Netflix and Skydance Animation announced today that Ray Gunn, their new animated feature from two-time Academy Award winner Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille), will feature the voices of Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson and Tom Waits.
The streamer also unveiled first look stills, which you can view above and below.
A longtime passion project for Bird, Ray Gunn is set In Metropia, a gigantic city in an alternate future as seen from 1939, where private eye Raymond Gunn (Rockwell) is drawn into a case involving aliens, murder and a multimedia star named Venus Nova (Johannson).
“Ray Gunn has been in my mind for over 30 years,” Bird said in a directors’ statement. “The film is a blend of sci-fi and classic detective movies from the ’40s…it’s Maltese Falcon meets Buck Rogers. I’ve been a fan of both of those sort of genres, and blending them together seemed
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