{"id":67813,"date":"2022-07-05T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/tom-hanks-wanted-to-battle-tim-allen-at-the-box-office-lightyear-team-had-other-plans"},"modified":"2022-07-05T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T22:02:00","slug":"tom-hanks-wanted-to-battle-tim-allen-at-the-box-office-lightyear-team-had-other-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/tom-hanks-wanted-to-battle-tim-allen-at-the-box-office-lightyear-team-had-other-plans","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hanks wanted to battle Tim Allen at the box office. &#8216;Lightyear&#8217; team had other plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Hanks, seen in 2019, has some thoughts about the new &#8220;Lightyear&#8221; film. (Frazer Harrison \/ Getty Images)Tom Hanks doesn&#8217;t think &#8220;Lightyear&#8221; is valid without the voice of the man who made Buzz Lightyear famous.&#8220;Lightyear,&#8221; the new Buzz Lightyear-centered spinoff of the &#8220;Toy Story&#8221; franchise that starred Hanks and Tim Allen, follows the green-suited hero around the galaxy as he attempts to escape the reach of the evil Zurg.In a departure from tradition, though, the new movie stars Chris Evans as Buzz Lightyear &#8212; rather than Allen, who has voiced the animated character since 1995.That decision left Hanks, a.k.a. Woody, scratching his head. The actor, who stars in Baz Luhrmann&#8217;s new &#8220;Elvis&#8221; &#8212; which opened one weekend after &#8220;Lightyear&#8221; &#8212; said he had been excited to compete against his friend for America&#8217;s eyeballs, until he heard the team had gone in a different direction.&#8220;I wanted to go head-to-head with Tim Allen, but they didn&#8217;t let him do it,&#8221; he recently<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Hanks doesn&#8217;t think &#8220;Lightyear&#8221; is valid without the voice of the man who made Buzz Lightyear famous. &#8220;Lightyear,&#8221; the new Buzz Lightyear-centered spinoff of the &#8220;Toy Story&#8221; franchise that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[18,19,21],"class_list":["post-67813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-news","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}