Joe and Anthony Russo’s new Netflix film, The Electrical State, is getting a tie-in sport. The sport is named The Electrical State: Child Cosmo, and it is a prequel to the film.
Described as a “bite-sized journey puzzle sport,” Child Cosmo focuses on the film’s characters Michelle and Chris. The sport is described as being a “narrative-driven sport” and going down over the course of 5 years. You possibly can see footage of the game at Variety.
Child Cosmo launches on March 18 for iOS and Android–only Netflix subscribers can get it. As for the film, the movie debuts on Netflix on March 14.
The sport hails from the Russo brothers’ manufacturing firm, AGBO, which obtained $400 million in funding from gaming large Nexon in 2022 to provide video video games. Anthony Russo advised Variety that the sport, which focuses on the characters Michelle and Chris, will present extra depth than what’s potential within the film alone.
“There’s only a restrict in a two-hour medium to how a lot floor you’ll be able to cowl, when it comes to story. So the sport does maintain one thing very particular when it comes to like, who these persons are, what their relationship is to 1 one other, and the way it evolves and grows over time,” he stated. “And I feel individuals will discover it very relatable. It’s a beautiful, difficult brother-sister relationship in every thing that that entails.”
AGBO is prone to produce extra video video games sooner or later, as Anthony Russo stated a “crucial” facet to the corporate’s mission is to have its movie and TV tasks work “hand-in-hand with our gaming efforts.” Whereas Child Cosmo is a cell sport, Anthony Russo stated it is potential future video games might land on different platforms.
“Each concept has a unique means that it may well greatest be explored and greatest be delivered to audiences or avid gamers for an expertise,” he stated when requested if future video games may very well be AAA console or PC video games. “So we actually wish to tailor every thing to the inventive concept that we’re exploring, evolving and constructing upon, when it comes to how we discover an expression for it.”
AGBO recently hired longtime Fortnite boss Donald Mustard to assist lead its gaming efforts, and Joe Russo stated Mustard is now engaged on “constructing out what we predict the way forward for storytelling may very well be.” He stated this might take the type of “some hybrid between linear and digital and gaming.”
“The three of us collectively are attempting to discover and ideate round what alternatives there may very well be over the subsequent decade utilizing new instruments and new expertise to inform tales and might we make it may well we make it true transmedia, the place the identical property that we’re utilizing for CG in films can be the identical property which might be within the sport, which might be additionally the identical property in a digital expertise,” Joe Russo stated.
Netflix is concerned in gaming, too, although the corporate remains to be looking for its footing within the house. As half this course of, Netflix has closed a AAA gaming studio and canceled plans to launch a number of video games.
The Russo brothers are additionally making a number of extra Marvel films, together with Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars.