Nov. 12 (UPI) — Netflix is giving a glimpse of the new film Ray Gunn.
The streaming service shared a trailer for the movie Thursday featuring the voices of Sam Rockwell (The White Lotus) and Scarlett Johansson (Avengers).
Ray Gunn is an animated noir-inspired sci-fi mystery from The Incredibles and Ratatouille director Brad Bird.
Rockwell voices the title character, Ray Gunn, a private detective living in a retro-futuristic world where humans and aliens exist side-by-side.
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Set in an alternate 1939, the film sees Ray and his alien partner Eye-Ra (Tom Waits) take on a case involving an icy blonde femme fatale, the multimedia star Venus Nova (Johansson).
Sam Rockwell (R) and John Malkovich attend the Venice Film Festival premiere of “Wild Horse Nine” in September. File Photo by Rune Hellestad/UPI
“The elevator pitch I came up with is The Maltese Falcon meets Buck Rogers,” Bird previously told Netflix’s Tudum, referencing the classic 1941 film starring Humphrey Bogart and the Philip Francis Nowlan comic strip hero.
Tom Waits arrives for the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” in 2009. File Photo by Christine Chew/UPI
Ray Gunn opens in select theaters Dec. 4 before premiering Dec. 18 on Netflix.
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