Walt Disney and Pixar are unleasing Ratatouille this week and it looks like this won’t be the last time with the rats for Disney, at least not in their titles as they have just picked up the family comedy Pool Rats with Andy Fickman directing.
The film is described as a semiautobiographical story inspired by Fickman’s wild times coaching a neighborhood league swim team during a summer that he says changed both his life and his swimmers. With the shenanigans that ensued, it was hard to see who the bigger troublemaker was — the coach or the kids.
The real events transpired in Houston in the 1980s, but Pool Rats will be set in present-day.
They are hoping to go for the same style of film as Meatballs and Little Darlings. Nichole Millard, Kathryn Price and Fickman are writing the script.
