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Quick Take

• Brad Bird’s upcoming animated feature Ray Gunn, a future-noir detective adventure, drops its first dazzling trailer.
• The film will debut on Netflix in December, with select theatrical and 70mm screenings.
• Sam Rockwell voices the titular character with a star-studded cast including Scarlett Johansson, Tom Waits, Patton Oswalt, and Michelle Rodriguez.
• Nerdist take: It looks pretty incredible, like if Metropolis met Coruscant, but with Rick Deckard’s dress sense. What more do you need?

Brad Bird might be the filmmaker with the best eye and mind for retro-futurism. Before we had a deluge of it from video games, TV, and movies, Bird was out here giving us animated fare like The Iron Giant and The Incredibles. I kind of think he’d be the perfect person to helm a Rocketeer reboot. Disney, let’s do it, shall we? Until that happens, however, at least we have Bird’s latest. It’s a glorious, Art-Deco-inspired riff on things like Blade Runner and ’40s film noir about a private investigator. Behold the first trailer for Ray Gunn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL-xjzQFWsY

The synopsis for the movie is as follows:

In Metropia, a gigantic city in an alternate future as seen from 1939, private eye Raymond Gunn (voiced by Sam Rockwell) is drawn into a case involving aliens, murder and a multimedia star named Venus Nova (voiced by Scarlett Johansson).  

In addition to Rockwell and Johansson, the voice you hear the most in the trailer is legendary musician Tom Waits playing Ray’s grizzled alien partner, Eyera. Get it, like Ira, but he has a big eye? The rest of the stacked cast includes 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.

Netflix/Skydance Animation

I’ve always been a huge fan of this kind of science fiction landscape. It’s not dissimilar from the ahead of its time Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, itself taking inspiration from the Fleischer Superman cartoons from the 1940s. Unlike a lot of Bird’s earlier animated work, however, this isn’t a “kids” movie, as Ray Gunn deals with murder and contains violence, action, language, and suggestive themes. Shudder! These themes are so suggestive!

Netflix/Skydance Animation

This movie is apparently a passion project of Bird’s for nearly 30 years, dating prior to The Iron Giant. I think it looks pretty incredible, like if Metropolis met Coruscant, but with Rick Deckard’s dress sense. What more do you need?

Ray Gunn will premiere on Netflix on December 18, 2026. The film will also debut in select theaters and in limited 70mm on December 4.

Kyle Anderson is the Senior Editor for Nerdist. You can find his film and TV reviews here. Follow him on Letterboxd.

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