{"id":1050207,"date":"2026-06-26T00:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T00:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1050207\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T00:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T00:12:17","slug":"ratatouille-sequel-to-pixar-movie-wont-happen-says-brad-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1050207\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Ratatouille’: Sequel to Pixar Movie Won’t Happen, Says Brad Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBrad Bird<\/a> is pouring cold water on sequel speculation surrounding his Oscar-winning Pixar<\/a> movie Ratatouille<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tBird, who wrote and directed the 2007 feature about a rat with unlikely culinary talent, told Collider<\/a> in an interview published Thursday that he has no plans to work on a potential Ratatouille 2, despite apparent interest from Pixar brass in a sequel. This follows Ratatouille voice star Patton Oswalt<\/a> recently expressing interest in reprising the character. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNo, I don\u2019t,\u201d Bird told the publication when asked if he has interest in Ratatouille 2. In referring to Pixar executives, the filmmaker continued, \u201cThey\u2019ve made little feints towards that to see how I would react. They\u2019ll, like, crack a joke, but the joke will be a\u00a0little\u00a0bit serious, like, \u2018Would you?\u2019 And I\u2019m like,\u00a0\u2018No, we told that story.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBird, who also helmed Pixar\u2019s 2004 hit The Incredibles and its 2018 sequel, said it does not surprise him when Hollywood eyes a possible sequel. He said he has also fielded questions about a potential follow-up to his animated film The Iron Giant<\/a> that Warner Bros. released in 1999. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAny time you do something that ends up connecting with people, they automatically think, \u2018How about another?’\u201d the filmmaker said. \u201cPeople have mentioned it about\u00a0The Iron Giant, which is hilarious to me because the film didn\u2019t succeed at all in its initial release. It\u2019s caught up in time, but what would you do to follow that up? He\u2019s lumbering around, still undiscovered?\u00a0In other words, to me, that story is told.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tRatatouille centers on a Paris-based rat with a proclivity for cooking who teams up with a young restaurant employee. Lou Romano, Ian Holm, Janeane Garofalo, Peter O\u2019Toole and Brad Garrett also provided voices for the Disney<\/a> film that surpassed $620 million ($1 billion today) at the global box office and was nominated for five Oscars, including a win for best animated feature. <\/p>\n

\n\tPixar has had major success with sequels to its popular properties. Toy Story 5 scored the year\u2019s biggest debut frame when it opened Friday, while Inside Out 2 became the highest-grossing title of 2024.<\/p>\n

\n\tOswalt told the Obsessed<\/a> podcast in an episode released last week that he would be game to return to the world of Ratatouille. \u201cObviously, I\u2019d love if there was a Ratatouille sequel,\u201d he said. But Oswalt made it clear that he would want to be sure that Bird was involved: \u201cSo if he gets an idea, that\u2019s the one I wanna do.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brad Bird is pouring cold water on sequel speculation surrounding his Oscar-winning Pixar movie Ratatouille. Bird, who wrote…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1050208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3935],"tags":[32015,288571,823,77,3943,182693,40953,270224,16,15],"class_list":["post-1050207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-animation","tag-brad-bird","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-patton-oswalt","tag-pixar","tag-ratatouille","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1050208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}