The Toy Story character – but not, as it turns out – is getting his own movie. Only
Chris Evans is voicing him, not Tim Allen. And he’s not a toy. What’s going on?
Toy Story has become one of those
Hollywood franchises that will never die, like
Star Wars, Batman or
James Bond. Some of us wondered if stretching out the much-cherished adventures of Buzz, Woody and the gang to a fourth instalment in 2019 was pushing it too far, only to be proved completely wrong by the geniuses at Pixar all over again.
But now there’s Lightyear, the latest
trailer for which dropped this week. And we find ourselves peering at it like the crew of the Nostromo inspecting Alien eggs. What is this strange concoction that appears to be a Toy Story movie of sorts, but one stretched out of all natural proportions, as if the movie screen has been dumped in a hall of mirrors?