We\u2019ve written before at HuffPost UK about how different the pitch for Pretty Woman \u2013 originally called 3000 \u2013 was from the film we know now.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t get me started on the extremely unlikely source material for Dirty Dancing 2, either.<\/p>\n
As it turns out, the first version of Pixar\u2019s Monsters Inc was almost unrecognisable from the film that eventually hit cinemas as well.<\/p>\n
For instance, the original script didn\u2019t include lovable protagonist Sulley (at least not in his monster form).<\/p>\n
Instead, an early plot focused on a 30-year-old accountant.<\/p>\n
Speaking about the film\u2019s origins, Pete Docter, the director of 2001\u2019s Monsters Inc, said on Jeff Goldsmith\u2019s Creative Screenwriting podcast: \u201cWell, my idea was that what it was about was about a 30-year-old man who is like an accountant or something.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe 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\u2019t think anything of it, and he puts it on the shelf and that night, monsters show up. And nobody else can see them.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe thinks he\u2019s starting to go crazy; they follow him to his job and on his dates, and all this \u2013 and it turns out these monsters are fears that he never dealt with as a kid.\u201d<\/p>\n
A bit like fellow Pixar hit Inside Out, which includes personified emotions, each of these monsters would have represented a different one of the office worker\u2019s fears.<\/p>\n
As soon as he was healed from one of the fears these monsters symbolised, it would go away. This was actually a little bittersweet, as the original plot\u2019s main character grew close to some of his new companions.<\/p>\n
While I have you, here\u2019s another fact about the first movie: Boo actually had a real name all along. Eagle-eyed fans spotted a detail suggesting she was called Mary, like the child actor Mary Gibbs, who voiced her.<\/p>\n
Real-life Mary has since voiced characters in Inside Out, though she was only two years old when she starred in Monsters Inc.<\/p>\n