Netflix reveals first-look images of The Incredibles director's new movie Ray Gunn — and its starry cast and plot details have instantly caught my eye
I spy with my (private) eye
by https://www.techradar.com/uk/author/tom-power · TechRadarNews By Tom Power published 9 April 2026
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- Netflix has released the first images for new animated film Ray Gunn
- The sci-fi detective movie is helmed by The Incredibles' award-winning director Brad Bird
- Scarlett Johansson has been unveiled as part of its A-list cast
Netflix has unveiled the first official images for Ray Gunn, a new animated movie from the award-winning director behind beloved Pixar flicks The Incredibles and Ratatouille.
Billed as a gumshoe sci-fi adventure, Ray Gunn is the first film from Oscar winner Brad Bird in eight years — the last big-screen offering he helmed was The Incredibles 2, which made its theatrical debut in mid-2018.
Ahead of Bird's latest movie premiering exclusively on the world's best streaming service later this year, Netflix has released some world-first images from the forthcoming flick, and the first details about its plot and A-list voice cast. Let's start with those aforementioned images, which you can see in the gallery below:
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Story-wise, Ray Gunn is set in 1939, in an alternate-universe city called Metropia. Per Netflix, it'll see "private eye Raymond Gunn [get] drawn into a case involving aliens, murder, and a multimedia star named Venus Nova".
"Ray Gunn has been in my mind for over 30 years," Bird said in a statement accompanying the announcement of one of this year's new movies. "The film is a blend of sci-fi and classic detective movies from the '40s — it's Maltese Falcon meets Buck Rogers. I've been a fan of both of those sort of genres, and blending them together seemed fun, and a chance to play with a lot of very cinematic elements and extreme characters.
"There’s a big chunk of people who don’t watch animation. That’s a group I’m anxious to persuade [to watch this], because it’s an amazing art form that is way too limited in people’s minds. Animation as a medium is too interesting to limit what kind of stories can be told."
Who is part of Ray Gunn's cast?
Alongside all of the aforementioned reveals, Netflix has also confirmed the first three actors who'll lend their vocal talents to some of Ray Gunn's main characters.
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