power country Big adventures and even bigger action are promised during a panel at New York Comic Con, where Anthony and Joe Russo’s latest Netflix film was showcased.
The footage, along with discussions with creatives and actors including Chris Pratt and Millie Bobby Brown, were shown to audiences on the Empire stage Thursday, hours after the new trailer went live.
The film, released on Netflix on March 16, is based on Simon Stallenhag’s graphic novel and explores the battle between humans and intelligent machines in the 1990s.
electric state Michelle (Brown), a young woman who owns a cute but mysterious robot, teams up with eccentric drifter Keats (Pratt) on a cross-country adventure to retro-futuristic America in search of her There, brother, an uneasy peace has settled.
Joe jokingly said he was “burned out” with his current job (which includes two upcoming ones) Avengers movie), noting that he and Anthony started working on the project five years ago and were excited to reunite with some of their Avengers: Endgame Collaborators include Platt, Anthony Mackie and writer Christopher Marcus Stephen McFeely.
“This is a real passion project. We’re very, very excited to bring it to audiences. The scale is huge. We love telling really big stories,” Joe said.
Platt said he “100 percent” planned to take a break before accepting the script, but he was drawn to reuniting with former collaborators and the storyline.
“It’s not the kind of movie that would normally be made into a blockbuster style movie. It’s so original and that’s a huge departure,” Platt explained. “I thought these types of movies might be my last chance to be in a big movie like this. I had to treat every opportunity like that. And I did. It’s such a great story. I was moved to tears reading it.
When talking about how the Russo Brothers approached the adaptation, Anthony pointed to the “fascinating” art of Stallen Hager’s graphic novel and likened the experience to adapting a Marvel Comics work into a movie. Captain America: Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War and endgame.
“We just looked at the image, and the story he unfolded in the graphic novel. It’s very opaque. It’s a little hard to follow. You can see it at a glance,” Anthony said. “You can tell there’s a larger world behind what he’s telling you in the graphic novel, and you can only guess.”
Part of the challenge was telling a story in a two-hour feature, rather than in a broader graphic novel. “You have to be more specific with the narrative, so we had a lot of fun digging into it and using his incredible artwork as inspiration to figure out what kind of story we could tell the world,” Anthony said.
Joe and Anthony got into the industry on TV shows such as stunted development and community. Joe noticed a lot community– Stylistic elements from the film, as well as timely dialogue and questions.
“Imagine the 1990s, the late 1950s, when Disney’s animatronics became sentient and started demanding equal rights,” Joe said. “That’s it, that’s where the war breaks out. It cherry-picks the ’90s in a way that supports the storytelling and the themes of the movie.
Platt added of the period: “The ’90s were very reflective of our modern world.” In a behind-the-scenes clip, Platt and Brown show off various props and production design elements that featured 90s nostalgia for movies like Billy Buzz, Cabbage Patch Kids, Barbie, Video and Beanie Babies. It highlights how the film will pay homage to that era while incorporating modern technology and issues.
In terms of the meaning the directors are trying to evoke, Joe notes that they were inspired by the 80s films of Amblin or Robert Zemeckis, as well as Alan Silvestri Silvestri’s score, he noted back to the future.
Brown later revealed that she did little preparation between filming this film and another, but did spend some time thinking about what she wanted her “angsty teen” character to evoke, and sent Drew Barry Photos of Moore in the 1990s. “I’ve never done anything like this before,” Brown said. “It’s very different. It challenges me as an actor…The Russo Brothers have done a great job of guiding my trajectory…I keep coming back to the Russo Brothers and saying, ‘How do you want me to play this or how do you want me to play this? that? “We really found it together.
New footage shows Brown and Platt’s characters being placed in an old Volkswagen van by Keats’s giant robot friend Herman (voiced by Anthony Mackie). As Keats recalls why he has trust issues and how the two eventually met and saved each other in Robot Wars, they stumble upon a seemingly abandoned shopping mall. But when they are attacked and approached by a new robot after their van overturns, they soon discover that it was not abandoned.
After the clip, Joe talked about the backstory of Herman the Robot and revealed more about both the robots and humans who will play starring roles in the movie. “What’s interesting about all the main characters in the movie is that they’ve all experienced some trauma in their lives that they’re running from,” he said. “They’re all dropouts in their own way. Technology is really omnipresent in the movie, but none of them want to be a part of it, and they find their own ways to escape it. Herman is a dropout. He’s quit robots Society. Not involved… They live off the grid, running from the law together.
Brown and Platt also talked about how to use motion capture and other technology to create interesting challenges. “I’m so grateful to the Russo brothers, and the motion capture actors and team, who helped build this world so we didn’t have to do most of the work,” Brown said.
In addition to Pratt and Brown, the film also stars Kai Hui Kwan, Stanley Tucci, Jason Alexander, Giancarlo Esposito and Woody Norman, with Woody Harrelson, Mackie, Brian Coe and Jenny Slater voice the film’s main robots. When discussing the film, the directors talked about power countryThe cast, expressed their love for the ensemble.
“We’re big fans of collective storytelling. You can see it in all of our work: our small films, our big films, our TV work. We think it’s because we come from a large Italian-American family where There were a lot of people in a small room together, talking loudly all the time,” Anthony said. “You just develop a sense of community and an appreciation for the variety of sounds that contribute to your experience.”
To end the panel, Brown shared a heartfelt message about the importance of families watching escapist movies, something the Russells talked about at the beginning of the panel. “It really takes you on a journey,” she said. “The escapism is huge and I think it’s great for families to have that moment of getting out of a world that’s so scary and into a world that’s so transformative.”
