First Look at Tom Hanks’ Dystopian Future inElectric City

The first footage is out from Tom Hanks ’ reanimate web series , Electric City — set in a post - apocalyptical dystopia , where only the rich can give communicating . Hanks produced , does voice act , and helped spell the book for this 90 - minute project , that ’s been in the works for years . Hankstold EWthat at one point he was going to make it with puppets .

But now the first ever footage is up — and distinctly not made with puppets . Each seven - minute instalment will be hosted on Yahoo , starting July 17 . Here ’s the prescribed precis :

On the control surface , the Electric City is utopia and under the surface , Electric City is secrets and heavy - handed commonwealth control . What we found really compelling is that this is stark for a highly digital consultation , a thin - forward audience who likes to apply the medium of the Internet .