Netflix and Skydance Animation have unveiled the official trailer for the long-gestating, neo-noir sci-fi action animated movie “Ray Gunn”.
The film is a passion project of “The Incredibles,” “The Iron Giant,” “Ratatouille” and “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol” director Brad Bird and unfolds in Metropia, a gigantic city in an alternate future as seen from 1939.
Private eye Raymond Gunn, the last human private detective in a futuristic world, is drawn into a case involving aliens, murder, and a multimedia star named Venus Nova.
Oscar winner Sam Rockwell stars as Raymond Gunn alongside Oscar nominee Scarlett Johansson as Venus Nova and actor Tom Waits as Eyera. Rockwell and Johansson previously worked together on “Iron Man 2” and “Jojo Rabbit”.
Bird has previously dubbed this a “blend of sci-fi and classic detective movies from the 40s…it’s Maltese Falcon meets Buck Rogers.”
Bird co-wrote the screenplay with Matthew Robbins and marks his first non-Pixar directorial animated project since 1999’s “The Iron Giant”. John Lasseter, Brad Bird, Lisa Beroud, David Ellison, and Dana Goldberg produce.
