Chris Evans just bagged his 3rd Superhero role! Who is he going to play?
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— Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) December 11, 2020
After playing The Human Torch and Captain America, Chris Evans will play another Disney Property hero.
Chris Evan just announced on his Twitter and Instagram account that he will be Playing Buzz Lightyear. Sure it will be a lot of pressure because Tim Allen made this character iconic. He won’t be replacing Tim Allen on the Toy Story series if there will be a sequel. This movie will be set in a different Universe. He will not be playing the action figure from the Toy Story series but the Super hero the toy is based on instead. The movie will be simply titled “Lightyear”. In the lore of Toy Story Buzz Lightyear is a popular children’s show about a space faring superhero. It will be the origin story of the character that made Andy want to have buy a toy of. I hope if this is successful Woody will have his own movie too.
During the 2000s there was a 2d animated Buzz Lightyear tv series.It was titled Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. It even spawned a direct to video movie titled Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins. This series have only one season with 65 episodes and a loyal cult following. Some of the toys that appeared in the movies are characters on this show like the three eyed aliens and the villain Evil Emperor Zurg.
This is the 32 second teaser of the upcoming film that will be in Theaters on June 2021 but I am not sure if the pandemic will end next year. So I expect this to be in Disney Plus instead.
It is not announced if the upcoming film will be an adaptation of the 2000s tv series or it is going to be a new stand-alone story with its own lore.