Here’s Why Tim Allen Didn’t Voice Buzz in ‘Lightyear’ and Chris Evans was not a substitute.
Many fans grew up with the franchise, and animated characters are perplexed. Tim Allen was not called upon for his role as Buzz, given that Lightyear will debut on the 17th. When it was revealed that Chris Evans would be voicing Lightyear’s younger Buzz, many fans were confused. He’d been the voice of the Space Ranger since 1995, when he first expressed Toy Story, and he continued to voice the character in numerous films with the IP until 2019’s Toy Story 4 — that’s almost 25 years.
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The minor unrest stems from Allen’s long association with the character and the fact that, unlike a typical film (outside of reboots and Easter eggs), actors cannot keep the character’s image because of physical circumstances like age. No one had any reason to consider an entirely non-Tim Allen-voiced Buzz Lightyear. Galyn Susman, the producer of Lightyear, says: “Tim Allen is Buzz Lightyear the toy. We weren’t making a Toy Story movie. We’re making Buzz Lightyear’s movie.” This film is set in the Toy Story universe and stars Buzz Lightyear as a young cadet. This movie is supposed to be a “live-action” of Buzz Lightyear as a young cadet, rather than just a character from the franchise. Even Allen was forthright in acknowledging that he had not been “replaced” and that Lightyear is an entirely new motion picture.
According to Lightyear director Angus MacLane, Allen’s role was meant to be goofier than Lightyear’s, where there are many more dramatic sequences in which someone like Evans is ideally suited for the task. “Tim’s version of Buzz is a little goofier and is a little dumber, and so he is the comic relief. In this film, Buzz is the action hero. He’s serious and ambitious and funny, but not in a goofy way that would undercut the drama. Chris Evans has 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.”
Evans has been grateful to play such an important character, and he’s been nice to Buzz’s work. He also claims that no one can “touch his (Allen’s) performance.”
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