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Lightyear, Pixar’s new film, which somehow unfolds in the studio’s revered Toy Story universe, begins with a three-line scrolling text, essentially an omission by Hail Mary to explain the whole premise of the film: “In 1995, Andy got a toy. The toy is from his favorite movie. This is the movie. ” In fact, it’s a bit of a marvel of screenwriter’s ingenuity, apparently provided by producer Andrew Stanton in an attempt to remove the confusion stemming from the film’s premise, which has always been only partially clear about how “real” or “unreal” the film is. it is supposed to be in relation to the wider world of Toy Story.
Anyway! Still, Uproxx is still releasing an interview with the film’s director, Angus McLain, tonight, which blurs these intergalactic waters a bit. Led by writer Mike Ryan, according to Ryan, this is an incredibly silly article, despite McLain’s best efforts to point out that the whole premise was really just an excuse to make a “cool science fiction movie.”
Which is good and good, except that McLain immediately blew up all the arrogance of this little title by revealing that the Buzz doll played by Tim Allen in Toy Story is not based on the upcoming movie Lightyear; in fact, it is based on an animated film based on that film, with McLain making direct comparisons to the animated series The Real Ghostbusters. (Is this the Star Command animated series Buzz Lightyear that existed in our world? Ryan’s failure to answer that question is humiliating.) We don’t know why McLain was excited to point this out, but it forces him to admit that Tim Allen , who probably provided the voice of the animated Buzz and the accompanying dolls, while the Lightyear version was played by time-shifted Chris Evans (see: The Avengers: End of the Game) may qualify as Lorenzo Music from the Toy Story universe. Then they talk about Roda. This is a wild interview.
Tragically, no country is dealing with the question that is driving us crazy right now: In Leiter’s fiction, are toys also secretly conscious, watching their masters grow old and die with each passing year? How does the Sox robot cat fit into this grim synthetic cosmology? Are we real or just a dream that Buzz Lightyear ever had? We need to know!
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