Brad Bird’s been cooking a grown-up animated sci-fi noir for a long time, and Netflix just dropped a new official trailer that actually lets you see the thing.

The trailer, posted on Netflix’s official YouTube channel, dives straight into Metropia, a dazzling retro-futurist city where humans and aliens live side by side, flying cars rip through the sky, and the buildings stretch a mile high. Sam Rockwell voices Raymond Gunn, one of the last investigators still pounding the asphalt the old-fashioned way. Scarlett Johansson is Venus Nova, one of Metropia’s biggest and most controversial megastars. Tom Waits is in there too.

Ray Gunn opens in select theaters, including limited 70mm engagements, on December 4, 2026. It hits Netflix worldwide on December 18.

Bird directed The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, and Ratatouille, so the bar here is not low. Watch the trailer, then decide if you’re catching it on a big screen or waiting two weeks for the couch.