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Netflix and Skydance Animation announced coming that Ray Gunn, their caller animated characteristic from two-time Academy Award victor Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille), will characteristic nan voices of Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson and Tom Waits.
The streamer besides unveiled first look stills, 1 of which you tin position above.
A longtime passion task for Bird, Ray Gunn is group In Metropia, a gigantic metropolis successful an alternate early arsenic seen from 1939, wherever backstage oculus Raymond Gunn (Rockwell) is drawn into a lawsuit involving aliens, execution and a multimedia prima named Venus Nova (Johannson)
“RAY GUNN has been successful my mind for complete 30 years,” Bird said successful a directors’ statement. “The movie is simply a blend of sci-fi and classical detective movies from nan ’40s…it’s Maltese Falcon meets Buck Rogers. I’ve been a instrumentality of some of those benignant of genres, and blending them together seemed fun, and a chance to play pinch a batch of very cinematic elements, and utmost characters.”
Bird added, “There’s a large chunk of group who don’t watch animation. That’s a group I’m anxious to seduce because it’s an astonishing creation shape that is measurement excessively constricted successful people’s minds. Animation arsenic a mean is excessively absorbing to limit what benignant of stories tin beryllium told.”
Said Johansson connected joining nan project, “Having nan opportunity to collaborate pinch Brad Bird is simply a profession milestone for me; I person loved his activity my full life. This task is truthful uniquely typical because 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 for illustration thing other retired there.”
Bird directed Ray Gunn from a book written pinch Matthew Robbins, based connected his ain original story. John Lasseter, Brad Bird, Lisa Beroud, David Ellison and Dana Goldberg produced nan pic for Skydance Animation.
