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First Look At Brad Bird’s ‘Ray Gunn’ For Netflix

By Neill Frazer · Managing Editor / Ent.Critic
Jun 25, 2026 · 1 min read

First Look At Brad Bird’s ‘Ray Gunn’ For Netflix

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Netflix has announced that Brad Bird’s animated film Ray Gunn will be released on December 18, 2026. The film features voice performances by Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, and Tom Waits.

The release date was revealed during the Annecy International Film Festival on Wednesday, at Netflix’s highly attended Next on Netflix session held in the 1,400-seat Bonlieu theatre.
Ray Gunn is set in Metropia, a vast city in an alternate future depicted from a 1939 viewpoint. The story follows private detective Raymond Gunn, voiced by Rockwell, who becomes entangled in a murder investigation involving a multimedia star named Venus Nova, voiced by Johansson. The project is a collaboration between Netflix and Skydance Animation, with production credits to John Lasseter, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Lisa Beroud.