Pixar's Lightyear, starring Chris Evans

It’s the origin story of Buzz Lightyear, the space ranger that the toy is based on.
But it’s not canon to the Toy Story movies, it’s it’s own film. Which seems to the bit that people are tripping up on.

Are you sure? Much like britesparc, I imagined it was a film within the Toy Story universe. You don't usually make toys based on real people. You might use their likeness, but it's usually based on a character they've played. So I assumed, they made a science fiction film, Andy was a fan, his mother bought him the toy. This would be the film, or a reboot take on the film that made young Andy a fan.

How people can't get to grips with this I have no idea.

Tim Allen has been cloned and brought back to life In the year 2156. He then becomes the astronaut he acted in the early 90s to become buzz lightyear. However in a series of wacky scenes he has to get to learn society's new ways such as using the three shells, battling Wesley snipes and having vr sex with the corpse of Sandra bullock

It is almost definitely going to have a Hanks/ Allen cameo then.

I’d imagine part of the reason is also they don’t want Buzz to sound like a 70 year old man.

If you find the premise of this film confusing please don't play Kingdom Hearts 3, where the protagonists end up inside the universe of a game that is fictional within the Toy Story universe that exists on a planet in the Kingdom Hearts universe

I do wonder though whether the people are Pixar actually like Tim Allen. They had Buzz voiced by a different actor for half of Toy Story 3, and he's really barely in Toy Story 4.

KH makes waaaaaaaaaaay more sense than this, because KH is consistently a meta-fictional thing and trans-universe and so on. You just accept that there's this universe where both FF and Disney characters exist, and nuts as that seemed back in the day, it's plain sailing from there.

Whereas this is more confusingly positioned, at least currently. The natural, logical assumption would be that it's simply "a movie which exists in the Toy Story universe". It's not the first time we've come across that kind of meta-fiction. Stories within stories have existed for at the very least hundreds of years. That this isn't "the true story of Buzz Lightyear", it's "the origin movie for the Buzz Lightyear character".

But the weirdly-phrased marketing and so on makes it seem almost like it's not intended to be meta-fiction, like it's not a movie from the Toy Story universe, but an entirely separate use of the same character, or even more strangely, it might be something that really happened in the Toy Story universe.

I suspect it'll get cleared up eventually and I think it's most likely that the authorial intent is that it's a movie from the Toy Story universe.

Of course it could be even stranger still - it could be the genuinely true story of Buzz Lightyear, from a separate reality from the Toy Story universe, which somehow (via dreams/vision/whatever) inspired the toy-designer within the Toy Story universe.

So this is currently a more bizarrely-position bit of fiction than KH. Disney has always done a lot of unexplained metafiction though and doesn't give two sods about continuity outside of Star Wars/Marvel, so we also might never know.

Re: Tim Allen I suspect there are two things going on - one, as britesparc pointed out, they've already used him a lot less, and people have commented that he's been not great to work with for the last decade or so, separately, and two, he's an IP risk, because he's increasingly the sort of person who might say something damn silly, whereas Evans is a professional.

This is the film that spawned the toy. Or this is a film made about the toy. Either works and it's really not the mind blowingly crazy concept that some people seem to think it is.

I wish it was.

I'm not sure who's taking the piss any more. It's about the real human in the Toy Story universe that the Buzz Lightyear toys were based on. That's it. Anyone else getting the premise of 2022 children's film Lightyear wrong will be banned.

According to the director it's supposed to be the film that the toy was based on - I think the quote was "the film Andy saw that made him want a Buzz Lightyear toy". So I guess that's that cleared up.

EXCEPT THAT this doesn't look like a film from 1994/95 (notwithstanding it's CGI, I mean how it's shot and its scale etc). So unless it's categorically stated otherwise in-fiction I'm going to continue to believe that this is a modern reboot/remake of the film or cartoon or TV show inspired by/the inspiration for the original 1995 Buzz Lightyear toy.

Also Chris Evans was only 14 in 1995.

It’s based on Buzz Aldrin before he became a real person but after he was a plastic toy.

Wonder if they'll do one on the real life inspiration for Mr Potato Head, and the sordid sexual abuse scandal.