Because why not? The premise is that computer programs are sentient beings and microchips are cities. Their virtual world known as the Grid is connected to our world by a laser that digitizes people and a portal that converts them back. The Tron movies are best remembered for their effects. Tron looks dated now , but it was a pioneer in its time. Not everything in Tron: Legacy holds up a decade later, either, particularly a CGI version of a young Bridges that looks like someone took acid en route to the uncanny valley.
But some of the set pieces electronic gladiators flinging laser discs at each other in a virtual coliseum and racing holographic motorcycles on ribbons of light are still jaw-dropping spectacles.
Both movies have the same basic plot structure. The main character is trapped inside the Grid by a renegade program on a power trip of cosmic proportions. It reexamines the basic assumptions of the original and changes how you look at it. A streak of Christian theology runs through Tron. Programs are created in the image of their users, but a seemingly impenetrable barrier exists between them.
Then one day a user Flynn becomes a program, lives among them, and ultimately sacrifices himself to restore the relationship between the two. But the similarities go only so far. He just gets the money that was coming to him. So what would happen if Flynn created his own version of the Grid?
All things considered, tackling a Tron sequel will be a big step forward in Davis' career as a director. Deadline does note in their exclusive report Davis has been actively pursuing the gig, implying the director has a vision and way into the Tron world. If that's the case, then color me optimistic to see what he's planning to cook up for the continuing Tron story.
News of Davis' attachment to the Tron sequel means we must all bid farewell to the hopes of director Joseph Kosinski returning to direct. Kosinski helmed Legacy and had long been attached to the third Tron movie. The project sputtered around Disney in the years following Legacy 's release, with Kosinski saying in the movie was in a "cryogenic freeze" and thus, signaling to fans a threequel may not have been so sure a thing.
That momentum would continue into the summer of , as in June of that year, it was revealed that David DiGilio, whose biggest credit to that point was the ABC fantasy drama series Once Upon a Time , had been hired to write a script.
But would it stick? But more details were soon on the way, just not what anyone wanted to hear. The Disney hammer, well, axe, came down in May when it was revealed by The Hollywood Reporter that the studio was putting its Tron 3 plans on ice and placing the metaphorical tarp back onto the old arcade machine. A little less than two years after the plug had seemingly been pulled on the Tron franchise, the old arcade machine came back to life with the news that Disney was having second thoughts about ending the franchise and instead wanted to go back to the drawing board with Jared Leto.
But just like all things in Hollywood, Tron 3 would remain a fluid project with plenty of changes ahead. A few years went by before there was much news on the Tron 3 front, but things really started cooking in the summer of with a number of developments in the dormant franchise.
And while there were a great deal of concrete details revealed in the report, the prospect of the movie being developed at all after years of delays was a sight for sore eyes. The idea was to build on the final moments of Legacy , in which the digital warrior and "isomorphic algorithm" Quorra Olivia Wilde follows Sam back into the real-world, making her the first "digital-human hybrid," as Kosinski described it.
Because of this, Ascension would've likely focused more on Quorra than Sam as she continues to adjust to life in the real-world and finds herself wondering where she truly belongs. After spending a few years getting the Ascension script into shape, Disney's intention was to begin production on the film in , with Kosinski once again directing. But before that could happen, their big-budget sci-fi adventure Tomorrowland bombed at the box office that same year, prompting the studio to pause and reassess their plans for the future.
So, rather than taking a risk on yet another uncertain bet after years of releasing failed and expensive would-be franchise starters like John Carter and The Lone Ranger , Disney elected to shelve the next TRON installment and continue focusing on expanding its acquired brands and IPs instead.
Jump to the present and TRON 3 is back in development, albeit in the different form. As mentioned, the Leto-led film is presently described as being a standalone sequel, as opposed to being a reboot as initially reported. At the same time, it's clear this won't really be a direct continuation of Legacy : in addition to featuring a different star, director Garth Davis , and writer Jesse Wigutow than that movie did, it doesn't make a whole lot of business-sense for Disney to green-light a threequel like Ascension at this stage.
As much as the TRON fanbase loves the franchise's ideas about technology and the relationship between creators and their creations, Legacy 's visuals and exhilarating Daft Punk score left a far stronger impression on the moviegoing masses than its plot or characters did.
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