Netflix just released the trailer for Ray Gunn, and it marks Brad Bird’s first feature film since Incredibles 2 in 2018. The animated sci-fi mystery follows private eye Raymond Gunn, voiced by Sam Rockwell, as he takes on a case involving aliens, murder, and a multimedia star named Venus Nova. The setting is Metropia, a gigantic city in an alternate future imagined through a 1939 lens, all art deco towers and retro tech.
The voice cast is the kind you read twice to make sure you got it right. Scarlett Johansson, Patton Oswalt, and John Ratzenberger are all on board, plus Tom Waits voicing one of the aliens. That’s not a typo. A Brad Bird noir mystery with Tom Waits as an extraterrestrial is a very specific kind of gift.
Ray Gunn begins streaming on Netflix on December 18th, 2026, which puts it right in the middle of holiday movie season. So the big question: are you watching this opening weekend, or waiting until the family is gathered around the TV?
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