Chris Pratt “moved to tears” by new sci-fi film script

Chris Pratt has admitted he was “moved to tears” by his new sci-fi film The Electric State.

The upcoming Netflix film starring Millie Bobby Brown follows a futuristic world of robots and humans as a teenager searches for the brother she thought was dead.

Pratt spoke at New York Comic Con about reading the script by writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, based on the illustrated novel by Simon Stålenhag, and said it was atypical of the current film landscape.

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“It’s not what’s normally made into a blockbuster film like this,” he said Bang Premier). “It’s so original, it’s a huge swing.

“I thought that these kinds of films could be my last opportunity to act in a big film like this. I have to take every opportunity like that. And that’s what I did. It’s just a great story. I was moved to tears reading it.”

The Electric State follows Brown’s Michelle as she “navigates life in a society where sentient robots resembling cartoons and mascots that once served peacefully among humans now live in exile after a failed uprising.”

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She is visited by the robot Cosmo, who was controlled by her seemingly dead brother, and together they venture into the exclusion zone where robots rule alongside the smuggler Keats (Pratt) and the robot pal Herman (Anthony Mackie).

A first trailer for the film was released this week, set to a version of “Champagne Supernova” by Oasis.

Also included are Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan, The boys‘ Giancarlo Espositos and The Hunger Games‘ Stanley Tucci, while Marvel’s Joe and Anthony Russo direct.

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“It felt like a story about broken families and broken people trying to find each other in a broken world,” Joe Russo recently explained Vanity Fair of the project. “It also felt like we were raising our children in a technology-heavy world.

“It could be an aggressive theme if the story were set in the present. Sometimes we find that if you put it in a fable and take it out of its immediacy, you can create space for people to process it differently.”

The Electric State will be released on Netflix on March 14th.