Unconfirmed reports are coming out of Emeryville that Pixar has chosen the director for their recently announced and highly anticipated prequel to Monsters, Inc.

Monsters University was revealed to the world a few days ago and will go back to the college days of Mike and Sully where they are rumoured to begin as rivals. No official synopsis was given, neither were  details of the cast and crew. Until now it seems.

A group of blogs, the majority I’m guessing are solely dedicated to Pixar, are out at the studios, again I’m guessing, for Cars 2 where about an hour ago a flurry of tweets came through announcing Dan Scanlon as the man Pixar want to direct their fourteenth film.

Normally Twitter is an unpredictable source, but the arrival of multiple tweets followed, crucially, by this tweet from Scanlon himself: Thanks Everybody! suggest that it’s a done deal.

Scanlon wrote and directed the Cars short Mater and the Ghostlight as well as the live action mockumentary Tracy. If confirmed this represents a huge step up for Scanlon in whose hands Pixar are placing one of their most beloved worlds.

Hopefully Pixar will confirm shortly, in the meantime here are a few of the tweets which started this ball rolling: 1 2 3