{"id":1862464,"date":"2023-02-27T15:35:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T20:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1862464"},"modified":"2023-02-27T15:40:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T20:40:29","slug":"we-asked-too-much-of-the-audience-disney-exec-offers-excuse-for-lightyear-flop-makes-no-mention-of-same-sex-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-asked-too-much-of-the-audience-disney-exec-offers-excuse-for-lightyear-flop-makes-no-mention-of-same-sex-kiss\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Asked Too Much Of The Audience\u2019: Disney Exec Offers Excuse For \u2018Lightyear\u2019 Flop, Makes No Mention Of Same-Sex Kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwe-asked-too-much-of-the-audience-disney-exec-offers-excuse-for-lightyear-flop-makes-no-mention-of-same-sex-kiss%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1862464&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/disney\">Disney<\/a> Executive reflects on the flop. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/movies\">&#8220;Toy Story<\/a>&#8221; Spinoff &#8220;Lightyear&#8221; was for the company.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve done a lot of soul-searching about that because we all love the movie. We love the characters and the premise. I think probably what we&#8217;ve ended on in terms of what went wrong is that we asked too much of the audience,&#8221; Peter Docter is Pixar&#8217;s chief Creative Officer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/pete-docter-interview-pixar-lightyear-toy-story-5\/\">Submitted<\/a> The Wrap<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When they hear Buzz, they&#8217;re like, great, where&#8217;s Mr. Potato Head and Woody and Rex? And then we drop them into this science fiction film that they&#8217;re like, What?&#8221; The filmmaker continued. &#8220;Even if they&#8217;ve read the material in press, it was just a little too distant, both in concept, and I think in the way that characters were drawn, that they were portrayed. It was much more of a science fiction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Docter continued to describe the &#8220;Toy Story&#8221; These characters are &#8220;much broader,&#8221; saying, &#8220;I think there was a disconnect between what people wanted\/expected and what we were giving to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The animated film 2022 earned $226.4 million on a budget of $200 million. This means that it lost money after accounting for marketing expenses. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lightyear&#8221; The inclusion of a causing controversy before its release. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/lgbtq\">Same-sex kiss<\/a> This was originally edited out and then reinstated in response the Florida&#8217;s Parental Rights in Education Bill. It is now known as the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Say Gay Bill&#8221; Many media outlets and leftists.<\/p>\n<p>There was some opposition to Chris Evans as Buzz Lightyear&#8217;s voiceover artist replacing Tim Allen. He supported the film&#8217;s same-sex kiss scene being kept in the movie and said that those who disagreed were wrong. &#8220;idiots.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every time there&#8217;s been social advancement as we wake up, the American story, the human story is one of constant social awakening and growth and that&#8217;s what makes us good,&#8221; During an interview with Reuters, Evans said this.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link c-link--focus-visible\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-115230\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Disney put a line in the sand saying, we&#8217;re putting this [kiss] back in, but also, we&#8217;re not going to remove it for any other territories, in these places that would have a problem with it.&#8221; The actor stated, adding that the kiss scene was &#8220;nice, and it&#8217;s wonderful, it makes me happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s tough to not be a little frustrated that it even has to be a topic of discussion,&#8221; Evans also added. &#8220;That it is this kind of \u2018news.&#8217; The goal is that we can get to a point where it is the norm, and that this doesn&#8217;t have to be some uncharted waters, that eventually this is just the way it is. That representation across the board is how we make films.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even critics of the controversial kiss scene were critical. They said there were many plot holes in the movie and that it strayed too far away from the original. &#8220;Toy Story&#8221; The storylines are meant to be enjoyed by the audience in the same manner as the other installments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Disney just announced they&#8217;ll be making &#8220;Toy Story 5&#8221; These are just a few of the many additions that can be made to existing franchises.<\/p>\n<p><em>Disclosure: The Daily Wire&#8217;s a href=&#8221;https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/videos\/introducing-dw-kids&#8221;>announced Plans<\/a> For children entertainment content<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Disney executive is reflecting on what a flop the \u201cToy Story\u201d spinoff \u201cLightyear\u201d was for the company, concluding the issue was the audience not understanding what they were trying to do. \u201cWe\u2019ve done a lot of soul-searching about that because we all love the movie. We love the characters and the premise. 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