Netflix Submits Original Song From ‘Ray Gunn’ for Oscars, Written by Kimbra and Performed by Scarlett Johansson (EXCLUSIVE)

The streamer will submit “Too Much to Ask” from the new animated film in the original song category.

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Jazz Tangcay

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Netflix will officially submit “Too Much To Ask” from the animated feature “Ray Gunn” for consideration in the original song category at the Oscars, Variety has learned exclusively.

Directed by Brad Bird, “Ray Gunn” is set in Metropia, a gigantic city in an alternate future as seen from 1939, where private eye Raymond Gunn is drawn into a case involving aliens, murder and a multimedia star named Venus Nova. Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell and Tom Waits lead the voice cast.

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