Hopes for a Ratatouille sequel were dashed by director Brad Bird in an interview with Collider, stating that he had no interest in continuing the story of Rattle the Rodent Chef. Pixar often turns popular films into franchises, from Finding Nemo to The Incredibles to Toy Story (the fifth installment just hit theaters). A sequel to “Coco” has also been made.
“No, I’m not interested,” Bird said, “Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy Remy 2 (I) “They kind of feinted towards it a little bit to see how I would react. They joke, but the joke is a little bit serious, like, ‘What do you do?’ And I say, ‘No, we talked about that.’ ”
“When you do something and connect with people, people automatically think, ‘How about something else?'” Bird added. “People mention that about ‘The Iron Giant,’ but to me it’s very interesting because this movie wasn’t a success at all in its initial release. It’s caught up with the times, but what do you do to follow it? Is he still wandering around, undiscovered? So, to me, that’s the story being told.”
Expectations for a sequel were reignited earlier this month when Patton Oswalt, who voiced Remy in the Pixar classic, said on The Daily Beast’s Obsessed podcast that he would like to make a sequel as long as Bird is involved.
Oswalt said, “Of course, I’d be happy if there was a sequel to “Ratée.” “So if he comes up with an idea, that’s what I want to do. I don’t want to be that guy who says, ‘Hey, what if Lemmy did this?'” I want that to be one of those things that you can’t escape. I don’t want us to be like, “Okay, let’s pull out the legal pad and dismantle the sequel.” There are a lot of movies that are made that way, but they always feel inorganic. ”
Unfortunately for Oswalt, Byrd doesn’t want to go down the sequel route with “Ratée.” The film about a mouse who becomes a chef in Paris was a 2007 Pixar blockbuster that received Oscar nominations for original music, sound editing, sound mixing, and original screenplay. The film grossed $623 million, making it the sixth-highest grossing film of 2007.
Bird, who is developing the third film in the “Incredibles” series at Pixar, worked out of the studio on his latest film, the animated noir “Ray Gun.” He recently told IndieWire that he wanted to appeal to a “slightly different audience” with the film, which will be produced under Skydance Animation and will be released on Netflix later this year.
“Pixar’s audience is broad. I love that and I love working with Pixar,” Bird said. “I didn’t pitch it to Pixar because I wanted to change it up a little bit, flavor-wise, because Pixar has a Pixar lane and I can follow that lane, but I don’t think this movie is going to follow that lane. I wanted to go for a little bit more of an age group. Not too much older, teenagers are fine, but I wanted to make something a little more adult and major.”
