The Electric State star Giancarlo Esposito explains why adapting the bleak novel into a family friendly adventure was the right decision: "I'm going to bring my children with me"
Exclusive: Star Giancarlo Esposito addresses The Electric State’s change in tone from the graphic novel t🐈o fit with a PG-13 audience

Netflix’s upcoming family friendly sci-movie The Electric State could have turned out a whole lot scarier if it had directly followed its s🐼ource material. But, directing duo the Russo brothers and their team decided to lighten some of the themes so the movie could be enjoyed by a wider range of ages, something that star Giancarlo Esposito says is a good thing.
"To me, I feel like this is a movie I'm going to bꦅring my children with me to," says the star to GamesRadar+. "They still have actively developing minds about the world around them who are very concerned about what's going on today. I think it's brilliant that our youth are waking up earlier due to the advent of the cell phone and computers, and I think they're exposed to more at an earlier age."
The Electric State movie stars Millie Bobby Brown, who travels across a war-torn nation with her new robot buddy to find her brother. Along the way she enlists the help of an ex-soldier (Chris🎉 Pratt) and his android-in-crime, but as the four search for answers, they encounter the effects of t⛎he human vs robot war. The film is based on the 2018 graphic novel by Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag, however, readers might find that the movie does tend to skip over a lot of the novel’s scarier images, presumably to fit its PG-13 rating.
Much like the movie, the novel is set 🍌in an alternate '90s where a technological war has ravaged the US and follows a teen girl and her robot as they encounter some quite chilling sights, some of which you can see on . Although the novel isn't all out horror, there is no doubt that the illustrations are much creepier than t꧅he flick. Just some of the book’s reviews call Stålenhag’s story, which is told through a series of paragraphs and artworks, "Hauntingly beautiful, bleak, sad and somber," and "spooky."
However, the movie does bring over the novel’s strong themes of political injustice, prejudice, and the dangers of technology when it falls into the wrong hands. "I think the more they see films like this that allow them to see all o💜f humanity, not only depicted in those who are real, but those who are not real, is really important," adds Esposito. "And so this has to be a movie that young people, especially because one of our stars is a young person, that young people need to understand."
The cast also includes Stanley Tucci, Ke Huy Quan, Anthony Mackie, and Woody Harre൩lson.
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I am an Entertainment Writer here at GamesRadar+, covering TV and film for SFX and Total Film online. I have a Bachelors Degree in Media Production and Journalism and a Masters i🐟n Fashion Journalism from UAL. In the past I have written for local UK and US newspaper outlets such as the Portland Tribune and York Mix and worked in communic𝓰ations, before focusing on film and entertainment writing. I am a HUGE horror fan and in 2022 I created my very own single issue feminist horror magazine.
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