Pixar's Pete Doctor joins ReelBlend!

Soul (coming to Disney+ on Christmas Day) is the kind of Pixar movie that could have only sprung from the mind of Pete Docter. Docter started at Pixar after graduating college, in 1990 at the age of 21. He went on to contribute to the studio’s pioneering short films and initial features like Toy Story, and made the leap to director with 2001’s Monsters, Inc. (a film that lost the inaugural Best Animated Feature Oscar to, ugh, Shrek). Since then, his projects have always stood out from the crowd – he came up with the initial concept for WALL•…

“Where do we come from? Why are we here? ... It gets to some deep stuff.”

Pixar is currently riding high on the positive buzz for Toy Story 4 (and they should be; it's fantastic). They're also getting out ahead of the 2020 movie season by announcing a brand new, original feature that's due out in theaters exactly a year from today. Soul, previously unannounced, will tackle "life's most important questions" on a journey that travels from New York City to the "cosmic realms", whatever that means. The acclaimed animation studio teased the new release in a brief social media post today, which you can see below. Soul isn't the only …