Bernard Loiseau, the iconic French chef who served as an inspiration for Pixar’s Ratatouille, is set to get the biopic treatment. Chi-Fou-Mi Productions, the Paris-based production company behind such French box office hits as Beating Hearts (2024), The Stronghold (2020) and Dog 51 (2025) is working with the Loiseau’s family on a feature film inspired by the life and legacy of the chef, famous for his three-Michelin-star restaurant La Côte d’Or, which turned the Burgundy village of Saulieu in a world-renowned gastronomic destination. Thomas Lilti, a French director known for his films and TV series about doctors and the medical profession, including Irreplaceable (2016) and Hippocrates: Diary of a French Doctor (2014)) is attached to direct. Chi-Fou-Mi, a Mediawan company, will produce together with Lilti’s 31 Juin Films. Loiseau was a leading figure on the French, and international, food scenes throughout the 1980s and ’90s. His life ended tragically, via suicide, in 2007. The cause of his death was the source of wide-spread speculation in the French media, with reports of depression brought on by …