You’re going to read a lot about why that happened. Lightyear opened on Friday and performed disappointingly. You can almost hear how a silence must have descended on the meeting in which this notion was first proposed, a silence only ended when someone very high up shouted: 'Brilliant!' And thus was born Lightyear. Well, something almost exactly like this happened to the people at Pixar and Disney a few years ago when they looked at their IP and had the blinding flash that they could build a new animated action franchise based on an iconic character from the very first Pixar film: Toy Story ’s Buzz Lightyear. Watch as a young Frank Drebin breaks up a drug ring as he learns he has to rely on his partners and not go it alone! Yeah… nah. And it comes to you: You could redo The Naked Gun, only… serious! You discover that you possess the rights to the farcical Naked Gun series. So say you’re a movie studio executive desperately looking through your backlog of titles for some 'intellectual property' you already own that you can exploit.