What went wrong with Lightyear? A Pixar director tries to explain it, and Toy Story fans end up blaming it – Movie News

The cartoon starring the Toy Story character didn’t do very well at the box office.

Lightyear hit theaters in June last year, and for a movie that has so much potential to reawaken Toy Story fans’ nostalgia — and which ran late in 2019 — the result just wasn’t as satisfying in numbers. The feature film cost $200 million to produce and made “only” $26.4 million over budget.

That’s a lot in the average person’s bank account, but when you think about the box office and audience reach, the production didn’t fare so well. More so because it’s a highly anticipated movie from Pixar, one of the biggest animation studios in cinema. Even the company’s creative director is aware of this and pondering why the film wasn’t well received.

In a recent interview with The Wrap, Creative Director Pete Docter stated that the low performance of Light year at the box office because of the impression audiences had prior to launch, even if promotional materials revealed another perspective. For him, my love Toy Story It is expected to be gripped with nostalgia, while director Angus McClain offered a more futuristic suggestion. “We demand a lot from the public.”

when they hear a fuss [Lightyear]They’re like, “Great! Where’s Mr. Potato Head, Woody and Rex?” And then we put them in a sci-fi movie and say, “What?” Even though they’d read the stuff in the press, it was way too far, both in concept and in the way it was. Drawing and photographing characters.

However, Docter believes that director MacLane delivered exactly what was in Pixar’s plans. “Angus took it seriously, honestly, and wanted to cast these characters as real characters. But Toy Story is much broader, so I think there was a disconnect between what people want/expect and what we give them.”

In the final film, Buzz Lightyear is abandoned on a hostile planet far beyond Earth, along with his captain and other team members. Trying to find his way home, the astronaut faces challenges when dealing with Zurg, who is surrounded by an army of robots arriving on the planet with a mysterious goal that doesn’t look right.

Chris Evans is the voice actor for Buzz, while the Brazilian voice was under the responsibility of Marcos Mion. The original cast also includes Keke Palmer, Peter Sohn, Taika Waititi, Dale Soules, James Brolin, Uzo Aduba, and Isiah Whitlock Jr.