Patton Oswalt says he wants a Ratatouille sequel, but only under one condition: it has to come from director Brad Bird. Oswalt, who voices the rat Remy in the 2007 Pixar film, addressed the topic on The Daily Beast's Obsessed podcast.
According to Variety, Pixar is currently in development on sequels including Incredibles 3, Monsters Inc. 3, and Coco 2, and has Toy Story 5 in theaters now. Ratatouille remains one of the studio's few major hits without a follow-up in the works.
Oswalt made clear he does not want to be the one driving a sequel into existence. "Obviously, I'd love if there was a 'Ratatouille' sequel," he said, before laying out his conditions.
"There was never gonna be an 'Incredibles' sequel until he thought, 'Wait a minute. There is a story to tell,'" Oswalt said of Bird. "So if he gets an idea, that's the one I wanna do. I don't wanna be the guy going, 'Hey, what if Remy did this?' I want it to be one of those ideas that happens that you cannot get away from. I don't want it to come from us going, 'All right, let's get out the legal pads and let's break down a sequel.' There are a lot of movies where that's how they're done, and it always feels inorganic."
He also described what kind of sequel he would want it to be. "I want the sequel to be not the same type of movie, but that same energy that 'Terminator 2' or 'Aliens' had, which is, there's an expansion of the story that we that we actually need to tell… This isn't just a money grab. And yes, by the way, we love the money, and we're gonna grab it, but we're gonna get the money by telling an amazing story with whole new dimensions that we didn't even know beforehand."
Ratatouille earned the Oscar for best animated feature and received additional nominations for original score, sound editing, sound mixing, and original screenplay. It grossed $623 million worldwide, which adjusts to roughly $1 billion in today's dollars, making it the sixth highest-grossing film of 2007. Bird directed it as a follow-up to The Incredibles, which also won the Oscar for best animated feature.
No sequel has been announced, and Bird has not publicly commented on the project.
