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Stay with me now: Pixar’s Lightyear is an origin story for a fictional toy
When I woke up today, I expected my kitchen to be a mess because I binged The Morning Show instead of cleaning it last night. Despite it already being Wednesday, I was also prepared to be overwhelmed by the truckload of tasks I have yet to cross off my to-do list this week. What I was not ready for was Pixar releasing a trailer for a Buzz Lightyear movie that would make the internet stop in its tracks and collectively gasp, “What the fuck?”
Disney announced Lightyear last December, but I hadn’t actually spent any time thinking about it until the first trailer dropped this morning. It’s gritty and existential, with vibes somewhere between Interstellar and Ad Astra, backed by David Bowie’s “Starman.” It could almost be an entirely new sci-fi movie, except for Buzz’s green and purple space suit teased at the very end. It’s an origin story within an origin story, not for an action figure, but for the character who inspired it. In real life. But in a movie, which is fake. Truly we live in cursed times.
The confusion all stemmed from a now infamous December 2020 tweet by Chris Evans, who voices Buzz in the new movie. “This is the origin story of the human Buzz Lightyear that the toy is based on,” he wrote. That could have meant anything at the time. In the context of today’s trailer, people took it to mean that Toy Story took place in a futuristic sci-fi world where Earth’s heroes included a man fighting aliens in space.
Read the full article on Kotaku
