Walt Disney and Pixar Release Teaser Trailer for 2027’s ‘Gatto’ Starring Mark Ruffalo and Laurence Fishburne

With Toy Story 5 releasing this week, Walt Disney and Pixar have dropped the first teaser for their next big animated feature, Gatto, an original animated adventure that takes viewers into the feline-run underbelly of Venice, Italy. The new film releases exclusively in theaters March 5, 2027.

Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things, The Avengers, Spotlight, Foxcatcher) has joined the voice cast as the scrappy black cat Nero, and Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix trilogy, Boyz n the Hood, What’s Love Got to Do with It) will voice the ruthless mob boss cat Rocco. The teaser trailer introduces Nero and Rocco as they question another cat in a funny interrogation scene.

In Gatto, after years of maneuvering the canal-ridden, superstitious city of Venice, Italy, Nero begins to question whether he’s lived the right lives. Indebted to Rocco, the local feline mob boss, Nero finds himself in a quandary and is forced to forge a truly unexpected friendship that may finally lead him to his purpose—unless Venice gets the better of him first.

Gatto is directed by Enrico Casarosa and produced by Andrea Warren, the filmmaking team behind the Oscar-nominated feature Luca.

Here is the teaser.

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