{"id":592743,"date":"2026-04-09T15:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/592743\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:33:09","slug":"scarlett-johansson-and-sam-rockwell-join-brad-birds-ray-gunn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/592743\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarlett Johansson and Sam Rockwell Join Brad Bird’s ‘Ray Gunn’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tScarlett Johansson<\/a>, Sam Rockwell and Tom Waits have joined Brad Bird<\/a>\u2018s \u201cRay Gunn<\/a>\u201d voice cast.<\/p>\n

\n\tJohansson, Rockwell and Waits will join voice actor John Ratzenberger in the Skydance Animation feature.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to the logline, \u201cRay Gunn\u201d is set in Metropia, a gigantic city in an alternate future as seen from 1939, where private eye Raymond Gunn is drawn into a case involving aliens, murder and a multimedia star named Venus Nova.<\/p>\n

\n\tBird is on board as producer, writer and director. He helmed 2004\u2019s \u201cThe Incredibles\u201d and 2018\u2019s \u201cIncredibles 2,\u201d and this marks his first film since 2018. Bird is also suiting up again to write and produce \u201cIncredibles 3\u201d slated for release in 2028.<\/p>\n

\n\tSkydance Animation\u2019s John Lasseter, David Ellison and Dana Goldberg are set to produce the film which will be released by Netflix later this year. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2023, Skydance Animation struck a deal to exclusively release its animated movies directly to Netflix in an arrangement that spans multiple years.<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier this year, Netflix won the animated feature Oscar for \u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d which became its most-watched movie of 2025.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso on its animation slate are the upcoming \u201cSteps,\u201d featuring Amanda Seyfried as the voice of Cinderella<\/a>, and \u201cSwapped,\u201d abuddy comedy about a small woodland creature (voiced\u00a0by\u00a0Michael\u00a0B.\u00a0Jordan) and a majestic\u00a0bird (voiced\u00a0by Juno Temple).<\/p>\n

\n\tJohansson was the recipient of Variety\u2019s\u00a0Legends and Groundbreakers<\/a>\u00a0Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival in 2025. She worked her way up to being the industry\u2019s top-paid female star, locking in (and later fighting to be fairly compensated for) that title as Marvel\u2019s Black Widow character. <\/p>\n

\n\tLast year, she appeared in \u00a0\u201cJurassic World: Rebirth\u201d and she brought her feature directing debut \u201cEleanor the Great<\/a>\u201d to Cannes. Next up, she\u2019s set to appear in the \u201cExorcist\u201d movie<\/a> for Universal and Blumhouse-Atomic Monster.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSkydance Animation\/Netflix<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSkydance Animation\/Netflix<\/p>\n

\n\t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell and Tom Waits have joined Brad Bird\u2018s \u201cRay Gunn\u201d voice cast. Johansson, Rockwell and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[225440,49,48,75,337,225441,31981],"class_list":{"0":"post-592743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-brad-bird","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-ray-gunn","14":"tag-scarlett-johansson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}