Lightyear Pitch Meeting
Warning! Spoilers Ahead for Lightyear.
Screen Rant's Pitch Meeting series continues to poke fun at newly released movies with its latest entry on Lightyear. Lightyear is the spinoff movie of the Toy Story franchise, which gives the background of Andy's beloved toy space ranger played by Tim Allen in the four original films. Helmed by director Angus MacLane and premiering in June 2022, it is the first Pixar movie to receive a worldwide release since Onward in March 2020. Lightyear has somewhat underperformed box office expectations, making $101 million worldwide against its $200 million budget.
Lightyear uses a framing device to explain that this is the movie Andy saw in 1995, which inspired the Buzz Lightyear toy line. In the movie itself, Star Command is exploring a habitable planet, T'Kani Prime, but discovers that hostile lifeforms live there. Buzz, played by Chris Evans in Lightyear, damages their ship in the escape effort, forcing the crew to settle on the planet, and a year later, a colony has formed that finally has the infrastructure to make the needed repairs. Buzz, wanting to fix his mistake, volunteers to test the hyperspace fuel. The test takes four minutes for him, but four years pass on the planet thanks to time dilation. The rest of the movie sees Buzz continuing tests as the planet and his companions age around him.
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Now, following the somewhat mediocre box-office reception of Lightyear, Ryan George's writer and Pixar executive play out the original pitch of the movie in the newest Pitch Meeting episode. Among other things, George highlights the confusing framing premise, the mismatched tones of this serious supposed 90s action movie and
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