Tom Hanks speaks about Chris Evans being cast in Lightyear instead of Tim Allen

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Chris Evans recently lent his voice for Pixar's new film Lightyear, which revolved around the character of Buzz Lightyear, the movie character which inspired the Toy Story version of Buzz.

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In the Toy Story franchise, Buzz has been voiced by Tim Allen and ever since the release of Lightyear, there has been discussion on why Evans replaced Allen in the film.

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Recently, Tom Hanks voices the lead character of Woody in the Toy Story franchise opened up about Lightyear replacing Tim Allen.

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Speaking about how his new movie Elvis was going head to head against Lightyear, he said," How about that? I actually wanted to go head-to-head with Tim Allen and then they didn't let Tim Allen do it. I don't understand that."

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Further speaking about Chris Evans voicing Buzz in the film, Hanks told Independent, "Yeah, yeah, I know.

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Here's the thing: I want to go back in the theatre with a bunch of strangers and leave with something in common.

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That's what I want to do and, going to see a movie with [Allen] – I'm looking forward to that."

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Tim Allen himself also recently weighed in on Lightyear and spoke about how it was a completely different story unrelated to the toy that he plays in the franchise.

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The actor while speaking to extra maintained that while it's a "wonderful story", it has no connection to the toy.

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The actor also revealed that he "stayed out" of the topic of Lightyear since it does not revolve around his version of Buzz.

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Tom Hanks questioned why Pixar didn't bring back Tim Allen for Lightyear while speaking about Chris Evans' film recently.

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