Bloomington's Pete Docter ("Monsters, Inc.", "Up") is a founding member of Pixar Animation Studios' Brain Trust, a small group of creative leaders who oversee development on all Pixar films. So who better to make a movie that probes the frontal lobes?
At Walt Disney Studios' D23 expo this weekend, Pixar announced that Docter will be directing a movie set inside the mind, currently called the "Untitled Pixar Movie That Takes You Inside The Mind." It will take us on a guided tour of the human cranium and explain how thinking works (or doesn't) and how we come up with our ideas.
Docter told the assembled Disney fans that his film will explain such mysteries as attempt to answer questions such as "why do songs get stuck in your head?" It sounds like a mind-boggling "Fantastic Voyage" through human psychology.
In a recent interview with the film webzine Cinematical, Docter called thinking up delightfully weird new worlds "the hard part, but it's also the exciting part. It's the part where you start to lose your hair and you wake up at three in the morning, but looking back, it's the part that's most rewarding." The mind movie is slated for release May 30, 2014.
