I didn’t stop smiling through the ENTIRE pitch. I can say 2 things with absolute confidence: 1. I needed to know how this character was different and why this story was worth telling. “I didn’t know what that meant, since Tim Allen is Buzz Lightyear, and no one could ever touch his performance. All they said was ‘Buzz Lightyear,'” he wrote.

My team could barely contain their excitement when they told me that Pixar had a pitch for me. I’ve been a massive fan of their films since the very beginning. “Working with Pixar is a dream come true. In a December 2020 Instagram post, Evans spoke to why he joined the project and how it won’t “step on” Allen’s iteration. Courtesy of Disney/PixarĮvans is notably voicing Buzz, which caught fans’ attention as Allen had been the leading voice of the character since the first Toy Story movie in 1995. Disney and Pixar’s Lightyear is an all-new, original feature film that presents the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear - the hero who inspired the toy - introducing the legendary Space Ranger who would win generations of fans.

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