signed on to direct ‘The Electric State’ from the sci-fi graphic novel by Simon Stalenhag.
“Following a heated bidding war, Universal Pictures has landed the rights to an adaptation of the graphic novel The Electric State with Millie Bobby Brown attached to star and Joe and Anthony Russo on board to direct. The Russos will also produce through their AGBO banner. Mike Larocca will also produce under AGBO. The package went out to buyers earlier this week and Universal was quick to acquire the highly-coveted property.”
Some fans have described the Sci-Fi graphic novel as an illustrated masterpiece.
–
Amazon describes the book: “In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, along with the discarded trash of a high-tech consumerist society addicted to a virtual-reality system. As they approach the edge of the continent, the world outside the car window seems to unravel at an ever faster pace, as if somewhere beyond the horizon, the hollow core of civilization has finally caved in.”
-“Simon Stålenhag is the internationally lauded artist and author of Tales from the Loop, Things from the Flood, and The Electric State—the narrative art books that stunned the world with a vision of an alternate 1980s and 1990s where technology had invaded the tranquil landscapes to form an entirely new universe of the eerie and the nostalgic. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden.”
