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. The Real Reason LIGHTYEAR Cast Chris Evans Over Tim Allen

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