On the one hand, cool. On the other hand, I really want Pixar to make as many original movies as they can. Sequels and prequels aren't as exciting.
This sucks so bad. So in the fiction of Toy Story, according to Disney, around 1995-1999, this real human astronaut was so popular that kids across the country went fucking wild for his toys. And his toy counterpart has no knowledge of any real space travel, but is imbued with these wild space fantasies about Zurg and hyperdrive.
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Pixar's Lightyear: Chris Evans to Star in Buzz Lightyear Origin Movie - IGN
This is an intergalactic emergency!
So in 1995, CGI was advanced enough to make a weird round headed spaceman in a blockbuster film?
That was when Lassater was running them. Lassater then went to Walt Disney Animation, then got exposed as a huge creep.
I think deciding that Buzz Lightyear was actually based on some real astronaut in the Toy Story universe and not a Saturday morning cartoon character like he's been presented as in every Toy Story movie is a weird pivot and will be hard to advertise to audiences.
Would love to see a space/inspirational astronaut movie from pixar. Something like first man.
Think of it like the movie based on the game based on the movie type of thing, I guess?
Yes, Pete made it clear that it is the movie the toy is based on. Won't be a toy story movie
That is a horrible pick for Buzz, dude has such a generic voice
this show was awesome
Pixar said fuck this shit.
for a cartoon character? Typically you'd want either a voice actor with range or someone with a unique voice
How do you know what his voice acting range would be?
They didn't just give him the job randomly.
He's an actor, not a VA as far as I know. Typically when celebrities do voices it's just their normal voice. He got the role because he's famous lol
Buzz Lightyear the toy is an action figure based on an astronaught. This is the movie about that astronaught.
In other words, imagine if this was a western animated feature about a cowboy called Woody Pride? No affiliation with the toy itself, it's more to do with the universe and story the toy was based on.
I kinda love this idea, it's definitely unique.
In the Toy Story universe, the character/toy of Buzz Lightyear is based on a real astronaut (sort of like their own Neil Armstrong) who was named Buzz Lightyear.
The movie will be the origin story of that "real" astronaut that eventually inspired the creation of the toy.
In the Toy Story universe, the character/toy of Buzz Lightyear is based on a real astronaut (sort of like their own Neil Armstrong) who was named Buzz Lightyear.
The movie will be the origin story of that "real" astronaut that eventually inspired the creation of the toy.
What exactly are you trying to say here? This movie isn't a movie from inside the Toy Story universe that we are watching, like something Andy would put on TV, it's the actual events of the human being in the Toy Story universe.This sucks so bad.So in the fiction of Toy Story, according to Disney, around 1995-1999, this real human astronaut was so popular that kids across the country went fucking wild for his toys. And his toy counterpart has no knowledge of any real space travel, but is imbued with these wild space fantasies about Zurg and hyperdrive.
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Pixar's Lightyear: Chris Evans to Star in Buzz Lightyear Origin Movie - IGN
This is an intergalactic emergency!
So in 1995, CGI was advanced enough to make a weird round headed spaceman in a blockbuster film?
In Toy Story there are humans and toys. Buzz Lightyear is a toy based on a human in the Toy Story world. As in, within the world of Toy Story, there was an actual human (like Andy and Sid) named Buzz Lightyear who was a space ranger, who then gained such popularity that he had a cartoon, video game, and toys based off him. This movie, "Lightyear", is the story of the actual human Buzz Lightyear going from rookie to Space Ranger and presumably will show us why he was so amazing that he had toys based off of him.
The only link to the other Toy Story movies this movie should have, is that two characters share the name "Buzz Lightyear". There won't be any Woody, or Hamm, or Rex, or any other toys, because it's a movie about a human.
There are plenty of actors that this isn't true for, though. Look at Nick Offerman in The Lego Movie or one of my favorites, Jordan Peele in Captain Underpants. We don't know that Chris won't be doing a voice, using just his normal voice, trying to imitate Tim Allen, pulling a Lego Batman and doing a gravely heroic version of his voice, etc.
They're not paying Chris Evans money for him to do another voice
So is this going to be a movie about a cartoon but otherwise close to normal astronaut, or do Zurg and Star Command exist in the Toy Story universe?