After the success of “Hoppers” from earlier this year and a week before “Toy Story 5” hits theaters, Pixar is revealing its next animated movie, titled “Gatto.” It will star Mark Ruffalo and Laurence Fishburne as two cats prowling around Italy.
Ruffalo will voice Nero, a scrappy black cat, and Fishburne will play Rocco, a ruthless cat mob boss.
“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,” the logline teases. “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 “Luca.” It will release in theaters March 5, 2027.