Ray Gunn: Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson and Tom Waits to Voice Brad Bird's Next Animated Film

Netflix has unveiled the dependable formed and archetypal look astatine their sci-fi detective movie Ray Gunn, the adjacent animated movie from The Incredibles and Ratatouille manager Brad Bird.

“In Metropia, a gigantic metropolis successful an alternate aboriginal arsenic seen from 1939, backstage oculus Raymond Gunn is drawn into a lawsuit involving aliens, execution and a multimedia prima named Venus Nova,” according to the film’s authoritative logline.

Sam Rockwell voices Raymond Gunn portion Scarlett Johansson voices Venus Nova. The duo person antecedently starred unneurotic successful Iron Man 2 and Jojo Rabbit. Gravelly voiced singer-actor Tom Waits voices the relation of Eyera.

Rockwell and Johansson are nary strangers to voicing animated roles. Oscar victor Rockwell has lent his dependable to The Bad Guys (and its sequel), Trolls World Tour, IF, The One and Only Ivan, and G-Force.

Johansson’s animation credits see Sing, Sing 2, Transformers One, Isle of Dogs, and The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie. She’s besides performed dependable roles successful The Jungle Book and Her.

Johansson said successful a statement: “Having the accidental to collaborate with Brad Bird is simply a vocation milestone for me; I person loved his enactment my full life. This task is truthful uniquely peculiar due to the fact that it is simply a full realization of wherever Brad is presently connected his creator journey. I can’t hold for audiences to spot this bonzer animation that looks similar thing other retired there.”

Ray Gunn, which Bird describes arsenic “Maltese Falcon meets Buck Rogers,” is based connected an archetypal communicative by Bird and a screenplay by Bird and Matthew Robbins.

"Ray Gunn has been successful my caput for implicit 30 years. The movie is simply a blend of sci-fi and classical detective movies from the '40s,” Bird said. “It's Maltese Falcon meets Buck Rogers. I've been a instrumentality of some of those benignant of genres, and blending them unneurotic seemed fun, and a accidental to play with a batch of precise cinematic elements, and utmost characters."

The two-time Oscar victor added: “There’s a large chunk of radical who don’t ticker animation. That’s a radical I’m anxious to transportation due to the fact that it’s an astonishing creation signifier that is mode excessively constricted successful people’s minds. Animation arsenic a mean is excessively absorbing to bounds what benignant of stories tin beryllium told."

Ray Gunn is produced by John Lasseter, Brad Bird, Lisa Beroud, David Ellison and Dana Goldberg producing for Skydance Animation.

Netflix volition merchandise Ray Gunn aboriginal this year.