Remy voice actor Patton Oswalt will only return for Ratatouille 2 if it feels organic
Patton Oswalt says he’ll only consider a Ratatouille sequel if one key condition is met.
Ratatouille talk is heating back up, and Patton Oswalt is not dodging the question. He says he will happily squeak back in as Remy — but only if the sequel comes from a real idea, not a boardroom.
Oswalt is in... if Brad Bird is, too
On a recent episode of 'Obsessed: The Podcast', Oswalt said he would return for a Ratatouille sequel, with one big condition: it needs to come from director Brad Bird having an honest-to-goodness story worth telling. He made it pretty clear he is not interested in the kind of sequel that gets hammered out on legal pads just because the IP is sitting there.
"If [director Brad Bird] gets an idea, that’s the one I wanna do."
He also compared the kind of follow-up he wants to the jump from 'The Terminator' to 'Terminator 2' or from 'Alien ' to 'Aliens ' — not a repeat, but an expansion that feels necessary. And while he was frank that, yes, money matters (no one is allergic to a hit), he stressed that any box-office bump should be the result of chasing a fresh story they had not considered before, not the goal in itself.
Quick rewind: why this matters
Ratatouille landed in 2007 and quickly became a Pixar favorite. It also pulled in $623.7 million worldwide and ended up the sixth highest-grossing movie of that year. So when studios keep dusting off beloved animated films for late-in-the-game sequels, fans naturally wonder if Remy is next. Oswalt’s stance: he is game, as long as the spark comes from Bird and not a spreadsheet.
Meanwhile, if you want to revisit the original
Short refresher: the movie follows Remy, a rat with absurdly refined taste who dreams of cooking in Paris. He teams up with a shy kitchen worker named Linguini and secretly guides him to greatness at Gusteau's. It is about talent, determination, and the idea that brilliance can come from the most unexpected place on the line.
In the U.S., you can find it on:
- Disney+ ( streaming )
- Fubo (streaming)
- Hulu ( streaming)
- Amazon Prime Video ( rental)
- Apple TV ( rental)
If Pixar ever pulls the trigger and Brad Bird shows up with that must-tell idea, it sounds like Oswalt is ready to put the chef hat back on. Until then, the classic is an easy rewatch.