What’s New: Uprising, Juror #2, Companion, The Electric State

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Pop culture is a never-ending world of updates, teases, trailers, and hopefully releases. What’s New Wednesday is Dorkaholics’ way to keep us all up to date with what’s new across comics, TV, film, games, and more! This week, the focus is on Uprising, Juror #2, Companion, and The Electric State.

1. Uprising: Trailer

Producer Park Chan-wook (Oldboy) finished writing this film in 2019, but handed the directing reins off to Kim Sang-man as he had to direct the series, The Sympathizer. Based on the trailer, Uprising will appeal to those with a taste for Korean historical dramas as well as possibly a remark on classism as modern works such as Parasite and Squid Game have included.

Release Date: On Netflix October 11, 2024

Synopsis: Uprising tells the tale of two men who lived through the war that no one could escape and the chaos that swept over everyone.

2. Juror #2: Trailer

Nicholas Hoult stars in this courtroom drama that puts him in a compromising situation as not only the juror of a murder trial but possibly the actual killer. Mayhaps this film will be a moral practice for Hoult before he enters the world of DC Comics as Lex Luthor in next year’s film.

Release Date: In theaters November 1, 2024

Synopsis: A juror for a high-profile murder trial finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma that could influence the verdict and potentially convict, or free, the wrong killer.

3. Companion: Teaser Trailer

“From the unhinged creators of Barbarian.” ‘Nuff said. The trailer itself is a mashup of nostalgic, romantic showtunes and jarring imagery interspersed with sounds that stir suspense and thrill. And always a delight to see Jack Quaid (The Boys).

Release Date: In theaters January 10, 2025

Synopsis: A billionaire’s death sets off a chain of events for Iris and her friends during a weekend trip to his lakeside estate.

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4. The Electric State: First Look Images

What can’t the Russo brothers do? The Electric State pulls off robots in the 1990s visually well. This film feels dark, somewhat trending towards dystopian if not at the very least depressingly decrepit for a so-called future with robots. However, the robots bring a sort of charm that livens up the film without taking it too far out of its established context. I can’t wait to see the trailer and hear the voices of the robots such as Anthony Mackie playing a robot sidekick to a smuggler played by Chris Pratt.

Release Date: On Netflix 2025

Synopsis: The Electric State is a spectacular adventure from the directors of Avengers: Endgame set in an alternate, retro-futuristic version of the 1990s. Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things, Enola Holmes, Damsel) stars as Michelle, an orphaned teenager navigating life in a society where sentient robots resembling cartoons and mascots, who once served peacefully among humans, now live in exile following a failed uprising. Everything Michelle thinks she knows about the world is upended one night when she’s visited by Cosmo, a sweet, mysterious robot who appears to be controlled by Christopher — Michelle’s genius younger brother whom she thought was dead. Determined to find the beloved sibling she thought she had lost, Michelle sets out across the American southwest with Cosmo, and soon finds herself reluctantly joining forces with Keats (Chris Pratt, Guardians of the Galaxy, Jurassic World), a low-rent smuggler, and his wisecracking robot sidekick, Herman (voiced by Anthony Mackie). As they venture into the Exclusion Zone, a walled-off corner in the desert where robots now exist on their own, Keats and Michelle find a strange, colorful group of new animatronic allies — and begin to learn that the forces behind Christopher’s disappearance are more sinister than they ever expected.