Tom Hanks Doesn’t Understand Why Lightyear Didn’t Bring Back Tim Allen
Elvis star Tom Hanks was wanting to take on his Toy Story co-star Tim Allen in the cinema world and regretted how his job was reworked for Lightyear.
We could have seen a recent box office dual between the two stars of the Toy Story series if not for a controversial recasting at the center of Lightyear. In the spinoff, Chris Evans voices a new incarnation of Buzz Lightyear, the space hero young Andy idolizes as a child in the Toy Story films. The story is presented as a movie that exists within the Toy Story universe that spawned the toy line that the action figure version of Buzz Lightyear is a part of.
Technically, the Buzz we meet in Lightyear is not the same version of the character, and that’s perhaps the main reason why Tim Allen did not return to voice the role. In any case, the decision to go with a new actor has generated a lot of controversy, and it’s possibly one of the reasons why many fans chose to skip seeing Lightyear in theaters, turning the film into a box office bomb. Whatever the reason is for the recasting, it seems to be a gamble that did not quite pay off.
As far as concerns him, Tom Hanks, who played the Woody to Allen’s Buzz Lightyear in the Toy Story series, would have liked to see no reworking occur. Talking with Cinema Blend, Hanks talked about how Lightyear and Elvis are both playing in theaters, having Hanks rivaling a Toy Story side project. Hanks specifies how he needed to rival Allen in the cinematic world, yet that didn’t occur as the job was reevaluated, a choice he doesn’t have the foggiest idea. Yet, what’s generally significant, says Hanks, is that individuals are returning to the theater to see motion pictures.