The world premiere of Netflix’s animated feature “Ray Gunn” at the London Film Festival on Saturday coincided with a special day for one of its key creatives. As director Brad Bird noted in the introduction at the Royal Festival Hall, the premiere for the neo-noir sci-fi was also composer Michael Giacchino’s birthday. Bird then invited the film’s voice stars Scarlett Johansson and Sam Rockwell to sing a rather sped up and succinct version of “Happy Birthday” to the musician, who took a selfie of them all to mark the occasion.
Speaking afterwards, Johansson said her primary attraction for joining “Ray Gunn” was Bird himself. And then I went, that’s cool and it went from there. So it was inspired by music.” Following its world premiere at the London Film Festival, which runs until Oct. 18, Ray Gunn will play at select theaters on Dec. 4 before releasing on Netflix on Dec 18.
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