Brad Bird is pouring cold water on sequel speculation surrounding his Oscar-winning Pixar movie Ratatouille.
Bird, who wrote and directed the 2007 feature about a rat with unlikely culinary talent, told Collider 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 recently expressing interest in reprising the character.
“No, I don’t,” Bird told the publication when asked if he has interest 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.'”
Bird, who also helmed Pixar’s 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 that Warner Bros. released in 1999.
“Any time you do something that ends up connecting with people, they automatically think, ‘How about another?'” the filmmaker said. “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.”
