It Turns Out The Original “Monsters Inc” Plot Was Surprisingly Dark

Speaking about the film’s origins, Pete Docter, the director of 2001’s Monsters Inc, said on Jeff Goldsmith’s Creative Screenwriting podcast: “Well, my idea was that what it was about was about a 30-year-old man who is like an accountant or something.

“He hates his job, and one day he gets a book with some drawings in it that he did when he was a kid from his mum, and he doesn’t think anything of it, and 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

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