New Trailer For Brad Bird’s ‘Ray Gunn’ Arrives Ahead Of Limited 70mm Run

Netflix has released a second trailer for Ray Gunn, the animated sci-fi noir that The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, and Ratatouille director Brad Bird has been trying to make for more than 30 years.

The film opens in select theaters December 4, with limited 70mm screenings, before streaming on Netflix December 18.

Set in Metropia, a city built around Bird’s idea of what the future might have looked like from 1939, the film follows private detective Raymond Gunn (Sam Rockwell) and his one-eyed alien partner Eye-Ra (Tom Waits) as a murder case draws them into the orbit of celebrity Venus Nova (Scarlett Johansson).

The film is a Skydance Animation production, with animation work by Cinesite’s Montreal and Vancouver studios.

At the Ottawa International Animation Festival in September, Bird and his crew told Cartoon Brew how they borrowed from live-action noir. The team used Chinatown as a reference for its choice of lenses, and Bird often favored a wide 28mm lens, even when it distorted the characters.