Angus MacLane & Galyn Susman Interview: Lightyear

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Pixar is back and flying audiences to infinity and beyond with Lightyear. The Toy Story spinoff serves as an origin story for the fictional character that inspired Tim Allen's fan-favorite toy. In the movie, he and his fellow Space Rangers find themselves marooned on an alien planet and try to find a way to escape before it's too late.

Ahead of the film's release, Screen Rant spoke exclusively with director Angus MacLane and producer Galyn Susman to discuss Lightyear, branching out the Toy Story canon, and the potential future of the series.

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Screen Rant: From what I've seen so far, Lightyear is a lot of fun. I'm really looking forward to getting to see the whole thing. One of the things that I love about the Toy Story franchise, having grown up with it, is that a lot of people seem to forget that there was already a Buzz Lightyear spinoff in the form of the animated TV show, with Patrick Warburton having played the character instead of Tim Allen. Since you've worked with the franchise for so long, what was it like keeping that show in mind while you were also developing this film?

Angus MacLane: Well, that show was developed when we were doing Toy Story 2, and I always imagined that it was like the Ewoks or the Droids to the Star Wars universe. I feel like when they were making Return of the Jedi, they weren't thinking about Droids and they weren't thinking about Ewoks. So, that's about as much as I thought about it.

Galyn Susman: As in not at all?

Angus MacLane: Not at all, because in my mind, that hasn't gotten produced [yet]. Say that exists in the universe of the Toy Story universe. There's that animated Pixar intro that, incidentally, I directed many years ago