Buzz Lightyear is headed again to space.
Disney and Pixar simply launched the primary teaser trailer for a brand new origin story of Buzz Lightyear, the enduring Space Ranger from the “Toy Story” movie franchise and it is filled with gorgeous space motion.
“To infinity and … 🚀 Experience the origin story of a Space Ranger in Disney and Pixar’s #Lightyear, in theaters Summer 2022,” Pixar wrote because it unveiled the trailer on Twitter and YouTube at this time. The movie will launch into theaters on June 17, 2022.
The trailer, set to a stirring soundtrack of “Starman” by David Bowie, begins off with a youthful Buzz Lightyear (voiced by Chris Evans) suiting up in a spacesuit very completely different from the winged inexperienced and purple onerous swimsuit we noticed within the “Toy Story” movies. He then launches into space in a glossy space aircraft that seems to whip round a star.
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“The sci-fi action-adventure presents the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear—the hero who inspired the toy—introducing the legendary Space Ranger who would win generations of fans,” Pixar wrote. The movie is directed by Angus McLane (“Finding Dory,” “Toy Story of Terror”) and and produced by Galyn Susman.
The “Lightyear” trailer reveals Buzz Lightyear as an astronaut, not a toy. It contains gorgeous scenes of spaceships, an unlimited spaceport and a touching unveiling of Lightyears’ Space Ranger spacesuit. He additionally seems to crew up with an lovely cat that simply could be a robotic (it says “beep, boop” and spins its head round) and a feminine companion who fits up in a Space Ranger swimsuit of her personal by the trailer’s finish.
All in all, the trailer gives a tantalizing glimpse of what “Lightyear” will deliver to Buzz Lightyear’s legacy.
It’s value a point out to say that Buzz Lightyear the toy is not any stranger to space.
NASA launched a Buzz Lightyear motion determine to the International Space Station in May 2008 on the space shuttle Discovery. It was returned to Earth in August 2009 and now is on display as a real-life space artifact on the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. in 2012.
Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, the astronaut Buzz Lightyear is modeled after, even recorded a video to “train” the Buzz Lightyear action figure for spaceflight.
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