As the Russo brothers’ upcoming movie The Electric State is adapted from a graphic novel by Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag, the filmmakers had to read between the lines (or rather, pictures) to bring what was on the page to life. But for viewers’ benefit, the team ultimately chose to feature a section which takes place before the events of the novel.
"How do you make a big, giant fantasy film that honours the level of detail and inventiveness and vastness that Simon suggests in his art, and in his sort of vague narrative?" says Anthony Russo in the new issue of SFX magazine, which features the 30 greatest shows of the SFX era on the cover and hits newsstands on February 26. The answer? To create a backstory explaining how the main characters ended up where we see them at the start of the novel.
