Why did [SPOILER] have to die?
How was Disney involved?
And why is Mr. Peanut such a big character?
Chris Pratt and Millie Bobby Brown, ‘The Electric State’.Credit:Netflix
All your burning questions, answered.
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Warning: This article contains spoilers aboutThe Electric State.
By the end of the movie, Michelle and Keats helped the oppressed A.I.
Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt, ‘The Electric State’.Netflix
Is Keats really in love with his robot bestie Herman?
And oh yeah, he heard everything Keats just said.
“Maybe he likes him more than a friend, yeah,” Pratt says.
Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, Ke Huy Quan, ‘The Electric State’.Paul Abell/Netflix
“I love it.
Maybe if there’s a sequel, we’ll explore that further.
I think he loves him maybe more than a friend.”
‘The Electric State’.Netflix
“That came to me in the moment I hadn’t been planning it,” he says.
God, that’s amazing.
kindly put that in the movie…
Millie Bobby Brown and Woody Norman, ‘The Electric State’.Netflix
I’m really proud of it dangerously balancing on the precipice between drama and comedy."
“It was so entertaining and so heartwarming,” Joe says of Pratt’s improvised line.
“It really dimensionalizes the relationship and adds a lot of context to it.
Stanley Tucci, ‘The Electric State’.Paul Abell/Netflix
Another bit of Pratt improvisation that made it into the movie?
Keats' curse, “God bless America.”
“He really wanted version of swearing, and he used it brilliantly,” Anthony adds.
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How was Disney involved in this movie?
In this alternate universe, A.I.
robots created by Walt Disney rebel against humans and ultimately lose a war for their rights against their makers.
“We have a little pull with them,” Anthony says with a laugh.
Naturally, that led them to deciding their fictional robots came from Disney.
“It just felt really delightful to us,” Joe says.
Why is Mr. Peanut the leader of the robot rebellion?
The Russos say they added that particular detail just to lighten the overall tone of the movie.
It just felt like it would give it a folksy kind of charm.”
“He had a bigger role at one point.”
Why did Chris have to die?
That’s just kind of how it all ended up balancing out for us in the story."
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According to Joe, filming that scene with Brown and Normal was “really powerful.”
Will there be a sequel?
The Electric Stateis now streaming on Netflix.
