(courtesy First Showing)
SNAPSHOT
In Gatto, after years of maneuvering the canal-ridden, superstitious city of Venice, Italy, Nero (voiced by Mark Ruffalo) begins to question whether he’s lived the right lives. Indebted to Rocco (voiced by Laurence Fishburne), the local feline mobster boss, Nero finds himself in a quandary and is forced to forge a truly unexpected friendship that may finally lead him to his purpose—unless Venice gets the better of him first. Pixar’s Gatto movie is directed by acclaimed Italian animation filmmaker Enrico Casarosa, director of the Pixar movie Luca previously, and the La Luna short, along with story artist work on Ratatouille, Up, Cars 2, and Coco. No final writing credits are available yet. Produced by Andrea Warren. Executive produced by Pete Docter. Made by Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville, CA. (courtesy First Showing)
Happiness is a new Pixar movie.
Not just yet, mind you but soon and very soon in the new year when we get to meet Gatto which looks like it will be a delightfully funny story about the tug of war that exists between the life we have always known, which may or may not be good for us, and the life that beckons, albeit by the thread of one lone whisker, which offers everything we have ever wanted.
Will the head or the heart win out?
Being an emotionally resonant Pixar film, there’s no doubt which will prevail but it’s the getting to that point that will enrich the heart and the soul and make us take a good hard look at what matters to us and why.
Gatto opens in Australia on 4 March 2027 and U.S. on 5 March.