{"id":43231,"date":"2022-02-09T14:57:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T10:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=43231"},"modified":"2022-02-09T14:57:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T10:57:51","slug":"chris-evans-steps-into-buzz-lightyears-space-boots-in-animated-origin-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2022\/02\/09\/chris-evans-steps-into-buzz-lightyears-space-boots-in-animated-origin-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Evans steps into Buzz Lightyear&#8217;s space boots in animated origin story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chris Evans, no stranger to donning a famous uniform, has suited up once again &#8212; this time to go to infinity and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Evans lends his voice to the upcoming animated origin story of Buzz Lightyear, aptly titled &#8220;Lightyear.&#8221; A trailer for the film, about the legendary space ranger who inspired the toy, was released on Tuesday.<br> Keke Palmer, Dale Soules and Taika Waititi round out the voice cast.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Buzz&#8217;s world was always something I was excited about,&#8221; said director Angus MacLane in a statement. &#8220;In &#8216;Toy Story,&#8217; there seemed to be this incredible backstory to him being a Space Ranger that&#8217;s only touched upon, and I always wanted to explore that world further. So my &#8216;Lighytear&#8217; pitch was, &#8216;What was the movie that Andy saw that made him want a Buzz Lightyear toy?&#8217; I wanted to see that movie. And now I&#8217;m lucky enough to get to make it.&#8221;<br>\nThe film is set to his theaters June 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Evans, no stranger to donning a famous uniform, has suited up once again &#8212; this time to go to infinity and beyond. Evans lends his voice to the upcoming animated origin story of Buzz Lightyear, aptly titled &#8220;Lightyear.&#8221; A trailer for the film, about the legendary space ranger who inspired the toy, was released &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-entertainment","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43233,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43231\/revisions\/43233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}