Netflix has released a second trailer for Ray Gunn, Brad Bird's long-in-the-works animated sci-fi noir feature from Skydance Animation. The trailer dives into Metropia, the gigantic city where the film's old-fashioned detective story plays out against a retrofuturistic skyline.
Metropia is an alternate future imagined from 1939, where humans and aliens live side by side, flying cars speed through the skies and buildings stretch a mile high. Tiny "pry bots" now handle much of a private detective's legwork, leaving Ray and his partner among the last investigators still working cases the old-fashioned way.
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The film follows private eye Raymond Gunn, who is drawn into a case involving aliens, murder and Venus Nova, a multimedia star at the center of Metropia's spotlight. Sam Rockwell voices Ray, Scarlett Johansson voices Venus Nova, one of the city's biggest and most controversial megastars, and Tom Waits voices Eye-Ra, Ray's cyclopean alien partner.
Alan Tudyk, Matt Berry, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Chernus, Kether Donohue, Michelle Rodriguez, Aasif Mandvi, Matt Jones, Kathryn Hunter, John Ratzenberger, Justin Peck and Patton Oswalt round out the voice cast. Bird directs from his own original story and a screenplay he wrote with Matthew Robbins, with John Lasseter, Bird, Lisa Beroud, David Ellison and Dana Goldberg producing for Skydance Animation.
Bird, the two-time Oscar winner behind The Incredibles and Ratatouille, first dreamed up the film at the beginning of his career. "The elevator pitch I came up with is The Maltese Falcon meets Buck Rogers," he said in a Netflix Tudum feature, pointing to the Bogart detective pictures and noir classics that shaped it. "Animation is too fun a medium, and too interesting, to limit what kind of stories can be told."
Ray Gunn opens in select theaters, including limited 70mm screens, on December 4, and streams on Netflix starting December 18, 2026.
Source: Netflix
