Pixar is currently burning up the box office with Toy Story 5, but it appears there will only ever be one Ratatouille. Brad Bird isn’t anti-sequels, he already did The Incredibles 2, he just doesn’t feel the need for a sequel to his Oscar-winning rat-driven cooking animated opus. In an interview with Collider he said:
“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 wrote The Incredibles 3, which Peter Sohn is directing, so it appears he has clear ideas about what should, and shouldn’t get a sequel.
He made these comments while he was out promoting Ray Gunn, his sci-fi noir detective movie. He told another outlet that he didn’t even speak to Pixar about it, as he needed something different:
“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.”
Ray Gunn arrives on Netflix on December 18th.
