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Who said black cats were bad luck?

This year, the Oscar for Best Animated Feature went to Latvian film Flow, which follows a darkly-coated feline in a post-climate change world. And though it didn't go down as well for critics, Apple TV+'s black-cat-starring fantasy film Luck from 2022 was reported to have earned an impressive 2.2M viewers within its first week on the platform. Now, it looks like Pixar wants a piece of the action, as they've unveiled plans for their own project starring an unlucky lucky charm. 

At the Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2025, Pixar Animation Studios’ chief creative officer Pete Docter announced an original project called Gatto to a crowd of serious animation lovers. From the minds of director Enrico Casarosa and producer Andrea Warren, who collaborated on recent Pixar project Luca, the film will follow a black cat living a dangerous existence in Venice. The Walt Disney Company published a report on the film's plot, which we've quoted here:

"[A]fter years of maneuvering the canal-ridden, superstitious city, a black cat named Nero begins to question whether he’s lived the right lives. Indebted to a 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 slated for release in 2027, and I'm telling you right now, yours truly will be in the audience when it is. As both a massive Luca fan and Halloween nerd, I'm just as thrilled as I am to see the team coming back together as I am that most familiar of animals getting their time in the spotlight. Personally, I believe every studio that gets the chance should make its own black cat film.

Oops, sorry Sony.

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