Tron: Legacy was visually spectacular, but left some audiences cold with its less-than-compelling characters and plot. Nevertheless, after the film opened to moderate success worldwide, Disney was quick to announce a sequel for the project. The company even released several teaser clips and an epilogue to Tron: Legacy to help generate interest in the film.
Despite the potential for the franchise, however, development on Tron 3 (as it’s currently being called) has been relatively slow moving. A year and a half ago, Disney hired screenwriter David DiGilio to pen a draft of the screenplay, but since then we haven’t heard much about the film. Now, it looks like Disney is moving forward again.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, new Disney head Alan Horn has put the project on the fast track, hiring screenwriter Jesse Wigutow to rewrite the script. THR notes that Wigutow is a known commodity at Disney, having previously worked with the Mouse House on an adaptation of Peter and the Starcatchers and another upcoming project called Parallel. Wigutow is also working on The Crow reboot.
Getting the script right is the first step, but there are a number of other things that need to happen before Tron 3 can move forward. With Disney pushing forward on the project, you can expect the company to lock in its three stars: Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde and Jeff Bridges. Based on the teasers, Disney will also likely move to lock in Cillian Murphy to take on a larger villain role in the film.
Director Joseph Kosinski also needs to officially come aboard the project. Kosinski was involved in developing the story for the sequel and is definitely interested in the film, but he is also involved in multiple other projects. Currently, Kosinksi is finishing post-production on Oblivion with Tom Cruise, which comes out this spring, but I would expect Disney to lock him in soon.
Are you happy to see that Disney has returned its attention to the world of Tron, or would you have preferred the company delete this franchise altogether?
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Source: THR
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Legacy was much better than I thought it’d be. Seemed as much a labour of love on Kosinski’s part as the original was to Steven Lisberger. I’m interested to see what they do with a third film.
Tron without Jeff Bridges… I don’t know if that’s legal. But it still will kick ass!
Tron: Legacy is one of my biggest disappointments over the past few years. I was so badly hoping for a high concept franchise making adventure but was mostly left cold and it fell flat…
So, there’s part of me that would want to see a sequel because I think there’s potential but I’d be pretty skeptical until I saw some amazing footage and heard some positive.
There’s also a part of me that hopes yeah, move as fast as possible and lock up Kosinski because I don’t want Disney to pick him as the director of Episode 7. But that’s coming from the crazy fanboy that still lingers inside of me.
Watch TRON: Uprising on Disney XD. Tron is certainly moving up and I really think they can get TR3N on the right track.
Just out of interest, what’s the soundtrack like on that, Nathan? I’ve only seen the trailers, which looked interesting, though they seemed to be using elements of Daft Punk (or something pretty similar). I’m one of the few who found their work on Legacy…okay, serviceable, appropriate, nothing special, and certainly not as swoon-worthy as some. Horses for courses I know, but I can think of a dozen people off the top of my head who I reckon could have turned in something at least as good.
Can’t wait. Loved Legacy.
Flynn Lives! I’m a big fan of the original and I loved Tron: Legacy. I’m excited to see the 3rd movie.
I’ve been waiting for them to get started on the sequel since we saw the midnight showing at the IMAX. I am totally on board. I doubt Daft Punk will come back for the soundtrack though, unfortunately, which had an enormous impact on the quality of the film. If the TRON: Uprising show is any indicator, however, Disney will continue to make tiny alterations to the tracks thereby keeping the music similar enough to Daft Punk’s that it sounds like they composed it. As much as I’d love to see Daft Punk return, I think I’d rather see them make original material if soundtrack work is going to hinder that process.
If they can’t or won’t return, it’d be a huge mistake to have some hack producer merely fiddle around in a studio with what they’ve already done. It’d be an established sonic identity fighting a losing battle against the law of diminishing returns at that point. Personally I’d like to see someone else take a stab at the soundtrack now anyway. Daft Punk’s work was perfectly okay, but didn’t strike me as something so special that any number of electronic outfits/individuals couldn’t have equalled or bettered it in their own way, given half a chance.
i’m down… it took several viewings of Legacy for me to not flat out hate it. I think that that Hedlund guy wasn’t very good as a lead though.
I loved both tron movies, I think the 2nd one in 3D was fantastic, loved the soundtrack, my 12 yr old liked it, it would be great if they came into our world in the 3rd movie.
While a bit lacklustre Tron Legacy had enough about it to be the foundation for a good sequel
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Have it star Michael Sheen and get the guy who did the Dredd soundtrack, and that’s an awesome movie. I say drop the lead from Legacy, he had about as much charisma as an actor from an Old Navy commercial.
I was so excited to see Tron Legacy, the first trailer gave me butterflies….while I was somewhat disappointed with the overall film. I still enjoyed it immensely.
I will be first in line for Tron 3!!
Screw Heldund and wilde, they’re exactly why the first film failed.. they got screen time that SHOULD have been spend on proper storytelling and exposition.. as for the ending, I can suspend belief enough to accept a real person converted to energy, dropped into the grid and managing to leave (ok, accepted big jump, but it at least follows some kind of, warped, logic.. deconstituted then reconstituted, but her coming out of the grid at the end when she didn’t have a body in the first place?
That ending NEEDS retconned or future movies, if any, will fail as a story and be nothing more except more shallow effects and nothing else, as THAT I will not pay to go see.
also, the movies stars are actually, Bridges and Boxlightner… how can you even mention Tron and ignore ol’ Brucie.
The SHIVA digitizer works by reconstructing the molecular layout of a being out of carbon materials. If it was told to digitize something that didn’t go in it wouldn’t care either way.
But yeah, the concept is a stretch, much like transporter beams or lightsabers and The Force.
Anyone who thinks Tron Legacy was bad writing needs to return to it and really watch it to get the subtext that they threw in there. The one where Flynn is God or creator and Clu is the dark angel or devil that is also created by god and is doing exactly as he was created to do. The devil corrupts every thing he touches in this movie but as you see near the end this become more obvious when Tron dies saving the users and returns to being light blue instead of orange corrupted. There are many hint to this sub story if you watch closely like how the main character is always known to the programs as the son of Flynn an obvious take on son of god. Watch it again. It has far better writing then people realize and it’s sad that it will be taken over by new people who probably wont put that effort into it.
Yep, picked up on that. Original had religious themes too. Legacy had ideas way over many people’s heads, sadly, hence “bad writing”.
Here’s hoping they can get the mouth breathers on this one yet still do great.
Yes make a Tron 3! I loved Legacy, Daft Punk have to do the soundtrack again, the Legacy soundtrack is a masterpiece..
Sadly, I cold not disagree more. The Daft Punk soundtrack was completely lacking in musicality.
There were more musical ideas in a 60 second Wendy Carlos cue from the original than in the whole Daft Punk score.
Sadly it’s something that can be said of most of today’s unpalatable film “music”.
really? man why? legacy was utter garbage!!! cg was cool, so what! that doesnt make up for the fact that the characters were horrible. The lead actor was prolly the worst lead ive seen in a long time! This movie will bomb if its made. If they are gonna do it, get a new director and screen writers, u know u might as well reboot it, cuz if they go with the same lead and director and writers, then it will bomb.
I’m extremely pleased to know that a lot of you guys liked Tron: Legacy. A lot of critics/viewers butchered this film for its poor story and plot. DAFUQ! Okay, maybe the acting from the lead actor wasn’t that great. But the storyline was pretty damn good. Same goes with Tron: Uprising. Don’t you just get sick and tired of hearing other people say that TR2N was boring except for the visual effects? Onward, TR3N!
I thought it was boring INCLUDING the visual effects. All the life from the original was gone from the sequel.
And having a bad lead actor is a pretty huge problem.
Excellent news, I thought that since Disney purchased Star Wars they would give up on TRON. I really liked Legacy, yea yea, acting, writing issues. Isn’t that the same for Star Wars. I love the whole idea of the digital world. Legacy pulled in over 400 million world-wide, I wouldn’t call it a flop. I would also encourage bringing back Daft Punk. I’m sure the lead actor will improve also. Can’t wait, love TRON.
That’s the usual Hollywood BS. Tron 2 was a resounding failure, which they spun as an OK venture in part by insisting they’d do Tron 3 since “why would they do a sequel if the original didn’t make money”.
And that my friends is how Hollywood ends up making sequels to flops.
Awesome…..I thought Tron Legacy was brilliant and I’m glad they are moving forward with the 3rd installment as promised. I hope they bring back Boxleitner and bring back Cindy Morgan (Yori) and Dan Shor (Ram)from the teaser clips that were released on the Blu-ray Dvd. Adding David Warner back with Cillian Murphy would be awesome!