Ars Technica's Jennifer Ouellette covers the new trailer for Ray Gunn, Brad Bird's animated noir about private eye Raymond Gunn, who in the futuristic city of Metropia takes a case involving aliens, murder, and multimedia star Venus Nova. Bird spent 30 years developing the idea with co-writer Matthew Robbins; it stars Sam Rockwell and Scarlett Johansson and streams December 18, 2026.