“My team could barely contain their excitement when they told me that Pixar had a pitch for me,” he recalls. He starts off by addressing the elephant in the room – that this role typically belongs to Tim Allen. And that’s why we went with Chris.” Chris Evans on Kickstarting a New Era for Buzz Lightyearīack in December of 2020, Chris Evans took to Instagram to announce that he’d be tackling the role of Buzz in Lightyear. Technically he’s a bit smarter because he’s not comic relief.
This time, he said, Lightyear is “a little more well-rounded. And so first and foremost, we just needed a different person playing that Lightyear, separate from the toy.”ĭirector Angus MacLane had an additional explanation as to why Buzz needed to be played by Evans, specifically. “Tim Allen is Buzz Lightyear the toy,” she said. In a recent press conference, Lightyear producer Galyn Susman explained that a lot of thought had gone into the casting of Evans. In this film, Buzz is tasked with finding his way home from a strange planet lightyears away (get it?), while also attempting to stave off a dangerous extraterrestrial threat. What is Lightyear?ĭirected by Angus MacLane ( Finding Dory), Lightyear follows a young version of the Buzz Lightyear that Toy Story’s beloved toy is based on. However, when it came to Buzz’s newest solo film, Disney had a wildly different idea for his casting. Since then, he’s voiced the big-hearted, adventurous space-ranger-figurine in a whopping total of 17 different projects - from video games like Toy Story Racer (2001), to shorts like Toy Story Toons: Partysaurus Rex, and sequels galore. Tim Allen and Buzz Lightyear Go Way BackĪllen first played Buzz almost thirty years ago when the first Toy Story film came out. Understandably, it also came as a bit of a shock when news broke that Allen wouldn’t be voicing Buzz this time around - that the character would be played by Chris Evans, instead. So when Pixar and Disney announced that Buzz was getting his own feature film, entitled simply Lightyear, fans were naturally overjoyed. Voiced by Tim Allen, Buzz is goofy, optimistic, relatable, and undeniably lovable. It’s hard to think of an animated character that is more iconic than Toy Story’s Buzz Lightyear.
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