The Russo Brothers Nab ‘the Electric State’ For It’s Muschietti

The Russo brothers nab the rights to The Electric State for IT’s Muschietti The Russo Brothers Studio has just won the rights to the illustrated novel “The Electric State” from author Simon Stålenhag, according to Deadline. IT director Andy Muschietti is currently in negotiations to direct and to produce with Barbara Muschietti. Joe and Anthony Russo are set to produce as well, with Russell Ackerman and John Schoenfelder, with Russo Brothers Studio production head Mike Larocca as executive producer. The Electric State has reportedly been a hot property with a number of studios and directors looking to be a part of the project. The Electric State will be adapted by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFelly who wrote Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War and its sequel, all of which were directed by the Russo brothers. Stålenhag will also executive produce. The book, which was the subject of a Kickstarter campaign, is described this way: “In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her yellow toy robot travel west through a strange USA, where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside heaped together with the discarded trash of a high tech consumerist society in decline.