Last time we saw Sully and Mike in Pixar's
Monsters, Inc, they were living happily at the top of their monster corporation, remaining friends with their human child (no, not literally!) Boo. That was ten years ago- boy, doesn't time fly- so it's high time Pixar Animation got to work on a sequel, right? Wrong. Instead, today the studio announced a prequel movie,
Monsters University for release in 2012. John Goodman and Billy Crystal will return as James P. "Sully" Sullivan and Michael "Mike" Wasiokowoski in a new plot. According to vice president Dave Hollis,
Monsters University is "a prequel that tells you a little bit about how Mike and Sully first met.", and while in the original it seemed like the pair of child-scarers "were the best of friends, as it turns out, that wasn't always the case! This story takes you through the ups and downs, and how they overcame their own differences." With any other animation studio at the helm, we'd be worried the next instalment would not do its predecessor justice, yet with
Toy Story 3 and hopefully
Cars 2 already having showcased Pixar's dedication to every film they make, fans can expect great things next December. Better still, the producers are also releasing a brand new animation,
Brave, in June 2012, and even closer are two new
Toy Story shorts set to air in front of
Cars 2 and
The Muppets later this year.
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