Brad Bird on bringing his decades-in-the-making animated noir 'Ray Gunn' to Netflix

I've been thinking about this story for a long time, and it's finally time to tell it the way it needs to be told.

Netflix gave us the freedom to make the film we wanted to make, without the constraints that come with traditional studio expectations.

Noir is about shadows and moral ambiguity, and animation allows us to push those visual and thematic elements further than live-action sometimes can.

I didn't pitch it to Pixar because it didn't feel like a Pixar film. It's darker, more adult in its themes, and it needed a different home.