View this original telling of the story and see for yourself how things evolved into the film we all know. Narrated by Pete Docter, the director of the film. Enjoy!
The basis of this movie went from being about a monster who dreams of being top scarer to being about one who is already #1, but soon begins to question his purpose in life near the end.
@@joshuaball5916 well yeah it's only after boo entered his life that he started questioning if being top scarer or scaring as a whole was really worth doing
I THOUGHT I MADE THIS UP! I found it once, ONCE, on my DVD and could never figure out how I did it and never saw it again. After over ten years of looking through all the features on both the movie DVD and Special Features, I gave up and thought I imagined it. BUT APPARENTLY I JUST WASN'T LOOKING HARD ENOUGH. Excuse me, I will now be banging my head against something.
Omg sameeee!! When I was sm younger I remember watching this on the dvd. Recently I started to remember the og treatment and I tried to find it but I couldn’t find it anywhere until I found this video! Litterally got sm nostalgia watching this!
I think so too! Would be awesome to see a short film of this be produced by Pixar. They could advertise it as Monster’s Inc: The Story You Never Saw...I love how they already incorporated Randy’s music in it too!
I remember when Monsters, Inc. first came out on DVD. My sister and I would watch all the bonus content on disc 2 all the time, and we found ourselves repeatedly coming back to this storyboard. The scenes with the landlady spying on the apartment and where Mary is surrounded in the streets still unsettle me to this day
Okay. Majority of this story was terrifying to the younger me but from 5:38-6:05, I was crapping my pants and in tears. The landlady is nightmare fuel!
It definitely would've been a very creepy scene to watch as a kid if this was fully animated instead. The thick shadows and lighting is a very horror-like atmosphere. (Which the majority of the colors has.)
Johnson- Sully(obviously) The boss- Mr. Waternoose Ned- Randall Mary- Boo (In final verison you can see the name "Mary" on Boo's drawings) Landlady- possibly Roz These are my predictions on the characters ended up being in the final version. What do you guys think?
Xander G. They also had a version in storyboard when Sulley becomes Ned/Randall’s assistant, same as Mike. As we all know, this didn’t work out in the end, with Mike becoming Sulley’s assistant and Randall finding an assistant in Fungus and we are given the story we now know and love...
Feels a bit weird "Johnson" would be perfectly fine with just up leaving the monster world, never to return. That was probably one of the (many) problems they found with this particular pitch: it ends up just painting the monster world as bad and oppressive, when it should just be an imaginative, quirky take on our world but with monsters
@@DefaultAvatarWell the point of Bob Parr is that he legally can't do what he is best at. He is at the top, but can't be himself, so it's a whole different trope
So sometime in 2000 when the film was in development, James P. Sullivan was originally named Johnson as its was revealed in the directors original story and the animation test when he was picking a tie, also he was originally going to be a bit of a slacker like in the deleted scenes, but it would seem a bit greedy for its character. These elements like the child running all over the monster world is mentioned by Mr. Waternoose in the final film and having Boo's original character being a bit older.
While I will admit there are some decent ideas in this version, what really would have killed it was the plot point where Johnson/Sully keeps Mary’s/Boo’s repaired door a secret not because he doesn’t want her to leave since they have grown a bond, but rather for his own selfish reasons so he can keep his track record to be the best scarer. Thus eventually leading to her finding out about this and leading to the typical, “main characters argue and separate at the end of the second act before eventually reconciling later cliche”. While it was a decent movie idea to start off with this early draft, I think we can all agree the final version of the movie we ended up with is MUCH better.
I agree. Also, this coming out after releasing Bug's Life just a few years before would have made both feel samey, since they would share a few tropes and similar plot structures
This is very interesting, I only found out recently that the original story was very different because I got this book called "The art of Monsters Inc." where they mention Sullivan went through a lot of changes because the story changed a lot. I wish some of this was included in the book
Come, now: if Sulley came through your closet he’d probably be wondering why you’re fighting with each other. He’d want the two of you to be getting along and appreciating each other
I gotta say, I really like the vibe of this version. It sort of has a 50s-esque quality to it and I really like how foreboding and demented the monster world looks. The story still needed a bit of work, though I think a lot of it was there. Admittedly, I was never the biggest fan of Monsters Inc, it's not bad exactly, but I think it's on the lower end of Pixar's solid run from '95 to 2010. It's cool to see this, though, and I'd love for something to be made in this sort of style
Ray Sipe I'm talking about the original script before replacing tin toy for buzz and before woody was a cowboy doll. Both characters were supposed to go on a road trip until they found a true home.
Oh you mean the one with the tin toy who gets lost at a rest stop while on vacation with his family and he gets discovered by a junk man and he throws him in the back of his truck and in the truck he befriends a ventriloquist dummy and they end up at a preschool where they’ll never get lost or for gotten (big gasp) (big exhale)
The original movie may be obviously better and such... but this is still really, really good! i love this alternate version in it's own ways... it's definitely the perfect kind of story i'd tell to my kids.
I would love to see a 2-D animated special adapt this. Not a bad concept or artwork, I think. Distinct enough from the final product to be worthy of appreciation.
Characters in order: Johnson - Sully Mary - Boo (boo’s real name is actually Mary, you can see it on the Randall drawing) The Boss - Mr. Waternoose Land lady - Ross Ned - Randall Mary’s monster disguise - Mike
Such memories, I really wish Pixar would do something like this more often, like I would love to listen to what the original treatment of WALL•E was like since I've heard about the whole "Robot Spartacus" "Alien" treatment
The first time I saw this I was a young preteen watching the special features on the DVD. I spent nearly the whole night doing it. By the time I got to the section on this, there is like a 15 minute history before they do this bit, I feel asleep for maybe like 5 minutes, when I wake up it's during the middle of this and it freaked me out cause I was so confused. It took me forever to find this little gem again.
I can't say this is better or worse than the finished product. (Since the original is so close to me from my childhood.) But I would just say it's different. It's good in a different way. If the actual movie is like How to Train Your Dragon, then this version is basically like Wreck It Ralph. It's not like other Pixar movies where their original stories were obviously inferior to the finished film, this is one I wouldn't have minded if the original movie didn't exist and we had this one. It still had the same emotional beats, charm and creativity of the actual movie. Also, these character designs would've looked really good in CGI. Granted it's not as bright and colorful and is more dark, green and shadowy looking, it still would've looked cool to see in 2000/2001. And part of me feels kinda bummed we didn't see this slightly edgier version with an older Boo. Many of the original 1997 concept art on The Art of Monsters Ink had some really appealing designs. (Some designed by the guy that did How to Train Your Dragon.)
It's interesting that they made Sully a competent scarer in the eventual movie, making it so he has more to lose, if Johnson had been the main character it would have leaned more into him *wanting* things to change from Scaring to Joking.
What I dont like is that it's like a story where the protagonist is unsuccessful where sully is threatened to be fired for not being good at his job Then when something bad happens like this kid comes into the monster world And he is only successful by being dishonest and is caught in the end for his dishonesty The only change I would have wanted is for sully Johnson to still be either the best scarer or at least second best
Agreed. Johnson just isn't very likeable here, especially because he purposely keeps Mary in the monster world just so she can do his scares. Completely selfish.
@@connorbrennan4233 this version is like your typical liars act story with the protagonist telling rubbish or even obvious fibs through his teeth then in the end when the truth is finally revealed there is a lot of consequences plus mopeing for the protagonist
@@connorbrennan4233Well, it's important for heroes to have flaws or make selfish choices. I actually didn't like Sully and one of the reasons is because he lacks flaws.
I would love a full 2D animated film version of this. The art's got a sort of gritty feel to it, almost like some sort of artsy/gothic cartoon of some sort (I'd try to think of one to compare it to, but I'm drawing a blank; still, you know what I mean, right?).
This feels like a 80s to 90s cartoon feature. Don Bluth´s, Turner, Warner Bros., and Universal´s cartoon films. Not Disney though, because Disney had an better, magical taste.
On another note, the history behind these two races stems back to caveman times. There were two tribes: the Mans and the Mons. The Mons wanted to make peace with the Mans, but they saw the former as inferior and drove them from the mainland. The Mons found a magical island that gave them the abilities and body parts of whatever they ate on that island. One of them happens upon his own reflection, and he is terrified. This gives him an idea - giving the Mans a taste of their own medicine. As payback for driving out the Mons, the Mans were scared by the Mons every night. The Mons became known as Monsters, and the Mans would be us Humans. How Monsters created their own separate world is unclear.
When I was about to turn eight, When I first saw this original treatment, as this was the early version, I too just sat there nervous while listening through the whole thing. Like the early production of the Jungle Book, the production of Monsters Inc, with this original treatment was more of a dark and mysterious story with those illustrations.
You can tell they revisted these initial ideas when writing Monster's University because the character motivation for Mike is the same, down to the ultimatum of being fired/expelled due to not being scary. I like that they did that. MU is still one of the only good Pixar sequels in my opinion.
For some reason, I remember this story seeming more mature and weird as a kid but it really isn't. It actually feels more childish with the cowardly monster teaming up with spunky girl plot. There is a bit of bittersweetness with the ending and I like how oppressive and conformist the Monster World feels.
can anyone find the abandoned concepts where Sully wasn't a scarer, but more of an engineer and Mike was Randell assistant? I had that concept stuff on DVD, but i cant find any footage on youtube! help me please
Wow that’s a lot of big change for the movie. Johnson is a clumsy and coward monster, who tries to struggle become scary as possible and Mike is just a chill monster and very supportive to his friend, but somehow he is a sterotypical playboy. Later on the new concept. Mike has been replaced by Mary who’s a human young girl disguise herself as monster and moody person, while Johnson still stay the same. Later on the final one. Johnson is now renamed Sully, he is now mature and courage monster, Mike is finally back but he’s no longer sterotypical playboy. And finally we have Mary whos renamed herself as Boo.
I actually think this would have made a better movie. I never did like Sully, I thought he was too cocky in the opening and too goody good for the rest of the movie. Johnson seems more three dimensional. And instead of being edged on into a bad choice like Sully, Johnson willingly makes a bad choice. But we know and understand why he does it. And it shows kids that even good people can make bad or selfish choices. I also like Mary more then Boo. Boo was just a toddler who barely had any self awareness. So there's little character and she only exists for comedy and heart warming scenes. Mary seems more like a character and more like a kid. Kids are not little angels, or nor are they little demons. They are complicated, flawed human beings with all the benefits and drawbacks of being a human. True she becomes a good friend of Johnsnon. But she's also allowed to get angry at him. She also has a bit of a dark side as well. In other, I think these characters were more like real people.
i love what the movie is but damm i really like this version aswel i would love to have it printed as a childerens book with all the art. LOVE the art btw