The story was originally built around a 32-year-old computer programmer whose life becomes incredibly complicated once his childhood fears and phobias suddenly become real. For almost a year, this is the story idea that Pete Docter seriously tried to turn into a workable screenplay. The hero of the film was supposed to be a computer programmer who is leading this incredibly humdrum life. The guy's career and love life were going nowhere. He's at a dead end, spiritually and emotionally. All seems lost until the guy's mother (who's in the process of turning his old bedroom into a guest room) sends the computer programmer a box full of his childhood belongings. Among the objects in this box is a book of a drawings that the computer programmer made when he was a kid. "And what are these drawings of?" you ask. The monsters that our hero used to dream up back when he was six or seven. As the computer programmer opens up this book, some loose pages flutter to the floor of his cubicle at work. He thinks nothing of this... Until the monsters on these pages suddenly spring to life, stepping out into the real world and begin harassing the poor guy. Docter was hoping that Pixar could produce a film that would put a post-modern spin on Harvey (1950). Only the computer programmer can see the monsters that were now bedeviling him. None of this guy's co-workers are aware of the nightmarish creatures that are now making this guy's life a living hell. Over time, the film's story would be revealed that these monsters aren't just any monsters. They were the actual physical incarnations of the computer programmer's childhood fears. Phobias that continue to hold this guy back even in his adult life. And -- as our hero dealt with each of these creatures -- he'd end up confronting one of his childhood fears. And once he did so ... That monster would disappear.

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