Netflix releases new trailer for Ray Gunn

Netflix unveiled a fresh trailer for the forthcoming animated motion picture titled Ray Gunn in September, with director Brad Bird's unique fusion of a futuristic Jetsons-esque world and classic 1930s noir detective stories capturing their attention. Bird has compared the project to a mashup of The Maltese Falcon and Buck Rogers, and the latest teaser indeed emanates that dynamic energy.

As previously noted, Bird has helmed some of our most beloved animated films such as The Iron Giant (1999), The Incredibles (2004), and Ratatouille (2007), with the latter two receiving prestigious Oscar accolades. He has been contemplating Ray Gunn for a span of 30 years, diligently handling other film endeavors while the script—written jointly by Matthew Robbins, the co-writer of 1987's Batteries Not Included—remained tucked away in a filing cabinet at Warner Brothers, as Bird mentioned earlier this year.

The film's genesis stemmed from Bird's encounter with the opening notes of the B-52s' "Planet Claire" (which is also featured in the new trailer's soundtrack) that he initially mistook for a rendition of Henry Mancini's theme music from the iconic TV show Peter Gunn. Bird, a long-standing aficionado of film noir and hard-boiled detectives, conceived the premise of a futuristic detective named Ray Gunn, a clever play on the phrase "raygun".

"It’s film noir and a hard-boiled detective story, but it’s got a lot more comedy and a lot more action than the average film noir," Bird remarked.