“Buzz has a respect for authority and his immediate commander who he trusts and sees as super confident and someone he aspires to,” MacLane said. Yet there’s a big difference between the two: Cap is a team player and Buzz is a loner. In casting Evans, he leveraged the actor’s heroic persona as Captain America but with Buzz’s corny sense of humor. This felt like a natural fit for Buzz as a hero out of time, a well-worn story in the science fiction drama.”Īside from “Star Wars,” the director drew on other sci-fi movies he admired as a kid (including “Star Trek” and “Aliens”), distilling all of the tropes into a hero’s journey for Buzz.
And because of that, he’s separating himself from society and all of his loved ones. We pictured a story where Buzz would be traveling rapidly through time, and all because of a job. “So that’s the truth I wanted to build for ‘Lightyear.’ Nostalgia for the past while rapidly jumping into the future. The studio is a bit of a time machine,” he said. “Memories of successes and triumphs, of joys and setbacks. In his case, it was the strange sense of disorientation of working on an animated feature at Pixar for four years, and realizing how time had passed him by outside the studio. That led to MacLane wanting to find a personal connection to help fuel the story. In ‘Toy Story 2,’ Buzz thinks he’s the Buzz Lightyear, the other Buzz Lightyear disagrees.” “Lightyear” Disney/Pixar “In ‘Toy Story,’ Buzz thinks he’s a Space Ranger, Woody disagrees. Or to put it another way, Buzz always has a disagreement over the nature of reality,” he said. “Buzz is a character who is at odds with his surroundings. In addition to co-directing “Finding Dory,” MacLane has two decades of experience with “Toy Story”: He served as an animator on the first two sequels, and wrote and helmed the franchise’s expansion into original TV specials, “Toy Story of Terror!” But it wasn’t until he contemplated Buzz for “Lightyear” that he figured out his protagonist’s unique character trait. I always wondered if the backstory of his fighting Emperor Zurg as this space opera could actually be made into a film.” “But there was something hilarious to me about a character who’s absolutely convinced that they’re correct and everyone else was 100 percent wrong, and inadvertently solved whatever problem through their own delusion. “I was always drawn to Buzz physically as being a cool toy,” MacLane said. Netflix’s ‘This World Can’t Tear Me Down’ Is a Hyper Animated Roadmap Through Friendship and Fascism
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