“Mr. Peanut signed the Treaty of Surrender with President Clinton on the White House lawn today.”
This is a real line of dialogue—one that is uttered with absolute somber sincerity—from the new Netflix movie, The Electric State, which began streaming yesterday.
Somehow, this is not a joke about product placement from one of those fake movies on 30 Rock. Instead, at an estimated production budget of $320 million, The Electric State is the most expensive Netflix movie to date. And, apparently, what $320 million gets you is a bizarre, motion-captured-CGI version of the Planters mascot, leading the working-class revolution. That’s a lot of money for a peanut commercial!
Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, and written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely—who adapted the screenplay from Simon Stålenhag’s graphic novel of the same name—The Electric State stars Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt, and takes viewers to an alternate-history version of
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