{"id":327587,"date":"2026-03-08T01:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/327587\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T01:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:01:09","slug":"pete-docter-on-why-pixar-cut-lgbtq-storyline-from-elio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/327587\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Docter on Why Pixar Cut LGBTQ Storyline From ‘Elio’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPete Docter<\/a>, chief creative officer at Pixar<\/a> and director of \u201cMonsters Inc.,\u201d \u201cUp\u201d and \u201cInside Out,\u201d recently told the Wall Street Journal<\/a> why the studio decided to completely overhaul 2025\u2019s \u201cElio<\/a>\u201d and cut out the film\u2019s LGBTQ storyline.<\/p>\n

\n\tDocter told the WSJ that Pixar didn\u2019t want to expose its young audience to things they weren\u2019t ready to see or hadn\u2019t discussed with their parents. He said, \u201cWe\u2019re making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cElio\u201d follows a lonely kid who looks to the stars for friends after being rejected as an outsider by other kids his age. Despite the clever premise, WSJ reports that the film tested poorly in early screenings, with most audiences saying they wouldn\u2019t pay to see it in theaters. In response, Docter ordered a complete overhaul of the film, even though a significant chunk of the animation was complete. The overhaul led to the exit of the film\u2019s original director, Adrian Molina.<\/p>\n

\n\tMadeline Sharafian and Domee Shi then stepped in and made significant changes to \u201cElio.\u201d This included, according to the WSJ, removing moments that indicated the title character was gay. Previous versions of the film reportedly showed Elio with a pink bike and had a scene where he imagines a life together with his male crush. The changes sparked backlash within the Pixar staff, drama that was compounded by Disney\u2019s decision to cut a transgender character<\/a> from Pixar\u2019s animated series \u201cWin or Lose.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cElio\u201d launched in June 2025, earning $150 million worldwide at the end of its run. That would be a stellar number if it weren\u2019t for the fact that the film cost $150 million to produce, not factoring in global marketing costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pete Docter, chief creative officer at Pixar and director of \u201cMonsters Inc.,\u201d \u201cUp\u201d and \u201cInside Out,\u201d recently told…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[103568,146,85,46,161855,26318],"class_list":{"0":"post-327587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-elio","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-pete-docter","13":"tag-pixar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}