Pixar rejected my Up sequel Down. Carl tying boulders to his house to drag it underground so he can rescue Ellie from hell “didn’t make sense” according to the suits. “Why is Ellie in hell? She didn’t commit any sins.” Yes she did, hubris
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Also with the weak backstory how do we know she didn't like to blaspheme, she could have been a secret serial killer. They dont know or have the creative drive to go know what lets take the risk!
Plus Ellie had a few deleted deathbed confession scenes of how she participated in Jim Crow America that are on the DVD. Very convenient of them to leave that out so we won’t get the sequel we deserve…
I mean, if you go only by the text of the Bible in the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, there’s a pretty good argument that there’s no cohesive concept of hell and that the Book of Revelation just says non-believers get thrown into a lake of fire and annihilated body and soul.
I wrote one called “S’up?” Where Carl buys a new house and parties in the sky for years until he can’t make the final balloon payment. He snaps and goes up high to drop bad stuff on the bank, making it go boom-boom, saying “Would have done it sooner but not enough ‘interest’. Get it?” Credits roll.
You should have pitched it as a multiverse crossover with Hercules (wrt Hades). Then, the money would start flowing, and you'd go straight to streaming.
What if an obvious allegory for Satan makes him choose between his marriage and the life of his two hundred year old aunt, kicking off a soft reboot for the up franchise
Add a plot twist half way through the movie where we learn that Ellie was a very prolific serial killer while alive. Carl had been her cover all along, and now has to escape literal hell while being chased by his murderous dead wife who will not allow him to leave an expose her secret. For the kids
You might try having him go to hell by having a volcano flow take him there. Rescuing his idol from hell because he is redeemed for caring for dogs in hell. He gets in a jam he can't get out of so Ellie from heaven interviens and gets them out.
Also, don't forget Ellie experienced a miscarriage - so as a result she is certainly morally deficient enough to be condemned to hell, and therefore a suitable target for harassment, if not an outright criminal investigation...
How about the sequel ‘Up 2 : No Good’ where Carl embarks on a drink and drug fuelled rampage in order to guarantee his passage into hell to be reunited with his beloved (albeit sinful) wife Ellie
They told me “Up 3: Ford Fiesta Funtime” didn’t make any sense as a brand tie in let alone the fact there isn’t a second one yet, but I told them the story payoff would make it all worth it if Carl gifted his Ford Fiesta to Russell after saving the president.
I do not believe that sweet old lady went to hell. Thank you Pixar. Honestly, Up is a gem. 💎 I don't think that sequel would have been as well recieved.
Compromise: Down is a *prequel* to Up, where Carl floats his RV out into the atlantic in efforts to sink it deep, deep underwater. Why is he doing this? To reach the sunken city of ATLANTIS to find ancient medicines for his dying wife.
Pixar is just afraid to take risks, they just don't see the vision. The vision being Carl being guided through Hell by Virgil and seeing all the people that Jim Morris didn't like personally suffering throughout the nine layers.
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Basically Disney’s Orpheus and Eurydice.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KwiYyzdbbh0&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fclickhole.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY
Ellie “Eurydice” Fredricksen.
Get Carl head and wristbands!
He's never gonna give you Up.
[Shout-out to all my fellow Gen-X'ers.]
I don’t see how this isn’t gold.
(not real medicine, though - wife doesn't make it.)