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windleopard from Nigeria Since: Nov, 2014 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#1: Dec 11th 2020 at 1:07:49 AM

Chris Evans Will Play the Original Buzz Lightyear in a New Pixar Adventure

Lightyear, announced at today’s Disney Investor Day panel, won’t be a Toy Story movie, and doesn’t seem to feature the Buzz toy voiced by Tim Allen in the quadrilogy. It is, as Pixar’s Chief Creative Officer Pete Docter explained, an original sci-fi/action movie that tells the story of the actual Buzz, the young test pilot who finds himself catapulted into the stars to become a one-day-legendary space ranger.

Oh, and Buzz is voiced by Steve Rogers himself, Chris Evans. America’s ass has become America’s chin, ladies and gents.

Lightyear is expected to release June 17, 2022.

BigK1337 Since: Jun, 2012
#2: Dec 11th 2020 at 1:18:37 AM

What, no Patrick Warburten? This will potentially piss off the Buzz Lightyear of Star Command fans.

jessicadicicco610 Since: Oct, 2018 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#3: Dec 11th 2020 at 1:41:45 AM

Then again, you never really see theatrical movies (Disney or otherwise) build off of what tv spinoffs established. As such, I'm not surprised that this is more of its own thing.

Zarius Since: Nov, 2012
#4: Dec 11th 2020 at 4:25:14 AM

Watch every Toy Story movie for the next thousand years be about the 'real' versions of each toy.

I can see a lot of Bowie's Space Oddity and 2001 inspiring this one.

Edited by Zarius on Dec 11th 2020 at 4:27:15 AM

TargetmasterJoe from Velocitron Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
#6: Dec 11th 2020 at 8:01:43 AM

[up] Nah, man. That's from when he was already famous.

THIS will be about HOW he got famous.

In any case, Chris Evans is crazy excited about it. (Slightly edited by myself.)

Working with Pixar is a dream come true. I've been a massive fan of their films since the very beginning. My team could barely contain their excitement when they told me that Pixar had a pitch for me. All they said was 'Buzz Lightyear'. I didn't know what that meant, since Tim Allen is Buzz Lightyear, and no one could ever touch his performance. I needed to know how this character was different and why this story was worth telling. I can say 2 things with absolute confidence:

1. I didn't stop smiling through the ENTIRE pitch. Ear to ear.

2. Everyone can rest easy. And get very excited.

Trust me when I say that they REALLY know what they're doing over there. This one is gonna [be] special, and it doesn't step on a single thing. I can't even put my excitement into words. I smile every time I think about it. #LIGHTYEAR

Cortez from Parts Unknown (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#7: Dec 11th 2020 at 8:37:32 AM

So to be clear, it's Buzz Lightyear the Superhero and not the Buzz Lightyear the toy?

Like in the Buzz Lightyear cartoon from years ago?

TargetmasterJoe from Velocitron Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
#8: Dec 11th 2020 at 8:46:22 AM

[up] It's looking like that, yes.

GamerSlyRatchet Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
#9: Dec 11th 2020 at 3:14:29 PM

I've been hearing that this Buzz is supposed to be an actual astronaut that existed in Andy's universe and that the toyline (and Star Command) was based on a fictionalized version of him.

Latest blog update (November 5th, 2022).
J79 Since: Jan, 2015
#10: Dec 11th 2020 at 5:42:06 PM

But when do we get our movie about the "real" green army men?

Beatman1 Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
#11: Dec 11th 2020 at 5:49:54 PM

[up]Sadly R. Lee Ermey is no longer with us to do that voicework.

Edited by Beatman1 on Dec 11th 2020 at 5:50:11 AM

TargetmasterJoe from Velocitron Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
#12: Dec 11th 2020 at 8:09:59 PM

I wonder how many Toy Story-related mythology gags should we expect from this movie, if any at all.

As much as I love mythology gags, there might be such thing as too many? I think some guys complained that Monsters University had too many pointed at Monsters, Inc.?

Plus, the back of my mind REALLY wants Hamm to appear as an intergalactic space pig-guy, but I'm worried that people will think it's too similar to Pey'j from Beyond Good & Evil.

Krory Since: Aug, 2012
#13: Dec 11th 2020 at 8:13:28 PM

I honestly just want them to find a way to work in Booster, XR, and Mira. That cartoon is my favorite thing in the franchise.

Tuckerscreator (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#14: Dec 11th 2020 at 9:04:43 PM

Seriously, eight year-old me thought Mira was even cooler than Buzz. grin

TargetmasterJoe from Velocitron Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
#15: Dec 12th 2020 at 1:41:40 PM

Argh, it drives me nuts how there's a lot of ways this movie could go down. And we have mixed messages out the wazoo!

Let's see. We have:

  • Scenario 1: Based on what Evans has said regarding this movie being about "the real Buzz," that could mean in the world of Toy Story, there was a real astronaut named Buzz and the movie is about how his career inspired the Buzz Lightyear franchise that Buzz the Toy originated from. The thing is, we have never thought of the possibility of Buzz being a real person. Heck, the Buzz commercial from the first Toy Story explicitly calls him "the world's greatest superhero." Plus, Pixar movies always have a sense of being fantastical, so this scenario sounds a lot more grounded than the usual Pixar movie, at least on paper.
  • Scenario 2: Or this really is more fantastical and it could go all Galaxy Quest meets The Martian meets Iron Man 1. An astronaut who works with real-life spacefaring logic gets stranded on an alien planet and is pushed into saving the galaxy, perhaps from a certain evil emperor while forging armor that lets him shoot lasers and fly?
  • Scenario 3: There WAS a real astronaut named Buzz Lightyear, it DID inspire the Buzz Lightyear franchise, but as Real!Buzz grows weary of the fame and fortune, he DOES get thrust into action on an alien planet.

(I should say for the record that I'm more than a little excited about what direction this movie will go. I feel like Charlie when he's trying to uncover the secret of "Pepe Silvia.")

Snicka Since: Jun, 2011
#16: Dec 12th 2020 at 2:25:50 PM

I think they'll take the Scenario 2 route. That is, it's an origin story for the Buzz Lightyear character for the Show Within a Show the toy in the Toy Story universe is based on.

Also, now that you brought up Galaxy Quest: Tim Allen both starred in that movie and played Buzz in Toy Story. Is that a coincidence or a Casting Gag?

Edited by Snicka on Dec 12th 2020 at 11:27:53 AM

TargetmasterJoe from Velocitron Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
#17: Dec 12th 2020 at 3:07:27 PM

 Is that a coincidence or a Casting Gag?

Maybe a casting gag? Not sure.

I was meaning to point out how Tim Allen was in both Toy Story and Galaxy Quest, but I guess it got tuned out...

Watch Chris Evans be in a Galaxy Quest reboot a few years after Lightyear comes out.

(By the way, typing out those scenarios was a lot tougher than I thought. But hell yeah to me wanting to see Real!Buzz be some weird fusion of Mark Watney (the protagonist in The Martian) and Builds-A-Suit-Of-Armor-With-Scraps-In-A-Cave!Tony Stark.)

Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Dec 12th 2020 at 3:12:04 AM

Snicka Since: Jun, 2011
#18: Dec 12th 2020 at 10:05:39 PM

[up]Note that the Film.Galaxy Quest page mentions Sigourney Weaver under Casting Gag (due to her role in Alien); but not Tim Allen.

AHI-3000 Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
#19: Dec 24th 2020 at 12:20:57 PM

I guess that the next step would be for Pixar to make a movie about the "real" Sheriff Woody.

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#20: Dec 24th 2020 at 12:41:08 PM

A woody 's roadhouse Disney Plus series would be pretty lit.

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Snicka Since: Jun, 2011
#21: Dec 24th 2020 at 1:06:47 PM

"Woody's Roundup: The Series"?

AmazingSpiderHam Since: Sep, 2020
#22: Dec 24th 2020 at 4:33:31 PM

Margot Robbie is doing a Barbie movie (although IIRC that one isn't connected with Disney) so there's that too.

Snicka Since: Jun, 2011
#23: Dec 25th 2020 at 1:51:39 AM

[up]An animated or a live action one? Margot Robbie would make a good live action Barbie.

TargetmasterJoe from Velocitron Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
#24: Dec 25th 2020 at 4:28:41 AM

[up]Live-action, I believe.

Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Dec 25th 2020 at 4:28:49 AM

jessicadicicco610 Since: Oct, 2018 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#25: Oct 27th 2021 at 5:49:23 AM

Here's the teaser trailer for Lightyear.


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