Tim Allen, the voice of Buzz Lightyear, recently shared what he would like to see the character get up to in Toy Story 5.
Tim Allen in THE SANTA CLAUSES – “Episode 201” (Disney/James Clark)
Allen shared his personal and off the cuff thoughts in an interview with The Movie Dweeb on YouTube while promoting his Disney+ show The Santa Clauses.
He said, “This is really off the cuff. It made me very emotional yesterday ’cause a guy — I went to get coffee at a very small little coffee bar that he grinds his own coffee — asked me the same question, just yesterday. And I said — and I don’t know this is where the story’s going — but what if the whole story was through Andy is an adult, has children, and they just happen to be online. And the kid goes, ‘Have you ever seen this toy?’ And Andy sees that Buzz has got a hand missing and they’re selling these vintage toys.”
“And Andy goes and gathers all the toys up and he has to go out and find each one of them and put them back together, bring them back to his house and starts the whole thing over again with his son,” Allen said. “And I said, ‘What a wonderful idea is that he brings it. It’s all through Andy’s eyes because we made his life and now he’s returning that favor.'”
Tim Allen voices Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story (1995), Pixar
Toy Story 5 was announced back in February by The Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger during the company’s Q1 earnings call.
He said, “Today I’m so pleased to announce that we have sequels in the works from our animation studios to some of our most popular franchises, Toy Story, Frozen, and Zootopia.”
Iger added, “We’ll have more to share about these productions soon, but this is a great example of how we’re leaning into our unrivaled brands and franchises.”
Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear flies through the sky carrying Tom Hank as Woody in Toy Story (1995), Pixar
Allen announced he was returning to voice Buzz Lightyear soon after Iger’s announcement writing on X, “See ya soon Woody, you are a sad strange little man and you have my pity. And off we go to a number 5! To infinity and beyond!”
See ya soon Woody, you are a sad strange little man and you have my pity. And off we go to a number 5! To infinity and beyond! pic.twitter.com/bwRzE487Vi
— Tim Allen (@ofctimallen) February 9, 2023
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In May, Allen informed The Daily Mail the film had been in the works for awhile.
He told the outlet, “They came up with that. I think it’s getting close and I said unless it could have been done really well I know that the crew didn’t want to do it. So none of us could mention any of this. Even when all the ancillary Buzz or Lightyear movie was coming out, this was all in play. So it was kind of peculiar. That’s all.”
Tim Allen and Elizabeth Mitchell in THE SANTA CLAUSES – “Episode 204” (Disney/James Clark)
Allen previously criticized the Lightyear film, which turned into a box office loser and saw Chris Evans take over the voice acting for Buzz Lightyear.
He told Extra, “The short answer is I’ve stayed out of this because it has nothing to do as I’ve said a long time ago. We talked about this many years ago and it came up in one of the sessions. I said, ‘What a fun movie that would be.’ And that was what we spoke about it.”
He continued, “But the brass that did the first four movies is not — this is a whole new team that really had nothing to do with the first movies and they’re as I said, I thought it was a live-action when they said were doing a live-action that’s what I thought. It would mean real humans, not an animated thing.”
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Allen added, “There’s really no Toy Story Buzz without Woody. I’m not sure what the idea — I’m a plot guy and this was done in 1997 it would seem to be a big adventure story and I see it’s not a big adventure story. It’s a wonderful story. It just doesn’t seem to have any connections to the toy and that’s what, it’s a little, it’s a little, I don’t know…”
“It has no relationship to Buzz…it’s just no connection. I wish there was a better connection to it,” he asserted.
TRIAL AND ERROR – After being marooned on a hostile planet, Buzz Lightyear (voice of Chris Evans) attempts multiple test flights in an effort to recreate the complicated fuel required to reach hyperspeed so he and the whole crew can return to Earth. Directed by Angus MacLane (co-director “Finding Dory”) and produced by Galyn Susman (“Toy Story That Time Forgot”), Disney and Pixar’s “Lightyear” opens in U.S. theaters on June 17, 2022. © 2021 Disney/Pixar. All Rights Reserved.
He would also criticize the film while speaking with Daily Mail, “They were two completely different movies. And Chris did a great job doing an ancillary part. It was very confusing to all of us on the Toy Story movie side, which was real?”
“I’m a script guy, so if Buzz is real, then Chris’s version of it was, as an actor doing it, real confusing to me,” he said.
EVIL EMPEROR – Disney and Pixar’s “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 story, which follows the legendary Space Ranger on an intergalactic adventure, features none other than Zurg—a seemingly invincible adversary of Buzz who would go on to inspire his own toy. Featuring the voices of Uzo Aduba, James Brolin, Mary McDonald-Lewis, Keke Palmer, Efren Ramirez, Peter Sohn, Dale Soules, Taika Waititi and Isiah Whitlock Jr., “Lightyear” releases June 17, 2022. © 2022 Disney/Pixar. All Rights Reserved.
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