Dan Gerson

  • 31 October 2005

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Actor

'Monsters, Inc.' Writer Dan Gerson Dies At 49

By Holly Williams in Movies / TV / Theatre on 09 February 2016

Dan Gerson

The Pixar wordsmith loses his battle with a brain tumour.

Cancer has claimed yet another life too young as it's announced that the co-screenwriter of 'Monsters, Inc.' and various other Pixar films Dan Gerson has passed away at just 49-years-old. This comes following a battle with brain cancer, though he is thought to have died peacefully.

Image caption Gerson co-wrote Monsters University

It was reported in the New York Times obituary column yesterday that he lost his battle with cancer on Saturday (February 6th 2016) while at his home in Los Angeles. It described him as having 'a unique zest for life, its big and little moments, and brought that spirit to all of his loved ones'.

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Monsters, Inc. Review

By Christopher Null

Excellent

The Pixar boys are at again with Monsters, Inc. taking their computer-animation talents from toys and insects to the magical world of monsters.

Magical indeed -- the way it works is that all those monsters that hide in the closet and scare little kids only do so because they have to -- they use the screams as energy to power Monstropolis, which exists just on the other side of every kid's bedroom closet door in the world.

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