Chris Evans Shoots for the Stars in Buzzy ‘Lightyear’ Trailer

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On Tuesday, Pixar dropped the primary trailer for its, ahem, buzzy new movie Lightyear. Starring Chris Evans because the titular hero, the movie is a prequel of kinds about Toy Story’s beloved himbo astronaut, Buzz Lightyear.

Lightyear is directed by Angus MacLane, who has labored on the animation groups of such iconic Pixar movies as The Incredibles, Discovering Nemo, and two Toy Story sequels. Along with Evans, the brand new movie will function the voices of Keke Palmer, Taika Waititi, Uzo Aduba, and James Brolin.

The 2-minute teaser has a surprisingly cinematic and sensible sci-fi really feel, set dramatically to David Bowie’s “Starman.” Evans units the scene for an journey, saying in a voiceover, “After a full 12 months of being marooned on this planet, our first check flight is a go. Let’s get everybody house.” The following rescue mission guarantees high-speed rocket launches, encounters with big robots, and what seems to be a green-tentacled alien.

And since it’s a Pixar film, Buzz in fact has an cute speaking animal sidekick. Enter: Sox the robotic cat. Performed by Peter Sohn, an animator who has lent his voice to characters in Up and Ratatouille, Sox will most positively be the first supply of comedian reduction right here.

The trailer doesn't, nevertheless, demystify the confusion that erupted when Lightyear was first introduced about how this movie matches into the larger Toy Story universe. (Clearly, this Buzz Lightyear is a dwelling human man and never a toy.)

In December 2020, Evans retweeted a teaser for Lightyear with the caption, “I don’t even have the phrases.” He proceeded to promptly discover the phrases, following up with, “And simply to be clear, this isn’t Buzz Lightyear the toy. That is the origin story of the human Buzz Lightyear that the toy is predicated on.”

However his tweet didn’t clear issues up the best way Evans hoped it might. Everyone knows Buzz Lightyear is a fictional character voiced by Tim Allen, and never an actual individual. Is he saying that within the Toy Story universe, with Woody and Andy and Pizza Planet, they'd Buzz as a substitute of Neil Armstrong? Is that this a movie-inside-a-movie state of affairs the place Buzz shouldn't be meant to be an actual historic determine who truly lived, however reasonably a personality in a faux live-action film that they made toys primarily based on? And most urgent: When is all of this purported to be happening?

We’ll discover out when Lightyear hits theaters on June 17.

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