The idea of a huge human disaster occurred in the past can be an awesome storyline. It’s gonna have all the elements that you guys posted already, and even more:
Sulley and Mike back in college, participating in some sort of scavenger-hunt-like competition, where they have to venture into human’s world and find/bring whole bunch of things back. Rule number 1: always, no, never go out in a blizzard. Rule number 2: do NOT let humans get a sight of you!
Randall might be an elementary school boy back then. His father Eli is the sheriff in town, one of the organizers/judges for this fun competition. Yati (or Abominable Snowman, as we know him) and Bigfoot are the other participants. They are two pretty close friends, I gotta say. Nessie (or Loch Ness monster, as known in the human world) is a professor at the University of Fear, who is an expert of the human world, so he serves as a consultant/judge. Waternoose family sponsors this event.
The competitors inadvertently cause a huge mess involving all sorts of incidents. What could go wrong did go wrong. It eventually leads to Yati + Bigfoot + Nessie getting banished (I’m sure there will be scenes where Bigfoot walking around with a diaper made of poison ivy on his head), children being feared universally as killing machines, Randall hating both the human and the monster world, and Mike + Sully becoming best of buds. I gotta think more about what can possibly happen for this disaster to happen. Maybe a sheriff being a sheriff, courageously saving somebody in danger while forget about himself and lost his life. Randall misunderstood his father’s courageous deed and subsequent death as the act of human child. The one who witness it (the banished guys?) never get to speak up, because the Waternoose tried to cover it up.
Oh, and the CDA was established because of this, as it didn’t exist before.
I know it sounds like fanfic, but whatever. I wish I can get a full-time job as a writer, so that I can spend all day chasing ideas like this.
If we’re going to read into Floyd’s tweets (which I wouldn’t really suggest doing), Celia is in the movie, which isn’t too surprising. twitter.com/#!/floydnorman/statu … 6915082240
A human disaster is…shakes head How can I put this lightly without sounding like jerk…well lets go step by step.
Sullivan is absolutely terrified of a human child like Wazowski, and given the C.D.A.'s overreaction of a simple shock, if they do a scavenger-hunt for items in the human world, they’d be zapped to goo with how much human “toxins” they have. And they have been around as long as Scarering became an industry, otherwise, no Fear University.
Wouldn’t say elementary school…Randall’s about 25 during the film and has been in the factory before Sullivan and Wazowski. And given that there’s not many years from University to first day (factor in Sullivan’s high scores in scare training), there’s not too much of a time lag.
Unsure if a death would be…
A good point though is about parents. It would be VERY interesting to see the parents of everybody. We know for a fact Sullivan has a mom (and dad, if you count the info that he got his horns from him), and Wazowski has a mother. Randall’s unknown, and all that’s there for Celia is that her mother has something against men for some reason.
However as a fanfic…taps lip What the hey, go for it. Sounds like an interesting one.
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Hmm…Celia and Wazowski? Well lets see…mostly from Wazowski’s commitment that “she’s the one”. Far be it from me to judge a man on his love-life, but Wazowski thinks of himself as a ladies man. EVEN in a “serious” relationship with Celia he can flirt a little (“Chillube…baby”).
What I mean is, if they met in a University, their relationship would be more developed. And besides, they say “college is the time for experimentation” and I DOUBT Wazowski wouldn’t be making smooth talk with a gallery of ladies.
And a few years in Monsters Inc. would have passed as well for them to get up to where Randall was, so it could be anywhere between 2-8 years or so for them to STILL be dating? If that were so, surprised Celia stayed with him considering, film-wise, she seemed to want to be with him in a more…well be with him MORE than generally.
It’s a combination of Celia/Wazowski’s personalities that make it judgmental on when they meet.
That they met in college doesn’t mean they started dating back then. She can be still be a character in MU without dating Mike.
The “college is the time for experimentation” thing doesn’t make much sense. So nobody has a girlfriend in college because they’re experimenting? That’s just a cliché.
Yes. There are people who date for more than 8 years.
I think you’re assuming too much. A lot of what you’re saying is not established in the movies, you’re just guessing. And everyone’s guesses are as valid as yours.
shrugs So is cliche to have met you dream girl in college hehehe. And besides, I didn’t state everybody goes that route.
Probably so, but Celia doesn’t seem like the type to wait that long for some kind of commitment.
Not established, but being drawn from at least fact. In this instance, yes, there’s much uncertainty, and it’s unknown if Pixar will trip on it’s own toes in some instances.
Oh, man… I’m gone for like two months, and then I come back, and now it’s a prequel?!? I don’t really know how I feel about this… And now we have to wait like half a year longer…
Don’t feel too bad, it was a speculation turned probable fact rather abruptly. And before then we had a sequel with a release date…then it pushed back/up (can’t recall which) a little bit to not compete with Twilight’s newest addition…then it’s called a prequel…then they push the date back half a year.
Needless to say this one is going all over the place
I can understand that. So far, to me at least, the plot seems…lacking. I mean after all Disney’s probably done a TON on “school stories” themselves…and we already KNOW Sullivan and Wazowski are friends and have butted heads, in the original film of course. It doesn’t really need to be established…but…we’ll see how it goes.
I’m just hoping people will focus on it being M.I. INSTEAD of it being Pixar’s first prequel.
I have great feelings about this, to be honest. Prequels mean explaining the existing world by past events, and there are so much stories to tell, so many possibilities. I’m sure there will be many new awesome characters to be shown, and of course, great adventures to be had. Can’t wait!!
Leirin, you make a VERY good point there. There’s so many school setting focuses out there that in some ways it’s a tired representation.
WHILE…I admit however…that there should be nods to how a monster world school would run (include your “it ate my homework joke” here)…yes, the focus should be on the characters.
Monsters, Inc. was never about the corporate life, wasn’t it? It provided the settings, and build a solid platform for the adventure/character development. I’d say MU will be very similar to this, in that Pixar will parody college life in our world in the monsters’ world (probably just as cleverly as they did with the parodied corporate world in MI), but it’ll never be the focus of the movie. It will just be the context for Mike and Sulley to go through whatever adventures they’re facing.
