Disney Replaces Tim Allen with Chris Evans As Buzz Lightyear in New Movie

[Turd Fergusen]

Patricia Heaton was not cool with them telling Tim Allen to buzz off.

The “Everybody Loves Raymond” actress has put Disney on blast for replacing Allen with “Captain America” star Chris Evans in the new “Toy Story” spinoff “Lightyear.”

“Saw the trailer for Buzz Lightyear and all I can say is Disney/Pixar made a HUGE mistake in not casting my pal Tim Allen in the role that he originated, the role that he owns,” the 64-year-old sitcom star fumed on Tuesday in a viral Twitter thread with thousands of shares. “Tim IS Buzz! Why would they completely castrate this iconic, beloved character?”

Allen, 69, had memorably voiced the irrepressible wannabe astronaut in 1995’s original “Toy Story,” along with its sequels “Toy Story 2” and “Toy Story 3,” as well as countless other projects.

Needless to say, the Twitterati were quick to ridicule “The Middle” actress, with one detractor quipping, “a spoiler alert about the Buzz Lightyear castration scene would have been nice.”

“Hey Patricia! Totally agree, the castration scene in the movie felt unnecessary and gross in light of the casting choice,” mocked another. “Seeing Buzz’s genitals was arousing, but knowing they weren’t the penis and balls of the Tool Man himself really steamed me! It was incredibly hard to climax.”

Meanwhile, writer Wajahat Ali accused Heaton of promulgating “perpetual victimhood.”

“Tim Allen is a multi-millionaire with a Disney+ project in the works,” he wrote. “Life is very good for him. All shall be well.”

However, others pointed out that casting Allen wouldn’t have made sense canonically as “Lightyear” isn’t about Buzz Lightyear the toy, but rather the action hero that it was based on.

“Do people not pay attention?” fumed one film fan. “Tim Allen’s Buzz is the toy based off of a person. Chris Evan’s Buzz is the real person that inspired the toy. The movie is about Buzz Lightyear the Person, not Andy’s toy.”

“Lightyear” producer Galyn Susman has since confirmed that this discrepancy was the reason for casting Evans in the role. “We weren’t making a ‘Toy Story’ movie,” she said in a recent press conference. “We’re making Buzz Lightyear’s movie. And so first and foremost, we just needed a different person playing that Lightyear, separate from the toy.”

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Tim Allen’s ‘Lightyear’ legend has been ‘castrated,’ Patricia Heaton says

“Tim IS Buzz! Why would they completely castrate this iconic, beloved character?” the “Everybody Loves Raymond” actress wrote.

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[Symmachus]

I'm not going to watch this film. It seems like an overrated cash-cow, and I don't understand why Pixar has to create so much Buzz around this thing.

 

[Metalfan]

I'm not going to watch this film. It seems like an overrated cash-cow, and I don't understand why Pixar has to create so much Buzz around this thing.

Everything Disney touches is hot garbage.

 

[cubby]

What gets me is people talking about this movie as if the people in it are real. That seems to take all the fun out of it.

I love Star Trek, have since I was about 10yo, but this looking for easter eggs, microscopically examining every inch of the show, is it in canon, not in canon...just damn, it's just a TV show for goodness sake!

I have liked all the new shows except "Discovery", and I haven't seen the 'cartoon' ones (don't know what else to call them) But I just enjoy them, I don't do an autopsy on them.

 

[Turd Fergusen]

Why Disney passed on Tim Allen in ‘Lightyear’: He’s ‘dumber’ not ‘castrated’​

“Lightyear” producers are speaking out about why they passed on hiring Tim Allen for the new blockbuster Disney flick — amid whispers he was snubbed because of his conservative political beliefs.

But those involved in the “Lightyear” movie are now responding, saying the decision to exclude Allen was due to creative choices and was in no way connected to his politics.

“Tim Allen is Buzz Lightyear the toy,” “Lightyear” producer Galyn Susman stated, according to Yahoo. “We weren’t making a ‘Toy Story’ movie. We’re making Buzz Lightyear’s movie.”

Why Disney passed on Tim Allen in ‘Lightyear’: He’s ‘dumber’ not ‘castrated’

Tim Allen, 69, famously voiced the Buzz Lightyear action figure in all four “Toy Story” movies, and fans were surprised when it was announced the actor wouldn’t be involved in the…

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[Metalfan]

What gets me is people talking about this movie as if the people in it are real. That seems to take all the fun out of it.

I love Star Trek, have since I was about 10yo, but this looking for easter eggs, microscopically examining every inch of the show, is it in canon, not in canon...just damn, it's just a TV show for goodness sake!

I have liked all the new shows except "Discovery", and I haven't seen the 'cartoon' ones (don't know what else to call them) But I just enjoy them, I don't do an autopsy on them.

You think Captain Kirk is a stud don't you.

 

[cubby]

I thought he was a studly stud until I grew up and found out there was no such thing as a Captain KIrk anywhere, real or imagined.

 

[Satanica]

Disney has shot themselves in the foot, because the audience has come to identify Buzz with Tim Allen. These "woke" companies need to separate their personal beliefs from their products. Of course, I could always be giving the general pubic too much credit.

 

[BuffettGirl]

Personally - not sure why anyone cares too much right now. There are far greater things to be anxious about these days than an animated story. I don't trust Disney as far as I can throw them, Chris Evans bugs me and Tim Allen got screwed. But I get Disney's point too about the man vs. the toy situation. In the end it's all fake, so folks just need to find something more "real" to get all verklempt over!

 

[Alxprkrkrls]

Tim Allen’s Buzz Lightyear was the TOY version, chris Evans is playing the real space ranger Buzz. Different characters OBVIOUSLY

 

[Sejanus]

People take entertainment way the hell too seriously
Escapism is what it is nothing more nothing less.
You can either like it, or you can hate it but at the end of the day it comes down to one thing.
Who gives a flaming fart?

But for the record Star Trek Discovery is garbage.
There was a golden opportunity missed there when they could have had it in a completely different timeline to reboot and restart everything.
It should have been marketed as a Star Trek story not THE Star Trek.
That way you could do whatever you wanted with the characters and canon wouldn't matter.
The best explanation would be to treat it like the what-if series from marvel comics.
It would open storytelling wide and put every single character at risk.
Think about it...you could kill James t Kirk the first time he comes on screen!

 

[Turd Fergusen]

This movie is tanking really really hard by the way.

 

[Turd Fergusen]

Tom Hanks questions Chris Evans replacing Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear​

Tom Hanks does not understand why Disney opted to replace “Toy Story” voice actor Tim Allen with Chris Evans in “Lightyear.”

The new Pixar spinoff does not feature Hanks or Allen, who voiced Woody and Buzz Lightyear, respectively, in the franchise’s four films from 1995 to 2019.

Hanks — whose latest flick “Elvis” is also in cinemas now — was asked in a recent interview whether it was “strange to be in theaters opposite a Buzz Lightyear film.”

“How ’bout that? I actually wanted to go head-to-head with Tim Allen, and then they didn’t let Tim Allen do it. I don’t understand that,” the “Forrest Gump” star, 65, told CinemaBlend.

Tom Hanks questions Chris Evans replacing Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear

Hanks, whose movie “Elvis” is in theaters opposite “Lightyear,” said he “actually wanted to go head-to-head” with Allen at the box office.

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[Satanica]

Apparently, these woke Hollywood movie production companies are willing to lose big bucks as long as they can cast shade on conservatives. I suppose they don't think conservatives go to movie theaters.

 

[Turd Fergusen]

Go woke, go broke.

 

[Kelli]

Apparently, these woke Hollywood movie production companies are willing to lose big bucks as long as they can cast shade on conservatives. I suppose they don't think conservatives go to movie theaters.

They’re the ones that can actually afford movie tickets, popcorn, drinks & candy though. Poor business model…

 

[Turd Fergusen]

Well, well, well...

Tim Allen Poised To Return To ‘Toy Story’ Franchise After Disney/Pixar’s ‘Lightyear’ Lost Over $100 Million​

Tim Allen just spilled the tea — or rather, the toy box — about a fifth installment to the beloved Toy Story film series, per The Wrap.

On Tuesday’s night’s episode of The Tonight Show, host Jimmy Fallon asked Allen if the rumors of a Toy Story 5 were true, to which he replied that Disney CEO Bob Iger “said it was on.”

“They have reached out to Tom [Hanks] and I to reprise the roles,” he shared. “They’re not saying anything about it.”

While the first Toy Story film debuted in 1995, the most recent film, Toy Story 4, hit theaters in June 2019.

“You wonder if four [films] was too many, is five gonna be too much,” he pondered.

However, he noted that “the writer who’s doing it wrote one of the better ones.”

“And he said, ‘If I didn’t get this right, I wouldn’t do it,'” Allen recalled. “So it could be a very, very interesting way to reunite it.”

According to Entertainment Weekly, Iger announced plans for not only a Toy Story sequel, but also sequels to Frozen and Zootopia during a quarterly earnings call in February, deeming it “a great example of how we’re leaning into our unrivaled brands and franchises.”
While Allen’s Buzz Lightyear is a Pixar staple, the iconic character was voiced by Chris Evans in a Toy Story prequel outlining the space ranger’s origin story, Lightyear, which launched into theaters in June 2022 and made just north of $50.57 million in its opening weekend, per IMDb, on its way to losing over $100 million for the studio.

Lightyear director Angus MacLane justified this choice to Vanity Fair, explaining that Evans had “the gravitas and that movie-star quality that our character needed to separate him and the movie from Tim’s version of the toy in Toy Story.”

Allen told Extra that the film had “nothing to do” with his Buzz, and claimed “a whole new team that really [had] nothing to do with the first movies” was behind it.

Tim Allen Poised To Return To ‘Toy Story’ Franchise After Disney/Pixar’s ‘Lightyear’ Lost Over $100 Million

There will certainly be a lot of buzz around this news!

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[Symmachus]

"How about we make a film that's new and creative and interesting and original? A story that hasn't been made before, and one that will truly resonate with audiences years to come! What do you think, guys?"

"Uhhhh, yeah, you and I need to have a talk in the office. Right now."

[in the office]

"What did I do? What am I in here for?"

"You know that comment you said about us needing to be new and original and inventive or whatever. Yeah, that's inappropriate. We're a movie factory, not storytellers. And that's your last straw. You've tried too hard to be a maverick and a visionary, when you've been told multiple times that that is not allowed here. Therefore, you're..."