Brad Bird is pouring chilly water on sequel hypothesis surrounding his Oscar-winning Pixar film Ratatouille.
Chicken, who wrote and directed the 2007 characteristic a couple of rat with unlikely culinary expertise, instructed Collider in an interview revealed Thursday that he has no plans to work on a possible Ratatouille 2, regardless of obvious curiosity from Pixar brass in a sequel. This follows Ratatouille voice star Patton Oswalt lately expressing curiosity in reprising the character.
“No, I don’t,” Chicken instructed the publication when requested if he has curiosity in Ratatouille 2. In referring to Pixar executives, the filmmaker continued, “They’ve made little feints towards that to see how I would react. They’ll, like, crack a joke, but the joke will be a little bit serious, like, ‘Would you?’ And I’m like, ‘No, we told that story.’”
Chicken, who additionally helmed Pixar’s 2004 hit The Incredibles and its 2018 sequel, mentioned it doesn’t shock him when Hollywood eyes a potential sequel. He mentioned he has additionally fielded questions on a possible follow-up to his animated film The Iron Giant that Warner Bros. launched in 1999.
“Any time you do something that ends up connecting with people, they automatically think, ‘How about another?’” the filmmaker mentioned. “People have mentioned it about The Iron Giant, which is hilarious to me because the film didn’t succeed at all in its initial release. It’s caught up in time, but what would you do to follow that up? He’s lumbering around, still undiscovered? In other words, to me, that story is told.”
Ratatouille facilities on a Paris-based rat with a proclivity for cooking who groups up with a younger restaurant worker. Lou Romano, Ian Holm, Janeane Garofalo, Peter O’Toole and Brad Garrett additionally offered voices for the Disney movie that surpassed $620 million ($1 billion at the moment) on the world field workplace and was nominated for 5 Oscars, together with a win for greatest animated characteristic.
Pixar has had main success with sequels to its standard properties. Toy Story 5 scored the 12 months’s greatest debut body when it opened Friday, whereas Inside Out 2 grew to become the highest-grossing title of 2024.
Oswalt instructed the Obsessed podcast in an episode launched final week that he could be recreation to return to the world of Ratatouille. “Obviously, I’d love if there was a Ratatouille sequel,” he mentioned. However Oswalt made it clear that he would need to make certain that Chicken was concerned: “So if he gets an idea, that’s the one I wanna do.”
