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.

@karenfan010

Жыл бұрын

it’s amazing how things change drastically.

@joshuaball5916

Жыл бұрын

Sullivan was questioning himself?

@kingdedede5570

Жыл бұрын

@@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

@evanholloway1692

5 ай бұрын

@@kingdedede5570and he realized how terrified he made all the children he scared when he saw the fear in Boo’s eyes.

@godzillavkk

4 ай бұрын

I actually like that idea better. I didn't like Sully in the opening. Too cocky.

I still think the final product is a better story, but this is still a decent concept.

@artistsometimes2729

5 жыл бұрын

it's interesting to see the similarities.

@cameronholladay3605

4 жыл бұрын

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!

@naturebrothers1844

3 жыл бұрын

The part with the land lady reminded me of the Jurassic park raptors

As a kid, these illustrations and the narration always scared the crap outta me

@marianaandrade991

5 жыл бұрын

geez me too

@albertmaggiolo7448

5 жыл бұрын

Same same

@noahmizen7001

5 жыл бұрын

Is that Pete Doctor himself narrating this story

@albertmaggiolo7448

5 жыл бұрын

@@noahmizen7001 yeah

@skunkman9815

5 жыл бұрын

How did this scare you

Why hasn't this been turn into a children's book

@oscarramirez2697

4 жыл бұрын

That would be cool AF

@chonkykamote1758

4 жыл бұрын

Becauseit turned into a movie

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.

@yoongisballs234

5 жыл бұрын

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!

@chilad5966

5 жыл бұрын

You all are adorable, you know that?

@cameronholladay3605

4 жыл бұрын

It’s in the Bonus DVD in the Human World (the door vault) in the door called “Story”

@BrooklynMcupkiller

4 жыл бұрын

@@cameronholladay3605 Thank you. I might literally cry. I swore I checked everywhere. I knew it was a door but I thought I clicked them all.

@cameronholladay3605

4 жыл бұрын

BrooklynMcupkiller no problem! Hopefully, it works for you. Some really awesome features on that disc!!

As a kid, the artwork where Johnson realizes he’s in Mary’s room scared me so badly. The music, the facial expression, everything

@brandonspain12345

2 ай бұрын

For me, it was 5:52. Definitely a suspenseful scene and definitely would've been a very effective sequence to watch if this version was made.

Interesting Tidbit: Mary is Boo’s actual name. If you watch carefully, you see her name on one of her drawings.

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?

@nic.k_o

4 жыл бұрын

Makes sense

@xanderg.1070

4 жыл бұрын

I guess Mike came into the story later in production

@johnj.hillyerv940

4 жыл бұрын

@@xanderg.1070 good point

@cameronholladay3605

4 жыл бұрын

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...

@vanessanessa2761

4 жыл бұрын

monsters inc in early scenes from 1999

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!

@brandonspain12345

2 ай бұрын

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.)

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

@Gorilla-r4g

2 ай бұрын

To be fair, Johnson would have been sent to prison, let alone executed for harboring a human kid in the monster world. That’s the last thing he wants.

It is interesting, there aren't a lot of Disney movies where the protagonist starts the movie as the top-ranked whatever they do.

@DefaultAvatar

2 жыл бұрын

Well, there are a few. Woody, Sully, Bob Parr (maybe), Lighting McQueen, Joy (sort of), Mei Linn (i think as a top student)

@ResettisReplicas

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefaultAvatar I think it's cheating to include a movie that didn't exist when I wrote my comment.

@braziliantsar

6 ай бұрын

​@@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

This sounds like a good pilot to a cartoon show

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.

@yorchXP

2 жыл бұрын

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

@godzillavkk

3 ай бұрын

Well, I thought Sully was too goody good. He didn't have any notable flaws. This one, is an understandable flaw.

@tizianoferrigno588

2 ай бұрын

@@godzillavkkNobody agrees with you loser

As you can see the story didn't have Mike in it.

@garfeedandgrowfish

5 жыл бұрын

SesameFan it sorta did cause "boo" outfit looked a little like mike

@berandom2000

5 жыл бұрын

And the finalized version looked like a buddy comedy film

@camrynsumner1899

5 жыл бұрын

...Or So Help Me!

@SleepingdogsFanCrimewatchFan

5 жыл бұрын

@@jaydan1337 im sorry for you

@skunkman9815

5 жыл бұрын

This was before mike was created

The monster in africa was honestly terrifying

@Helicopter7

3 жыл бұрын

I’d be horrified if I saw that thing in my room lol

@lewismcdonald985

2 жыл бұрын

Its not a monster..... *Its Satan*

@sophiethetabby

Жыл бұрын

I don’t really find it that creepy, but I’ll be terrified if I saw it irl 😅

This scared me as a kid

@skunkman9815

5 жыл бұрын

How

@skunkman9815

5 жыл бұрын

That’s what monsters do they scare kids

@rossdiamondthief6627

4 жыл бұрын

Skunk Man it’s just eerie. The illustrations, the music, how it’s just still drawings with a moving camera and sound effects.

@IkeFanBoy64

3 жыл бұрын

Same. It's why I decided to rewtach it all these years later. Nowhere near as bad as I remember, but still eerie at times.

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.

@lucylocket4740

4 жыл бұрын

Production of Monsters, Inc actually commenced in May 1999. Peter Docter came up with the idea of the film in 1994!

@brandonspain12345

2 ай бұрын

​@@lucylocket4740 The art of Monsters Inc has many concept art for this version with Johnson and Mary and many of them were dated back in 1997.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if DreamWorks took a spin on this :D

@bigboomer1013

3 жыл бұрын

Feels like an illumination studio movie to be honest.

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

I like this besides the ending. The ending is more like a tv episode ending not a movie ending

@michaelfixedsys7463

4 жыл бұрын

The ending felt a little like what happened with Randall

This needs to be a children's book

Marys monster outfit definetly makes you think of Mike. This honestly is a decent story in its own right even if the final product is still better.

The Illustration, sounds, and the narrator gives me the creeps. But it's still great!

@brandonspain12345

2 ай бұрын

The illustrations definitely look like a kid's book you'd once read in Elementary school and are somewhat spooked yet intrigued by.

Definitely one of the most intriguing original treatments Pixar has ever made, along with "Yellow Car" (Cars) and "Bugs" (A Bug's Life)

@gustavoperezjrsshow3045

5 ай бұрын

American Car (Cars) is taken place in with the Number 57 (Original Lightning McQueen) Bugs (A Bug’s Life) is taken place in with Red (Original Flik)

Finally, thanks i was searching this.

@raytha1st

6 жыл бұрын

José David Catemac Same here I been searching forever

@noahmizen7001

5 жыл бұрын

Me 2

@youtuber9566

5 жыл бұрын

Shockwave impression : I as well this story seems illogical

I wonder why pixar never made one for the original treatment for Toy Story. They made one for A Bug's Life.

@lillordakira9752

6 жыл бұрын

Couldn't be unwatchable like the emoji movie or teen titans go

@mainstreamerchannel9919

6 жыл бұрын

You mean the Black Friday Reel

@lillordakira9752

6 жыл бұрын

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.

@skunkman9815

6 жыл бұрын

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)

@cameronholladay3605

4 жыл бұрын

Or the one where Buzz was known as Tempus from Morph?

Happy 20th Anniversary, Monsters, Inc.!

I feel sorry for Mary being scared all the time by her brothers my little brother always scared me when we where kids

@jonathandennis3203

Жыл бұрын

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

5:53 God that image is terrifying! I don't understand how this is creepier now than when I was a child.

@brandonspain12345

2 ай бұрын

It definitely would’ve been a scary scene if it was fully animated in 2000.

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

@lancerutt9936

2 жыл бұрын

I like the idea of the monster world being outright oppressive and Johnson needing to escape it

JESUS THIS IS NOSTALGIA

Was anyone else give a Ralph and Vanoplope vibe ?

11:18 awww I know Mary is super sad But I think that picture is kinda cute

This one feels more like a made for TV movie

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.

Wow, I love the original, and I’m kinda disappointed that we wouldn’t get to see this animated, but I’m still happy we get to see this.

I've been looking for this since i lost the movie when i was a kid, loved this narrative story😍

Anybody noticed that Mary‘s costume looks just like Mike wasouski in the final movie

I do of course love the Monsters Inc we got, but this is pretty good too.

DUUUUUDE I REMEMBER WATCHING THIS WHEN I WAS A KID OMG

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

This would make the story kind of more bad because no mike wazouski= no mike wazouski memes

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.

I love this story

@danarichman1170

2 жыл бұрын

Me too! I am so mad Pixar did not do it this way!

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.)

After loosing my monsters inc dvd i thought id never see this concept clip ever again! Im so glad its been uploaded.

@sesamefan4049

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome :)

Those monster scaring concepts are used in the First Day video.

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

@connorbrennan4233

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@noahmizen7001

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

@godzillavkk

3 ай бұрын

That's something I didn't like about Sully in the opening. Far too cocky.

@godzillavkk

3 ай бұрын

@@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.

@connorbrennan4233

3 ай бұрын

@@godzillavkk He's blind to how his scaring affects the children. His unintentional scaring of Boo opens his eyes to reality.

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

This video will always be my favorite. The editing, the vibes, the music! I love it!

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.

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.

So Johnson is sulley and Mary is boo and the boss is waternoose and ned is Randall and security is the CDA

@disgustof-riley8338

3 жыл бұрын

Mary has a lot of Mike's traits

2:46 One girl and ten boys that's similar to one boy and ten girls in the animated TV series The Loud House

Is that Pete doctor himself narrating this story

@SamuelG2000

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, take a look at the description.

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.

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.

This is actually kinda better than the final movie!

@danarichman1170

2 жыл бұрын

No kidding......I wish Pixar would have done it this way! I would have liked it much better!

@godzillavkk

3 ай бұрын

@@danarichman1170Me too.

@godzillavkk

2 ай бұрын

@@tizianoferrigno588 Neither do you, tiny.

Can we have this scrapped made into a movie please!

@danarichman1170

2 жыл бұрын

YEAH!! I am so mad that Pixar did not make the movie like this!!

Looks awfully like flapjack.

Mike didn't even exist back then. Terrible idea, good thing they changed it

This rules big time even though Pete Docter narrates this story pretty good.

This became Tyler Tuskman in monsters at work show. Except he's not good at comedy. Even kept the tusk thing .

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.

2:00 WE’VE GOT A 2319

What a cool story

Wow it’s like an inspiration from a book like this one cause this bonus feature is like a story book made by someone!

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.

11:38 Does anyone else know that the helicopters here have eyes themselves and the light is coming out of them

James p Johnson sullivan

That's a good story nice good story telling i❤ story time a bedtime is the best night ever

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.

@pacmanfan-sz9ry

3 жыл бұрын

actually, MU is a prequel

That ending is sweet though

Music by Randy Newman.

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?).

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

0:25 "oh......"

Amm... Wreck it Ralph?

@brandonspain12345

2 ай бұрын

But with monsters…

Where's Mary's parents?

So did Mary end up becoming Boo AND Mike in fine final product?

If you seen transformers you'd know what I was talking about

This story would make a great expansion into the Monsters Inc universe.

This is actually basically Soul

@brandonspain12345

2 ай бұрын

Same director too.

Would have hit different without mike

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.

@godzillavkk

4 ай бұрын

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.

Its weird how the kid was originally mike ._.

13:10 So sully remains in the human world forever

@tonyleppanen6773

5 жыл бұрын

Unless he's going to the other house and goes back into the monster world when it's about to be opened by an another monster.

@noahmizen7001

5 жыл бұрын

@@tonyleppanen6773 how will he know when to do it or what if there is no kid in that house

@IkeFanBoy64

3 жыл бұрын

@@tonyleppanen6773 I mean, he's kind of a wanted criminal in his home world, so it's probably not the smartest idea to return.

@IkeFanBoy64

3 жыл бұрын

@@alvarer1 I dunno

@noahmizen7001

3 жыл бұрын

@@IkeFanBoy64 maybe he goes back under a second identity or wait out until they stop hunting him down

Johnson’s design in this video actually inspired one of my Emotester drawings on deviantart.

Is there one for other pixar films

So Johnson’s first appearance evolved into the beginning of the movie, if you know what I mean.

I didn't get this when I was a kid

Wouldnt mind if this became a side story Edit: 5:55 was kinda creepy

@snakeeyes2777

3 жыл бұрын

IKR, creepy as hell

@1985vman

3 жыл бұрын

Well there monsters so of course there gonna be creepy, but yes that scared tf out of me

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

@danarichman1170

2 жыл бұрын

I WISH PIXAR WOULD HAVE DONE IT THIS WAY!!!!!

It seems like the original concept had a lot more horror elements that got toned down.

@brandonspain12345

2 ай бұрын

I remember seeing concept art that depicted the Monster city as something like Tim Burton’s Gotham City in animated form. I think they were trying to experiment with the city looking dark and foreboding since it’s inhabited by monsters before they decided to go with an unusual approach and have the city look mostly like our world with small tweaks that looks like monster live there.

What is children did not have closet in their room how the monster get in the room to scare kids to collets the screams.

@RAINBOWNIGTHMAREPRODUCTIONS

4 жыл бұрын

Austin Howells those kids aren’t targeted likely

@1985vman

3 жыл бұрын

They only do that to the kids who have closets, duhh

Nice job 👏👍👌😀🙌😄

I like how the movie could’ve ended with a monster living the rest of his days in the human world.

0:32 omg that is the ice age baby!

Same music of the final flim randy newman