I knew that the character was iconic enough that you needed someone with the gravitas and seriousness and the balance of comedy and drama for the actor was a very, very narrow window of actor that could do it. You need to kind of step back and rethink it a little bit. “It is so hard to make a character that is a side character to a main character. “I wanted somebody who was not going to be goofy, funny,” he continued. “And I never wanted someone that was going to imitate that character’s voice I wanted something to be different. “Because (Buzz’s) voice is so iconic, you run the risk of imitation,” MacLane explained. LIGHTYEAR is the origin story of the toy, and will feature Lightyear’s cinematic space adventure that later inspired the toys.ĭirector Angus MacLane said the decision to cast Evans over Tim Allen, who voiced Lightyear in TOY STORY, was to differentiate between human and toy. Pixar’s much anticipated LIGHTYEAR is due out later this summer with CAPTAIN AMERICA’s Chris Evans voicing popular astronaut made famous in the TOY STORY franchise.īuzz Lightyear in the TOY STORY movies is an action figure based on a famed astronaut. It's a wonderful story, it just doesn't seem to have any connection to the toy.The Real Reason LIGHTYEAR Cast Chris Evans Over Tim Allen This was done in 1997, it seemed to be a big adventure story and, as I see, it's not a big adventure story. When they said they were doing a live-action, that it would mean real humans, not an animated thing.'Īllen continued, 'Really, Hanks and I, well, there's really no Toy Story Buzz without Woody. This is a whole new team that really had nothing to do with the first movies and they're, as I said, I thought it was live-action. But the brass that did the first four movies is not. I said what a fun movie that would be and that was, we spoke about it all. 'Literally, the short answer is, I've stayed out of this because it has nothing to do - as I've said a long time ago, we talked about this many years ago, it came up in one of the sessions. Why didn't he reprise his role for Lightyear? The actor explained in an interview with Extra, published Thursday on YouTube.

Tim Allen voiced the toy version of Buzz in the four Toy Story movies, the latest being Toy Story 4 in 2019.

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