As revealed by Pixar Chief Creative Officer Pete Docter at Disney’s Investor Day, Pixar’s big summer 2022 movie is called Lightyear, and it’s the epic origin story of Buzz Lightyear. The real Buzz Lightyear, that is — not the toy.
The idea, if we’re understanding this whole concept right, is that this is the movie that inspired the Buzz Lightyear toys that star in the Toy Story movies.
Just wait until they make Lightyear toys inspired by Lightyear that aren’t Buzz Lightyear.
When Pixar first made Toy Story, they always imagined that the Buzz Lightyear action figure was inspired by some massive blockbuster movie that existed in the Toy Story universe that audiences just never got to see.