MONSTER HOUSE is 15! my first film came out on this day in 2006. I’ll be posting weird stuff from the film throughout the day, including storyboards, concept art, video game spinoff stuff, and ridiculous on-set photos of talented people with mo-cap dots stuck to their faces.
these are the rough drawings I brought into my first meeting with Robert Zemeckis, film god and producer of Monster House, along with fellow film god Steven Spielberg. I brought the drawings because I was about to pitch an idea about a buried spouse… Also: pizza car.
concept artists Chris Appelhans and Khang Le were two of my first hires on the film. Their paintings became the backbone of the film. Chris (images below) is now a director - his beautiful film WISH DRAGON came out earlier this year.