Ratatouille (film) Ratatouille, created and run by Remy, Linguini, and Colette. The rats settle into their new home in the bistro's roof. Jan Pinkava came up with the concept in 2000, creating the original design, sets and characters and core storyline, but he was never formally named the director of the film. Lacking confidence in Pinkava's story development, Pixar management replaced him with Bird in 2005. Bird was attracted to the film because of the outlandishness of the concept and the conflict that drove it: that rats feared kitchens, yet a rat wanted to work in one. Bird was also delighted that
Jerry Remy Remy's hometown of Fall River that opened in October 2012, which in March 2018, "The Herald News" of Fall River reported would be closed. Remy was inducted into the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2006, elected honorary President of Red Sox Nation in 2007, and was inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2017. Remy is author of the books "Watching Baseball" and "Jerry Remy's Red Sox Heroes", both co-authored with Corey Sandler, and several children's books about Red Sox mascot Wally the Green Monster, which began as an idea based on Remy's stories about Wally