3 of my favorite movies happen to all be Pixar. What I find fascinating is that none of them have the same writers.
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Pixar hires outside writers to work on in-house ideas. The writers might be different but the bosses are the same for decades. Andrew Stanton is still there, and John Lasseter built pixar until he was fired.
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I recommend reading Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull.
Pixar is heavily reliant on an internal brain trust. Stories are developed exhaustively in detail with the entire team present. It's like a writers' room on steroids, sometimes only focusing on five min short. They are detail people who make films frame by frame and their approach to story is just as granular. While they use different writers and directors, the product is inherently on brand.
Random trivia; one of the co-writers of UP was Tom McCarthy who played the journalist Scott Templeton in The Wire. He also wrote Spotlight.
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Interview about Michael Arndt (writer of "Toy Story 3" and "Little Miss Sunshine") https://animatedviews.com/2010/toy-story-3/
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Animated movies from Pixar and Aardman are usually amazingly well written. In the case of Aardman where making stop-motion features is painstakingly maticulous and slow, making sure the script is amazing before committing to these shoots seems to make a lot of sense! Especially when you can't just change stuff as quickly as a live action shoot.