Lightyear (Angus MacLane, June 17, 2022) Movie

Can definitely spot the Star Wars references/inspirations

 

Should be fun!

 

I can't believe we're getting a serious take on the Buzz Lightyear mythos of all things, but I think it's cool to see Pixar finally take their animation prowess and apply it to a more "mature" (heaviest of quotes) type of story telling.

Also, Angus MacLane I remember being super cool from all the DVD extras from Pixar movies, so I'm glad to see him direct.

 

This looks so damn cool I’m all the way in

 

Right behind the inevitable Slinky and Rex origin story

 

tbh if Lightyear is a hit I'd be 100% down for them to do actually do this (with Joan Cusack of course, no need to recast her like they did with Tim Allen)

 

If the base Jessie off a “real person” then they may recast like they did for buzz.

 

right but I'm saying I'd be cool if they didn't

 

Kaitlyn Dever asJessie
John Boyega as Woody
Tom Hanks as Pete

 

Wild to think about how the world of Toy Story is actually an ultra high-tech advanced science fiction society like the one being depicted in this movie about the person who served as the basis for the Buzz Lightyear toy, and yet they still live in regular old suburbs driving regular old cars and go to pizzerias with old school arcade games in them.

 

I mean pizza planet and the claw rule

 

I mean, let's face it, that will be our world eventually. The rich people will live in space stations and all of us will still be filling up our used cars at Mobil.

 

Nah we'll totally collapse as a species well before then

 

kinda took it that it was just a movie in their world. like Dune for ours.

 

no it's a real man

just let us have this it's funnier that way

 

If he isn’t in it I’m not watching.

 

lightyear ends when buzz's rocket achieves warp speed and breaks through the event horizon

alone and trapped in his craft, he is kept alive by advanced technology that removes his need to eat or breathe, but makes his body cold and unfeeling, like plastic.

days, weeks, years pass. eons pass. buzz witnesses the birth and death of universes, exploding suns and decaying planets.

finally buzz's craft reaches the edge of the universe and comes face to face with what can only be called God. the creator. Their name?

ANDY.

 

That sounds like a really dark place to go for a brick joke.

 

It's not. Lightyear is based on a sci-fi movie.

 

I'm not really sure what this means; if you mean the movie is based on a sci-fi movie or if the movie we're talking about is the movie that the toy is based from.

Regardless, according to this article the director says that this movie, despite being about the hero Buzz Lightyear, has no connection to the Toy Story movies in universe. So it's an idea of what Buzz's origin might look like, but it's not intended to connect directly to the universe, as in-universe fiction or otherwise.

https://screenrant.com/buzz-lightyear-movie-toy-story-connections-director-response/

 

As a Pixar executive explained it when the project was first announced last December: “When we created the very first ‘Toy Story,’ we designed Buzz Lightyear with the idea that he was a toy based on some very cool character from an epic blockbuster film.” "Well, all these years later, we decided to make that film"


So Toy Story is still a real universe with real pizza places and not some huge tech dystopia. Someone made a sci-fi movie where the hero is Lightyear. And this is that movie.