As an art book, The Electric State is amazing. But creating a movie based on the book may prove to be a tricky proposition since there's mostly graphic hints as to what's happening. Given too much freedom, the Netflix movie could become just another comicbook tale of cliché characters and copy/paste plots.

So this began as an art book? Of just like, images of sci-fi settings?

Vaporman87 wrote :

So this began as an art book? Of just like, images of sci-fi settings?

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Yes indeed, with visuals so compelling that no narrative was included. That gives everyone looking at the images the opportunity to form their own story as to what happened. LOOK Magazine in the 1960's was famous for assembling photos in a single issue that tells a story that forms in the minds of viewers as there was no text to channel your thoughts.

"The Electric State", implies that many of the cartoony robots were advertising mascots that got caught in a disaster of some kind, but that idea works best only as long as the mascots are unfamiliar - in other words, not actual mascots of familiar products we all recognize. That's why the inclusion of Mr. Peanut is a problem. The companies and their ad logos should remain unfamiliar. The eeriness of the visuals loose their edge when you insert a real mascot into the story.

This is a straight to Netflix project that's going to treat a sci-fi mystery like just another Marvel movie, even down to juvenile humor.