Pixar’s Gatto trailer is here, and it puts Nero, a black cat on his last life, in the middle of a Venice that wants nothing to do with him. The full trailer arrived Thursday morning along with a new poster and a much bigger voice cast, ahead of the film’s March 5, 2027, release in theaters.
A Cat Running Out Of Lives
Mark Ruffalo voices Nero, a music-loving cat who has spent years dodging the superstitions of a city that treats a black cat as bad luck. He owes a debt to Rocco, the feline mob boss of Venice’s underbelly, voiced by Laurence Fishburne. With one life left, Nero ends up in an unlikely friendship with Maja, a street musician, and starts to wonder whether he has spent his lives the right way.
One of the new images from the film shows the start of that friendship, with Nero sitting on a pink park bench right next to Maja.
A New Look For Pixar
Gatto does not look like a typical Pixar movie. Its Venice is painted, with brush strokes and layered textures over the CG, so the canals and pastel buildings look closer to an illustration than a render. It is the first time Pixar has gone for a hand-painted look on a feature, and the trailer shows it holding up in motion.
Enrico Casarosa directs and Andrea Warren produces, the same team that made Luca. Dario Marianelli, who won an Oscar for Atonement, composed the score, with music from violinist Barbora Botošová.
The Full Voice Cast
Ruffalo and Fishburne were already announced, and Casarosa has a voice role too. The new additions are Bianca Babaşa as Maja, Sherry Cola as Regina, John Turturro as Capitano Briganti, Rumen Sali Shopov as Papu Janko, Rhys Darby as Focaccia, Isabella Rossellini as Contessa, Natasia Demetriou as Charon, Jamie Demetriou as Plague Doctor, Jason Schwartzman as Vivaldi, Saverio Raimondo as Ugo, Jason Mantzoukas as Rico, Matt Jones as Enzo, Austin Madison as Fishmonger, Beatrice Manfredi as Martinelli, Jesse Andrews as Bartolomeo, Tracey Ullman as Luisa and Marco Calvani as Maestro Foscari.
For a look back at how the film was first pitched, here is what Pixar first revealed about Gatto’s cast and premise.
Loving Dory Plays First
Gatto will not open alone. Pixar’s new short Loving Dory, set in the world of Finding Nemo, will play ahead of it in theaters. Ellen DeGeneres is back as Dory, who finds herself in the middle of an unexpected meet-cute, and Lou Hamou-Lhadj wrote and directed the short.
Gatto opens in theaters on March 5, 2027.
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