• Ratatouille is the eighth animated feature film produced by Pixar. Its name comes from the dish ratatouille. It is scheduled for release on June 29, 2007 in the United States.

• The film's marketing materials say that the film's title is pronounced "rat-a-too-ee". This is purposely non-standard pronunciation syntax (versus "ra-ta-too-ee"). The same applies for the German title where the phonetic notation is "ratte-tuu-ii" (Note: "Ratte" means rat in German.)
• This project was formerly listed as 'Untitled Pixar Rodent Project'
• The chef's name "Auguste Gusteau" involves both a homonym and an anagram. His last name appears to be pronounced the same as the Italian word "gusto", meaning "flavour", and his first name is an anagram of his last.
• The restaurant in Ratatouille is called “Gusteau's” referring to the chef's name "Auguste Gusteau".
• Ratatouille's general plot, as suggested in the March 2007 trailer, of a rodent secretly guiding a human to become a success in his career -- is similar to a previous Disney short subject, Ben and Me.
• The French waiter in the trailer talking about the cheeses is voiced by the director, Brad Bird.
• At the start of the teaser trailer, the pedestrian bridge in the foreground is the easily recognizable Pont des Arts. Drawing a line from the bridge to the Eiffel Tower places the fictional restaurant right across the river Seine from the Louvre, directly south-west of Pont du Carousel. Paris has been slightly remodeled though since Musée d'Orsay, seen to the east (left) of the restaurant, should be about 500 meters to the east.
• In the trailer, there is a piece of paper in Remy’s mouth. Skinner is chasing Remy and both are flying over the river. On the right side of the piece of paper the hand written note says:
  
  Skinner
  …Renata Linguini you may
  …many years ago, where
  …were way close
  …boy (alfredo) to you in hopes
  …to give him a job
  
  perhaps Renata Linguini wrote a letter to Skinner to give Alfredo Linguini a job.
  

  Quotes:

  [from trailer]
  Remy: What is that?
  Remy's Brother Emile: [Looks at the odd thing he is eating]
  Remy's Brother: I don't really know.
  Remy: You don't know, and your eating it.
  Emile: You know, if you can sort of muscle your way past the gag reflex, all kinds of food possibilities open up.
  Remy: [to the screen] This is what I'm talking about.

The film is directed by Brad Bird, who previously directed the 2004 Pixar film The Incredibles. The film's original director Jan Pinkava, of the 1997 Pixar short film Geri's Game, is co-directing. The screenwriters are Emily Cook and Kathy Greenberg, both making their feature film debuts, from a story by Jan Pinkava. The film's score is composed by Michael Giacchino known for his works The Incredibles, One Man Band, Lost, and Alias.

The film's executive producer is Disney-Pixar Animation's Chief Creative Officer, John Lasseter, who continues to retain this position on all Pixar films he does not personally direct. The film is produced by Brad Lewis and John Lasseter (executive producer) and edited by Darren T. Holmes, whose previous work includes The Iron Giant and Lilo & Stitch.

Plot (from Jim Hill)

Pixar, the creators of "Finding Nemo," "The Incredibles" and "Cars" now cook up "Ratatouille," a delicious new animated-adventure centering on an ambitious French Rat named Remy who dreams of becoming a great chef. Because of his passion for cooking, Remy accidentally uproots his family from the French countryside to the sewers of Paris, and finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. When Remy helps create a soup that wins rave reviews from the world's most powerful food critic, he sets in motion a hilarious and exciting rat race that wreaks havoc on the entire city, allowing him to achieve the impossible and pursue his true gift. The screenplay, written by Academy Award-winning Brad Bird ("The Incredibles"), is flavored with a colorful cast of characters and exquisite French backdrops making "Rataouille" a tantalizing recipe of imaginative fun and unexpected delight.