Director Reveals Original "Monster's Inc" Story Pi...

Director Pete Docter participated in a Creative Screenwriting Magazine podcast, revealing the original pitch for Pixar's "Monsters, Inc" that's very different from the actual movie.

Docter's pitch: "My idea was that it was about was about a 30 year old man who is an accountant or something. He hates his job. And one day he gets a book with some drawings, that he did when he was a kid, from his mom. He doesn't think anything of it, he puts it on the shelf and that night, monsters show up. And nobody else can see them."

"He thinks he's starting to go crazy. They follow him to his job, and on his dates, and it turns out that these monsters are fears that he never dealt with as a kid. And each one of them represents a different kind of fear. As he conquers those fears, the guys who he slowly becomes friends with, they disappear as he conquers those fears. It's this bittersweet ending where they go away."

Sounds like a great idea for a Pixar movie, but Docter admits that "it sounds better as a pitch."