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Brad Bird, director of "The Incredibles" films, has spent more than 30 years developing his animated detective noir "Ray Gunn" on and off since the 1990s. With the long-awaited movie finally arriving next month, Netflix has released a second trailer and a new poster, seen below.
Bird directs the film and co-wrote the screenplay with "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio" co-writer Matthew Robbins. The voice cast includes Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Waits and Bird himself. "Ray Gunn" opens in select North American theaters, including limited 70mm engagements, on December 4 before streaming on Netflix on December 18.
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Set in an alternate vision of the future as imagined in 1939, the movie unfolds in Metropia, a sprawling fictional metropolis where humans and aliens live side by side. Private detective Raymond Gunn becomes entangled in a complicated case involving aliens, murder and a multimedia superstar named Venus Nova.
Bird previously described "Ray Gunn" as a fusion of science fiction and 1940s detective movies—essentially "The Maltese Falcon" meets spacefaring hero "Buck Rogers." The film also revisits the retrofuturist aesthetic Bird explored in "The Incredibles" films.