Don’t Expect A “Ratatouille” Sequel

Pixar is no stranger to delivering sequels to its past successes, with around half of its films over the past decade tied to earlier ones in some way.

That said, there are several that haven’t gotten follow-ups – notably “A Bug’s Life,” “Up,” “Wall-E,” “Brave” and “Ratatouille”.

The latter title was helmed by “The Iron Giant” director Brad Bird, who himself had no issue with doing a sequel to his other Pixar film “The Incredibles”. That said, he has no plans to do one for the Oscar-winning “Ratatouille” and has clear reasons why.

Out promoting his upcoming Netflix “Ray Gunn” film coming in November, he was asked by Collider if he has any interest in doing a follow-up. He says:

“No. I don’t. 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.’

Any time you do something that ends up connecting with people, they automatically think, ‘How about another?’ 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.”

He says he sees no issue with more “The Incredibles” films and has penned the third movie, which Peter Sohn is directing this time out. He also explained to Indiewire why he didn’t approach Pixar about doing his sci-fi noir film “Ray Gunn,” saying:

“I wanted it to go to a slightly different audience, and I wanted there to be a huge amount of overlap, obviously. The Pixar audience is wide, and I love that, and I love working with Pixar. I wanted to make this a little bit different flavor wise, and that’s why I didn’t pitch it at Pixar. Because they have their lane, and I can get down with that lane, but I don’t see this movie going down that lane. I wanted to aim it a little older. Not majorly older, teenager is fine. But make something a little more adult and major.”

Netflix will release “Ray Gunn” on December 18th.

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