Oscar winner Michael Giacchino has been officially announced as the composer for Brad Bird’s Netflix animated film Ray Gun.
The original futuristic detective caper “Ray Gun” will be the duo’s sixth collaboration since they first teamed up for Pixar Animation’s “The Incredibles” in 2004. (The two have since co-starred in Ratatouille, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Tomorrowland, and Incredibles 2.)
The score was recently recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London.
Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, and Tom Waits provide voices for Skydance Animation. This animation is set in an alternate future from 1939, in a megacity called Metropia. According to the logline, Rockwell provides the voice of Raymond Gunn, a private investigator who becomes embroiled in a case involving “aliens, murder, and a multimedia star named Venus Nova.” Johansson will be voicing Nova.
“Ray Gun” (provided by Netflix)
“One of the reasons I loved working with Michael again on ‘Ray Gun’ is because he treats the orchestra like a living thing,” Bird said. “He wants all the musicians to be in the same room and be able to react to each other and hear the differences. That’s the same way I work with animators. It’s not an afterthought, it’s an idea itself.”
Giacchino added, “Working on Ray Gun with Brad still feels like two kids talking about Jonny Quest in the park.” We’ve loved the same things, we still feel the same excitement, and that shared passion flows directly into the films we make together. ”
“Ray Gun” is Bird’s first feature-length film since 2018’s “Incredibles 2.” Bird conceived the original story and co-wrote the screenplay with Matthew Robbins.
Although the exact release date has not yet been confirmed, ‘Ray Gun’ is expected to arrive on Netflix later this year.
Skydance Animation has signed an exclusive multi-year deal with Netflix for animation production starting in 2023. They recently released “Swapped,” which was released last month and featured the voices of Michael B. Jordan, Juno Temple, Tracy Morgan, Cedric the Entertainer, and Justina Machado.
