And I’m so grateful to you,
I’d have lived my whole life through.
Lost forever. If I never knew you.
MONSTERS UNIVERSITY CHARACTERS
The personalities and arcs of the characters were no easy task, there are thousands of sketches establish every shot of “Monsters University” done by the team. They did a total of 227,246 drawings, more than any other Pixar film to date.
The stern Dean Hardscrabble (voiced by Helen Mirren) wasn’t easily pinned down. Writers had to play with different ideas to arrive at what would make a dean of scare-ing… scary. “Dean Hardscrabble was originally a male, and he just came in and did a lot of yelling and screaming and it didn’t really intimidate you. It’s a kind of quiet reserved judgement that really sends the chills up your spine,” Mann says of one of his favorite MU characters.
“Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise ruler born of England.”
