“It’s a wonderful story.
It just doesn’t seem to have any connection to the toy,” he said.
Tim Allenhas weighed into the muck that is the discourse surroundingPixar’sLightyear.
Tim Allen breaks his silence on Pixar’s ‘Lightyear’ and Chris Evans taking over the Buzz role.FOX Image Collection via Getty Images; Disney/Pixar
There’s a reason he hasn’t spoken about this publicly before.
Allen voiced Buzz Lightyear, the toy, in Pixar’sToy Storyfranchise, most recently in 2019’sToy Story 4.
InLightyear, Evans instead voices Buzz, the fictional movie character that inspired the Buzz toy.
(Angus MacLane, an animator onToy Story 2and 3, directedLightyear.)
The actor remembered talking years earlier with Pixar about what the movie that inspired Buzz might look like.
He also said he thought the studio was making a live-actionLightyearmovie instead of an animated one.
“It’s a wonderful story,” Allen said ofLightyear.
“It just doesn’t seem to have any connection to the toy, and it’s a little…
I don’t know.
It just has no relationship to Buzz.
It’s just no connection.
I wish there was a better connection to this.”
“Tim IS Buzz!”
she wrote in mid June.
“Why would they completely castrate this iconic, beloved character?”
Heaton, admittedly, had only see trailers at the time and not the actual movie.
Why remove the one element that makes us want to see it?
Evans had nothing but respect for Allen’s performance as Buzz inToy Story.
“Obviously I was thrilled to be working for Pixar.
I’ve been a die-hard Pixar fan forever.
But, yeah, obviously it was intimidating and daunting.”
So you have to honor that when you’re making your choices."
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