Your Friend the Rat
Release Date: November 6, 2007 (Ratatouille DVD)
Running Time: 11 minutes 15 seconds
Cast
Patton Oswalt & Peter Sohn
Credits
Music by: Alex Mandel
Story By: Jeff Pidgeon & Alexander Woo
Executive Produced By: Brad Bird, John Lasseter & Brad Lewis
Produced By: Ann Brilz
Written By: Jim Capobianco
Directed by: Jim Capobianco
Tidbits
- This is the directorial debut of Jim Capobianco. His past credits include Ratatouille (screenplay), The Lion King (story), Finding Nemo (story artist), Monster’s Inc, (story artist), A Bug’s Life (story artist), Fantasia 2000 (story artist) and much, much more
- The is Pixar’s first foray into 2D animation.
- Capobianco discusses the genesis of the short: “You know, there’s a lot of entertaining stuff in this and we could really make a fun short here of the vein of like ‘Our Friend the Atom’ or a Ward Kimball kind of short like the Tomorrowland series he did for Disney.’ I felt like this would be a neat kind of thing to do. And then they were looking for ideas and I suggested the idea. Brad Bird was like, ‘Yes, let’s do that. That would be a fantastic thing to do.’ And then at that point it was like, ‘Write up a script and go.’ It sort of proceeded and it took just under a year to make it from that initial pitch to the final sending it off to get mastered.”
- A Little Golden book was also released as a tie-in with art by Teddy Newton, Jeff Pidgeon and many other Pixar artists.
