Screenplay by: Jason Headley, Angus MacLane Story & Script Coordinator: Rebecca Banks Post-production Supervisor: Dana Mulligan Production Company: Pixar Animation StudiosĮxecutive Producers: Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter That’s the truth I wanted to build for Lightyear – nostalgia for the past while rapidly jumping into the future.’ ‘We all wonder what it would be like to go back in time, but instead we’re jumping forward in time. ‘They say you can’t live in the past, but what if you could?’ continues MacLane. There’s a rich history of character-out-of-time heroics: Captain America, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, to name a few. ‘I knew Buzz would have to face a big problem, and I liked the sci-fi element of time dilation. ‘I did a lot of research, breaking down the nature of genre thrillers,’ says MacLane. ‘I wanted to make something that felt true to those fun, big-budget popcorn films.’Ī sci-fi action-adventure and the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear, Lightyear follows the legendary Space Ranger on an intergalactic adventure.
Fast forward 21 years, and director Angus MacLane found himself asking: What movie inspired Andy to beg for a fancy toy with lasers, karate-chop action and aerodynamic space wings? ‘ Lightyear is the movie that Andy, his friends and probably most of the rest of the world saw,’ says MacLane. That story placed Buzz Lightyear – the toy in this case – centre stage as the brand-new, highly sought-after action figure that gives vintage pull-string Sheriff Woody a run for his money as Andy’s favourite. That’s what filmmakers pictured when creating the character for Pixar Animation Studios’ 1995 feature film Toy Story. They have flaws and fears – they’re utterly relatable, even as they soar to greatness.īuzz Lightyear is such a hero – in fact, he’s the kind of big-screen phenomenon that inspired a successful line of toys. And the best heroes – the ones who live on long after their films hit the big screen – are, at heart, human. Heroes overcome insurmountable obstacles to save the day. However, with the dastardly Zurg and his army on the horizon, will Buzz succeed? In the Toy Story universe, this is the film Andy watched that made him want to have his own space-age toy.Įvery cinephile loves a good hero – someone to admire, someone to root for. His repeated attempts to return home backfire, but he perseveres with help from his feline robot companion Sox and others. Young astronaut Buzz Lightyear is the member of a spaceship crew who are stranded on a planet 4.2 million light years from Earth.
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