Tuesday, July 15, 2008

'Up' character seen in 'Ratatouille'

Some exciting news about one of the characters that will be appearing in Pixar's next release Up found its way online today.

If you recall the scene in Ratatouille pictured at top, around 16 minutes into the film, where Remy is barked at by a dog who remains off-screen, except for his shadow –well that same dog will be seen in Up.

This reference –the latest in a long line of Pixar in-jokes– was discovered on the special commentary feature of the Ratatouille Blu-ray disc, where director Brad Bird mentions that the dog (a drawing of which is included in Animated News' post on the subject) will be in 'Pixar's next film after WALL-E'.

Surprisingly, the comment had not been previously noticed, even though the 'Rat' Blu-ray has been out for around eight months now.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

That is so cool, I can't wait untill Up comes out.

Rahul said...

That dog silhouette also reminds me of the dog that chases Woody and Buzz across town, in "Toy Story".

Zie said...

took that long to notice ay....

i guess people really don't listen to directors commentary....

some are good like futurama ones and such, but some are just so bad......

Anonymous said...

That's Dug [voiced by Pixarian Bob Peterson]. I love UP!