“Ray Gunn” is a new animated feature, directed by Brad Bird, starring Sam Rockwell as private detective ‘Gunn’ and Scarlett Johansson as ‘Venus Nova’, with Tom Waits, John Ratzenberger and Jamie Costa, streaming December 18, 2026 on Netflix:
“….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’.
According to Bird, “…people don’t call futuristic weapons ‘Ray Guns’ anymore. That’s an older term.
“So that automatically made me think of if you’re going to do a future detective movie, wouldn’t it be cool if it kind of looked like what we associate with classic detective movies?
“So that’s from the ‘30s and the ‘40s. This movie takes place in the future as seen from 1939.
“So it’s Buck Rogers meets the Maltese Falcon.”
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