Why lightyear

Lightyear is an upcoming American 3D computer animated film produced by Pixar set to be released on June 17 , The film is a spin-off of the Toy Story franchise.

It will be Pixar's 26th animated feature. Lightyear is a sci-fi action-adventure and the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear voice of Chris Evans — the hero who inspired the toy. The film reveals how a young test pilot became the Space Ranger that we all know him to be today. So, here's the deal: Evans is not playing the toy version of Buzz; that honor still remains with Allen.

Instead, he is playing the heroic astronaut character emphasis on "character," aka a fictional person who inspired the creation of the Buzz Lightyear, all of which takes place within the world of "Toy Story. Director Angus MacLane echoed this sentiment while addressing what version is in his movie. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly recently, he noted, "Another way to get at it, it's a straightforward sci-fi action film about the Buzz Lightyear character.

Reserve today. Read article. Our tech progress Technology flows through the veins of all people working at Lightyear. Our progress. Thank you! Your submission has been received! But, whereas Monsters University was a prequel providing unneeded origin stories the main function of prequels and Incredibles 2 basically recycled the plot of the original while switching the focal point from Mr.

Incredible, this is a wholecloth new story derived from existing IP. And it is focusing its reverence around a character who, in the original Toy Story and its sequels—as well as Buzz Lightyear of Star Command —is an intentionally comical representation of characters from adventure serials and sci-fi adventure movies.

But regardless of that chance, or how cynically we can estimate the creative calculus, the impending existence of Lightyear feels very strange.

Sure, the Marvel movies are bland money printers and the Star Wars sequels were bad, but Pixar is at least widely interpreted as being original and successful. Lightyear looks rather unremarkable. And why are the biggest corporations, those which can easily recoup a loss and are unlikely to feel one anyway, unwilling to take a risk? Perhaps the problem is that they had a sci-fi adventure story they wanted to tell, and they were only going to be allowed to do that if they could tie it into the existing Buzz Lightyear character.

Maybe Docter and the rest of the creatives around Toy Story have really been mulling over these ideas for a long time waiting to tell this story.