Lightyear just wasn't a very good movie. It's easier for execs to blame including a gay character than to admit the failure of multiple people at high levels in making a bad movie. My son was crazy for Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story and we wanted to like Lightyear, but the story just made no sense.
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Can we pay the people who make these billion dollar movies?
“I think for a month or two, the animators were working seven days a week,” one source says. “Ridiculous amounts of production workers, just people being tossed into jobs they'd never really done before… It was horrendous.”
“I would venture that at least 95% of the people that got laid off are financially f*cked right now,” one person says.
“The internal culture of Pixar right now is really rough,” one former employee says. “There is just an incredible amount of people who are like, ‘I can't do this anymore.’ “