(courtesy IMP Awards)
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“Academy Award winner Brad Bird, the visionary director of The Incredibles, Ratatouille, and The Iron Giant, brings you a whole new world to investigate…” Set within 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 is directed by acclaimed American sci-fi filmmaker Brad Bird, director of the movies The Iron Giant, The Incredibles & Ratatouille for Pixar Animation Studios, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Tomorrowland, and Pixar’s Incredibles 2 previously. The screenplay is written by Brad Bird and Matthew Robbins (of Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, Crimson Peak, Rangoon, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio), from an original story by Brad Bird. Produced by Lisa Beroud, Brad Bird, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, John Lasseter. Produced and animated by Skydance Animation. (courtesy First Showing)
Don’t you just love it when something turns out to be bigger and badder than you were expecting?
One person who most emphatically won’t agree with that is Ray Gunn, the eponymously animated protagonist of Brad Bird’s retro-futuristic masterpiece-in-the-making who takes on what looks like a fairly straightforward femme fatale-centred gig only to discover it’s far more complex and dangerous than he thought.
Good for us, not so good for him.
We got to see where this wild ride of detective work and underworld machinations takes him when, after premiering at the London Film Festival, Ray Gunn launches on Netflix on 4 December.