Incredibles Director Brad Bird's Next Film Ray Gunn is in the Works

 

    I've talked about Brad Bird ALOT on this blog. I mean, you can't really talk about animation without talking about Brad Bird. I mean, he's the greatest filmmakers working today and is one of the greatest filmmakers off all time. He has made some of my fav films, The Incredibles, The Iron Giant, and Ratatouille are some off my faviorite films. He has even dipped his toes into live action a few times with films like Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol.  So when I heard that Brad Bird was making another animated film, I just had to talk about it. The film is called Ray Gunn which I've heard about before in documentaries and stuff. He has been trying to make this film for 30 years and now it is finally happening at Skydance Animation where he's teaming up again with John Lasseter. John Lasseter is another one off my heroes. He is the co founder of Pixar and his movie Toy Story, got me into animation, filmmaking, and just the arts in general. After resigning from Pixar for reasons for another time, John was hired by Skydance's new animation studio. Its awesome to have him and Brad team up again for another film. Brad Bird will also produce the film. The other producers for this film are David Ellison and Dana Goldberg, who both where producers on The Tomorrow War! Yeah! That's right! This is the fourth film announced by Skydance Animation. The other films they are working on include Luck which will come out on Apple TV+ in August, Spellbound, directed by Shrek director Vicky Jenson, and Pookoo (working title), directed by Tangled Director Nathan Greno. I also just heard that the director of Wreck it Ralph and Zootopia, Rich Moore, is also at the studio but we don't know what he is doing over there for know. The film is about Ray Gunn, a detective of the future who lives in the sprawling city of Metropia where humans and aliens coexist, where he is tasked to solve the alleged infidelity of a famous pop star. When he starts digging deeper into the case, he realizes that her husband is trying to frame her for the murder of her body double. Brad Bird described the movie as, 

    "I wanted to do a detective story set in the future, but I wanted that future to be seen from the same time period during which the detective story was at its peak – the thirties, generally speaking – before World War II and the atomic bomb made the world a smaller place, and the future less than rosy. This is an ART DECO future where everything is streamlined within an inch of its life, where cities are gargantuan jewels that stretch into the heavens, where flying cars stream through the sky, where creatures from other planets have joined the melting pot, and holograms are only in black and white. At the same time I wanted to combine two disparate worlds from the same period: the squeaky clean look of Buck Rogers and the contemporary, gritty, been-around characters from pulp novels."

    

    This is obviously an ambitious film that sounds like no other animated film. Brad Bird had had this idea for this movie since the 1990's. He wrote the script with Matthew Robbins who wrote movies like Are you Afraid of the Dark, Crimson Peak, Mimic, and the upcoming stop motion Pinocchio (if you don't know what some of these movies are, there is something called Google). It was going to be a Hand Drawn animated film at Turner Feature Animation who made Cats Don't Dance (which I wrote a review on). However, the film was not off interest to the studio. So he went and made The Iron Giant instead. Now, after 30 years, he is finally making the film he has been wanting to make for, well, 30 years. But here is the million dollar question. Will it be 2d animated like it was originally intended, or will it will be Cg? Maybe they could compromise and mix them together like Spiderverse and Mitchells vs the Machines. I really want it to be 2d though. Whatever way they choose to animate this, I AM EXCITED EITHER WAY!! When I first heard this news, I was squealing and jumping up and down like a total nerd. But I don't care. I AM BEYOND EXCITED. Tell me what you think in the comments, don't forget to follow and watch the Lightyear trailer on here already, and thanks for taking another ride at The Animation Station.