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Captain America is Buzz Lightyear in Pixar’s new origin story

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When Pete Docter, Chief Creative Officer at Pixar and genius behindĀ Soul, made a Toy Story-related announcement to the audience at the 2020 Investor Day, it’s quite possible that most didn’t hear what he had to say, thanks to the simultaneously dropped news of new Star Wars and Marvel happenings.

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But they should have at least heard two things: that the film gives the backstory of the beloved “infinity and beyond” test pilot-turned-space ranger AND that Chris Evans will be the voice of Buzz Lightyear in the film, not Tim Allen. And it will be Evans’s first ever Pixar project.

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BecauseĀ Lightyear is to be the “epic film” upon which the Buzz Lightyear toy line is based, Evans will be Buzz’s “real” voice–the actual voice of the test pilot. Tim Allen’s voice was used for the toy (although very much alive) version of Buzz Lightyear.

LightyearĀ was announced and will be released in summer 2022, but before you go thinking it’s Pixar’s answer to Toy Story 5, Docter says it is not.

Oh, thank goodness.

Some think LightyearĀ will be a 5th installment in theĀ Toy Story franchise. Ok, so it’s the 5th film made as part of the legacy of Woody and Buzz and friends. But it’s noĀ Toy Story 5. And it doesn’t sound too much like a fullĀ Toy Story prequel, either.

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Docter explains that when Buzz Lightyear was initially created forĀ Toy Story, that he was based on a character from an “epic, blockbuster film.” Docter says Pixar decided it was time to finally make that epic film, and it will be in the form of the upcomingĀ Lightyear.

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The film is being directed by Angus MacLane, who co-directedĀ Finding Dory.

At this time, the film is set for an exclusively theatrical debut on June 17, 2022. There’s no word yet on when fans will be able to catch the new flick on the Disney+ streaming platform.

 

About Becky Burkett

Becky's from the Lone Star State and has been writing since she was 10 and encountered her first Disney Park when she was 11. It was love at first Main Street Electrical Parade. Joy is blank lined journals, 0.7 mm pens, and all things Walt, Woody and Buzz, PIXAR, Imagineering, Sleeping Beauty (make it blue!), Disney Parks history and EPCOT. At Disney World, you'll find her croonin' with the birdies at the Enchanted Tiki Room or hangin' with Woody and the gang at Toy Story Land. If you can dream, you really can do it!