Tim Allen FIRED From Toy Story

Buzz Lightyear - who was originally voiced by Tim Allen in the Toy Story franchise - will be voiced by Chris Evans

The movie studio says they want to "move the character in a new direction"

If Allen is only voicing the character, how does a change in voice move the character in a different direction?

Why did he get fired though?

[quote] Why did he get fired though?

They want to move the character in a new direction - how can do that with just a voice-over?

R2 I don't know. It's actually stupid, and I like Chris Evans, but this makes no sense.

They want to spin off Buzz Lightyear into its own franchise perhaps? Tim's too old for longevity and may have too dear of salary demands.

Fired because he's a conservative in 5, 4, 3, 2 . . .

[quote] Fired because he's a conservative in 5, 4, 3, 2 . . .

No they said they want to move the character in a new direction

Tim Allen really put the 'tool' in Tool Time.

Evans is playing the real person the toy is based on...or something.

That direction is far away from you Mr Allen.

Allen was making $1.25 million an episode on that Tool Time show. Even though that was many years ago I imagine his salary expectations are still rather high.

R11 they didn't even negotiate - it was just "we are moving the character in a new direction" the movie studio didn't offer Allen anything

He probably requested a child play the role instead.

Who the fuck cares about Tim Allen? Fuck Tim Allen

Tim Allen Dick

His real name. It suits him.

He's a druggie or a drunk or both. The evangelicals will forgive him because Jesus wants them to judge people as mere mortals and decide who is going to heaven.

It could simply be because his voice is changing and he’s starting to sound more like an old man than a young one. It’s been 25 goddamn years since the first movie.

They wouldn't come out and say it's because he's a conservative. He doesn't have an active controversy right now. I doubt anyone is thinking about Tim Allen in their day to day life.

My guess is this is a preventative measure. They don't want to pour huge amounts of money into a Toy Story project only to have him become a controversy that needs to be addressed and compromises profits.

Take a look at how other conservative men carry themselves in recent years. You don't want Buzz Lightyear going off the rails publicly.

He's a social media shit storm waiting to happen. As it is they chose to connect a beloved children's character to a former cocaine dealer. That may have been OK in 1995 when everyone's history wasn't available with the click of a button, but now it's not so easy to bury the past.

I can easily forgive him for his youthful drug dealing scandal and prison sentence, but the right wing Trump loving stuff is something I simply can't overlook.

So are they replacing Tom Hanks too?

No, R22 cuz he eats & screws the babies with them hollyweird producers, unlike my man Tim the Tool Man! Hollywood is gonna be exposed by Trump!!

Probably cause he is a republican...

Regardless, I always had a mad crush on him! I would rim him deep!!

his ex wife lives right up the road in the summers in Leelanau County MIchigan

THIS NEVER HAPPENED.

He wasn't fired from Toy Story. Learn to Google, gullibles.

OP is being intentionally misleading to sensationalize the story. Tim Allen is 67 years old. How would he play the real life Buzz Lightyear? What are they gonna do, show him fly fishing in Florida after his retirement? De-age his face but leave him with a stiff old man body like De Niro in The Irishman? This is a separate, live action project. If more Toy Story movies get made then Tim Allen will still likely be voicing the animated character.

“To Obscurity And Beyond!”

[quote] I can easily forgive him for his youthful drug dealing scandal and prison sentence, but the right wing Trump loving stuff is something I simply can't overlook.

He’s a white male. Of course you can.

Oh this is an outrage 🤡

Why oh why oh why would Tim want to work with a bunch of pedo, baby eating liberals? Hmmmmmm You would THINK he would be the one to turn this down. He has enough money to last several lifetimes. So, so strange.

Chris Evan's rise to fame has been amazing. He has managed not to offend anyone on his way up, unlike Chris Pratt, and he has a large gay and black (female) fan base. Not many white actors have reached his level of goodwill.

I love too love the guy.

Like the above poster said, Tim Allen is an old man now and doesn't sound very youthful. His voice wouldn't be right for Buzz Lightyear.

I rather admire the coke dealing - someone has to supply us, after all - but I hate the Trumpsterism.

[quote]This is a separate, live action project.

About a separate character, the fictitious real-life inspiration for the toy.

I can't believe how easily DLers are fooled these days.

They're going to do a live action Toy Story and will segue Chris Evans' voice into the physical character.

I believe Pixar wanted to make the character trans and Tim Allen wasn't happy.

He didn't want to play Babs Lightyear.

[quote]And just to be clear, this isn’t Buzz Lightyear the toy. This is the origin story of the human Buzz Lightyear that the toy is based on

Chris' statement provides the simple explanation. He's playing a different character: the human person the toy is based on.

Tm Allen is a snitch who got caught with enough coke to put him away for decades. He ratted out every other dealer he knew in order to make a deal. But of course now, years later he’s a conservative. Law and order! He’s complete scum. I can’t believe he’s had a career at all because he’s so mediocre. He must have made a blood sacrifice or something.

allen is a known grouchy old fug.....goood.

Am bigger fan of chris pine....

Just read r27’s post. If this is live action, then he wasn’t fired.

Too bad this wasn’t done back in the day. Annie Potts would’ve been a great live Bo.

HE WASN'T FIRED. It's not live action but it is NOT the "toy" version of the character that Allen voiced.

It is somewhat confusing. From what I gather, this is going to be about the character the "toy" is based on... all within the Pixar "Toy Story" world.

The Buzz Lightyear toy in "Toy Story" is from a space movie franchise in that Pixar world. This is going to be one of those movies... but for us. It's about a young Buzz as a test pilot. So the Buzz Lightyear we'll see is a human (animated) not a toy and Chris Evans is voicing that human. Like I said, confusing.

Hey, r25, we're neighbors.

You can’t be fired if you weren’t hired in the first place.

His criminal record was common knowledge when he was on Tool Time.

Back then, you were allowed to move on with your life once you had atoned for your errors.

Tim isn't funny and he's an asshole. His TV son Zach Ty Bryan is also a Trumpanzee

Tim isn't funny and he's an asshole. His TV son Zach Ty Bryan is also a Trumpanzee

But his hotter TV son Jonathan Taylor Thomas voted for Biden.

Good. He’s a freeper cunt fuck.

I’m sure he’ll twist this to being censored and blacklisted for being a Trumper. Never mind that Producers will want Toy Story to appeal to children, who don’t know who the fuck this old goat is. 🐐

Well if this isn’t a live action movie but another animated feature, then there is certainly some question as to why they couldn’t use Tim. I think most people, myself included, upon hearing about a Buzz origin story would look forward to hearing Tim’s voice in that movie. I think it would make it more special.

And how old are you, R52?

fired because he's a demanding cunt

I saw him at a local comedy club years before he became famous, and he really had one of the funniest acts I’d ever seen. This was back when all the comedians did the comedy club circuit, so I saw a lot of them. I think he dumbed his stuff down, because I didn’t enjoy any of his tv shows. But I remember thinking back then that he was going to be really successful.

I remember when he was kinda hot in a DILFy way.

But becoming a humorless conservacunt killed that.

I think he burned his bridges with Disney when he publicly took issue with Disney-owned ABC cancelling his conservative TV show "Last Man Standing" a few years ago.

We are the Three Little MAIIIIIIIIDS from School!

[quote]Chris Evan's rise to fame has been amazing.

Oh, dear.

they prolly just didn't think a children's doll should sound like it's been a chain smoker for 50 years

Or a longtime rumored alcoholic.

[quote] they prolly just didn't think a children's doll should sound like it's been a chain smoker for 50 years

Read the previous replies. Chris isn’t playing the toy.

Yeah, R57. He publicly bashed Disney, blaming them for cancelling the show for "reasons" implied to be to quash his conservative spotlight when he KNEW that was not true.

What he knew and didn't say was how the show was produced by FOX but aired on ABC (disney) so Disney only made money on shows aired on their network and wouldn't make any money on rerun licensing, FOX would make that money.

And Last Man Standing was no longer in the top 20 tv shows so it wasn't bringing in the money a Disney produced show would in that same slot. It's common nowadays for bigger networks to produce the programming they air so they make money thru the whole cycle of the show., new to reruns. TIM ALLEN KNEW this. He's been in tv for decades, he knows the business. That's all Disney was doing. They were pruning the lower rated shows they didn't produce in-house from their lineup but he publicly smeared them, lying, to goad his fans.

I'm sure Disney execs didn't appreciate that since the'd been amicably in business with him for years and years.

R49 after all these years, it still strikes just how much our dear qwerty resembled Allen. They really could be father and son.

This entire argument is like getting angry that JTT isn't still voicing the cub Simba, or playing a variation of the character in a new adaptation. 'Original cast' doesn't mean 'eternal cast'. It's been nearly thirty years, give it a rest.

You can tell that Jonathan is definitely Tim's favorite on-screen son.

They're like perfectly complementary opposites.

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