JT: So would you go as far as to deny that there's a common thread.

They may have had some other recreational activities…

JW: I think somebody had a lot of time on their hands. I'm just wondering if there's any more evidence anyone has unearthed or whether Pixar has publicly commented on this.Ī Pixar employee, Jay Ward, who was fairly involved in Cars, was asked about this shortly after the posting of Negroni’s theory in an interview with Jason Torchinsky at io9. Whether intentional or not, this is definitely an fascinating theory and Jon Negroni's take is definitely worth a read. They transport across time and that is why Merida couldn’t find the witch later in the movie. You remember Merida opening doors and the witch constantly disappearing? It’s because those doors are made the same way from Monsters Inc. The witch from Brave is actually Boo from Monster's Inc, explaining why she has a picture of Sulley in her shop. This theory covers every Pixar production since Toy Story. The doors in Monsters Inc are actually doors into the past Boo uses the same mechanism to travel back in time where she becomes the witch in Brave and sets the whole thing in motion. The animals become more and more intelligent (the fish in Finding Nemo, the dogs in Up, Ratatouille) and eventually evolve into the monster in Monsters Inc., but only after a conflict between humans and sentient machines (the toys in Toy Story, Cars (+ Planes) has come to a conclusion ( Wall-E). The theory revolves around an overall narrative involving the evolution of animals and artificial intelligence. In short, it speculates all Pixar movies actually exist within the same universe. Whether or not the theories are true, it is a pretty interesting topic and one that continues to generate interest online.I'm not sure where it originated, but and Jon Negroni have both suggested it, as well as Slate, based directly on Jon Negroni's post. It’s cool that it all worked out that way, but it probably was not intentional.” “It’s almost like the 9/11 conspiracy theories… it’s like, really? No, the movies were sort of made in a different order by different directors in different times, in different places. However, Jay Ward, an employee at Pixar, apparently denies these connections stating, He also explains how one of Pixar’s latest film Brave, may provide some explanation into how animals and humans came to co-exist in the Pixar universe. In the video I mentioned earlier, #SuperCarlinBrothers outlines some of the major themes from Jon Negroni’s thesis, as well as some additional information. There are so many in fact that Total Films compiled a list of the 50 best easter eggs in Pixar’s films.

One of the things that makes this theory so interesting, and so believable, is due to the fact that Pixar leaves ‘easter eggs’, or traces of clues which relate back to their other films within all of their films. Films he examines include A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up, Toy Story 3, Cars 2, Brave, and Monsters University. In it he outlines various Pixar films and how they all exist within a single fictional universe with a shared timeline of events. Jon Negroni however wrote his thesis called The Pixar Theory only in 2013. He deems that there is a universe created by #Pixar in which their characters within the movies all live.Īpparently I am a little behind on this discovery as the origin of this “conspiracy” if you will, dates back to as far ago as 2003. This theory was actually formulated by a gentleman named Jon Negroni. I stumbled across a youtube video today which explains in detail what is known as The Pixar Theory. The Pixar Theory, although it has been around for some time, continues to generate interest amongst media theorists.

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