Film Noir Gets ‘Animated’ In New Ray Gunn Trailer

Film Noir has given us alot over the years from antiheroes, femme fatales, iconic visual style. In December noir will get ‘animated’ when Brad Bird‘s Ray Gunn arrives on Netflix, enjoy the new official Trailer.

8 years after his last directed film (Incredibles 2), Academy award winning Bird returns. He’s given us some great animated features next to the Incredibles films such ad The Iron Giant and Ratatouille. For this one it was the Noir element caught my attention and the two don’t usually go together. Bird himself told Netflix his creation is “The Maltese Falcon meets Buck Rodgers“, sign us up!

Ray Gunn stars the voices of Sam Rockwell as our titular private detective  who is dragged into a murder case involving aliens and pop star (Scarlett Johansson).

Robert Ewing watched the film at last month’s BFI London Film Festival. He loved every minute if it and the reviews we’ve read he’s not alone in that conclusion. Robert described Ray Gunn as “The dream project is more than just glorified hype. It’s a bona fide masterpiece, a film that will keep audiences hooked from beginning to end“.

Read our BFI London Film Festival Review for Ray Gunn.

The voice cast for this one also includes Tom Waits, Alan Tudyk, Matt Berry, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Chernus, Kether Donohue, Michelle Rodriguez, Aasif Mandvi, Matt Jones, Kathryn Hunter, John Ratzenberger, Justin Peck, and Patton Oswalt.

Synopsis | In Metropia, a gigantic city in an alternate future as seen from 1939, private eye Raymond Gunn is drawn into a case involving aliens, murder and a multimedia star named Venus Nova.

Ray Gunn will get a limited UK and Irish cinema release on 4th December some screens showcasing the film in 70mm. Netflix will premiere the film on 18th December.

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