{"id":3256,"date":"2011-04-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/dan-scanlon-named-monsters-university-director"},"modified":"2011-04-01T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T01:00:00","slug":"dan-scanlon-named-monsters-university-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/dan-scanlon-named-monsters-university-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Scanlon Named Monsters University Director!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/images\/1398.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 134px; height: 89px\" height=\"89\" src=\"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/images\/1398.jpg\" width=\"134\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>A rising star at Pixar has taken his talents to new heights. It was confirmed today that Dan Scanlon is currently directing <em>Monsters University<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Best known to Pixar fans as the man behind <em>Mater and the Ghostlight<\/em>, Dan has been working at Pixar for the last ten years. Not only is he talented, but he&#8217;s also a genuinely nice guy. (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MrDanScanlon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check him out on Twitter<\/a>.) It will definitely be interesting to see his take on the monster world.<\/p>\n<p>Although the news broke today, we were told that&nbsp;the&nbsp;director credit&nbsp;was supposed to be announced at CinemaCon in Las Vegas along with the title of the upcoming prequel. <em>Monsters University<\/em> follows Mike and Sulley in their college days, at a point when they weren&#8217;t exactly best buds. See more from the <a href=\"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/monsters-inc-prequel-titled-monsters-university\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CinemaCon reveal here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Scanlon&#8217;s <em>Monsters University<\/em> opens November 2, 2012.<\/p>\n<p><em>Your thoughts?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tmnf_excerpt\"><p>A rising star at Pixar has taken his talents to new heights. It was confirmed today that Dan Scanlon is currently directing Monsters University. Best known to Pixar fans as the man behind Mater and the Ghostlight, Dan has been working at Pixar for the last ten years. Not only is he talented, but he&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dan Scanlon Named Monsters University Director! - Upcoming Pixar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/dan-scanlon-named-monsters-university-director\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dan Scanlon Named Monsters University Director! - Upcoming Pixar\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A rising star at Pixar has taken his talents to new heights. 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