History Trivia / Ratatouille

* AscendedMeme: The idea of "Ratatouille TheMusical" began making the rounds on [=TikTok=] in 2020 as a joke... at first. Then, as more songs started getting written and more people began contributing their ideas, people began to realize, "Holy crap, this is actually kind of good!" and started going even harder. No one expected anything much to come of it... until [[MemeAcknowledgement Disney took notice]]. ''Then'', in a special event, a limited streaming event of ''Ratatouille: The Musical'' premiered on [=TodayTix=] to raise money for the Actor's Fund, with an AllStarCast of Broadway veterans. Again, this began life ''as a joke''.

** In the Latin American Spanish dub, Django was voiced by the late TV actor Hector Bonilla.

** Creator/JaneaneGarofalo as Colette, Creator/BradGarrett as Gusteau and Creator/IanHolm as Skinner. None of them are French.

** One proposed promotional campaign for the film involved stocking French-bottled wine themed after the film in Costco stores. However, the idea was shot down by the California Wine Institute, who expressed concerns that the campaign would encourage underage drinking, particularly singling out the presence of cartoon characters on [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/Ratatouille-wine.jpg the label]]. The fact that ''Ratatouille'' was due to release during a major boom in merchandise for competing films also discouraged Disney and Pixar from going ahead with the idea.

* RoleReprise: All of the actors from the movie reprised their roles for the game.

** Gusteau was originally going to be more involved in the story – still living, but too [[HeroicBSOD depressed and gloomy from Ego's review.]] The producers felt the story was complicated enough, so his role was trimmed down and he was ultimately killed off.

* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/BradBird cast Creator/IanHolm as Skinner after seeing him in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''.

* ExecutiveMeddling: For the better, perhaps. The film's original director, Jan Pinkava, was replaced with Creator/BradBird after Pinkava was unable to come up with a satisfactory resolution to the story. Bird, who had won an Oscar for his work on ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' a year earlier, was given a tight deadline to rewrite the script using ''already finished models of the characters in place'' and make it better! Among the most apparent changes were redesigning the rats to make them less cartoony and ''killing off Gusteau'', only having him appear through Rémy's imagination. He won a second Oscar for this film. Needless to say, he took a brief hiatus from film-making after this.

* CastingGag: Creator/PattonOswalt regularly discusses food in his standup. In one set, he discussed being miserable at a Hollywood after-party because he was on a diet and thus unable to eat the food at the buffet. Feeling miserable, he runs into Creator/BrianDennehy (whom he met earlier at the party), his plate piled high with food, who then gleefully says to him, "Character actors! Who gives a fuck if we're fat?!" Which Oswalt stated lifted his feelings and allowed him to enjoy the buffet. Guess who plays Remy's dad.

* CastingGag: Patton Oswalt regularly discusses food in his standup. In one set, he discussed being miserable at a Hollywood after-party because he was on a diet and thus unable to eat the food at the buffet. Feeling miserable, he runs into Creator/BrianDennehy (whom he met earlier at the party), his plate piled high with food, who then gleefully says to him, "Character actors! Who gives a fuck if we're fat?!" Which Oswalt stated lifted his feelings and allowed him to enjoy the buffet. Guess who plays Remy's dad.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Gusteau was originally going to be more involved in the story – still living, but too [[HeroicBSOD depressed and gloomy from Ego's review.]] The producers felt the story was complicated enough, so his role was trimmed down and he was ultimately killed off.