Disney’s Lightyear New Lightyear Trailer Has Us Ready to Go to Infinity and Beyond

We briefly went to infinity and beyond during the 2022 Oscars.

We’re, of course, referring to the new trailer for Disney and Pixar’s Lightyear, which dropped amid a commercial break for the awards show. The animated film, which is arriving in theaters on June 17, stars Chris Evans as Buzz Lightyear, an astronaut for Star Command tasked with testing flights in order to help get a group marooned on a planet home. (And, yes, this is the origin story for the Buzz Lightyear action figure we came to love in the Toy Story franchise.)

It’s a showdown so epic, it makes Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader look positively silly by comparison. After all, if Buzz really does want to go to infinity and beyond, he must conquer Zurg’s iron grip on the galaxy!

“Let’s get everyone home,” he vows to his team in this latest trailer.

To help Buzz win this star war, he has a robot cat to help him sleep easier at night (or not, it seems). The footage, set to David Bowie’s ‘Starman’, certainly makes Lightyear look suitably epic.

“A year of work for a four minute flight,” Buzz says in the trailer. “Isn’t that something?”

But, before Buzz can take off, a green creature tries to pull him away, proving that this is not the space your science teacher taught you. As Buzz and his robotic cat Socks continue on a perilous mission, new enemies emerge, including “a massive robot.”

Lightyear Trailer

The voice cast for Lightyear includes Hollywood legend James Brolin as Emperor Zurg, as well as Nope‘s Keke Palmer, Marvel’s Taika Waititi, Orange is the New Black‘s Uzo Aduba and Dale Soules as supporting characters.

The film is being directed by Angus MacLane, a Pixar veteran who has previously cut his teeth with the Toy Story of Terror Halloween special and then also rose the ranks to co-direct Finding Dory.

Lightyear is out on June 17 in the UK and US.

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