Tron 3 is coming (and Garrett Hedlund is confirmed to come back)
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Does anyone know if Tron: Uprising will ever get released on DVD or Blu Ray? I can't fathom why this hasn't been done yet.
Uprising has always been treated strangely by Disney. i haven't heard anything about a dvd release. at one point it was announced Uprising would be on Netflix...but it never showed up. and i don't think the show was ever officially canceled. just quietly moved to late night where it died.
Banished to that island of misfit cartoons home to such shows as Megas XLR, Sym-Bionic Titan or Motorcity. I see it is available from Amazon Instant Video though.
I suspect they are waiting for the new movie for the show to come out on DVD and always been.
I'm watching Tron right now and I'm thinking the whole thing is just Flynn's drug-addled imagination of his hacking attempts. That's why all of his friends are in the CPU world, even the ones who aren't users like the old man and "Yori". I don't think the laser ever breaks him down into the CPU, that's just his imagination trying to make hacking exciting. Note, in the beginning how he talks to CLU about his tank when all he's sees is text on his screen. It's just Flynn trying to make the mind-numbing task of coding more interesting to himself. 
Interesting idea, but the thing that always got me is the difference in the character Flynn between the two movies. Yeah, in the first film, he was a laid-back guy who liked to hack and code, but in no way did he ever seem (to me) to be at the level of the drug-addled patchouli-scented uber-hippie that he appeared to be in the second film who was always in it to change the world. Developers don't make games like Space Paranoids to change the world - they do it to have fun and make some money at it. There definitely seemed to be a kind of disconnect and almost retconning of the character to make it fit within the storyline. Not a terribly bad thing, mind you, but I always found Flynn's channeling of "The Dude" to be somewhat distracting. I always thought Jeff Bridges was a really good actor, but the slack-witted burn-out and the disheveled cowboy seem to be the only two kinds of roles he can perform these days. 
IIRC, Flynn spent (from his POV) several CENTURIES in the computer world - time passes much faster in the Grid than in the real world. Spending a thousand years in the Grid would change anyone.
@MrAdventure: Alan also "speaks" to Tron during the scene in the I/O tower. Apparently that's how users' communications are relayed to the programs...the users themselves don't talk, but their commands are 'translated' into speech that the programs hear.
@MrAdventure: Alan also "speaks" to Tron during the scene in the I/O tower. Apparently that's how users' communications are relayed to the programs...the users themselves don't talk, but their commands are 'translated' into speech that the programs hear.
It should also be remembered that Flynn's first time on The Grid was in itself quite a transformative experience.
Plus of course a number of years passed between the end of Tron and his disappearance in Tron Legacy's prologue, during which time he spent most nights visiting his new Grid. With the time differential (1:50 ratio IIRC), that means he could have been in there as much as a few days or a week at a time from his POV. Even before he wound up trapped, his mental age (for lack of a more apt term) could have been on the order of two or three decades greater than his physical age.
To get some idea of how much Flynn changed while stuck in hiding, remember that Clu is a literal mirror image of Flynn's psyche at the moment he created him. Something a lot of people seem to miss is that Clu didn't "go bad" he was just incapable of changing or adapting who and what he was. He is and always was Flynn. When the ISOs emerged Flynn being human was able to see his whole perception was wrong and was inspired to greater things. Clu didn't because he *couldn't*. He was the creator of the perfect system and Flynn and the ISO's represented a chaotic, unpredictable element that he simply couldn't tolerate.
At the mythic/storytelling level Clu is Flynn's own hubris made manifest. Not so different from that cocky young programmer who broke into Incom in '81.
Plus of course a number of years passed between the end of Tron and his disappearance in Tron Legacy's prologue, during which time he spent most nights visiting his new Grid. With the time differential (1:50 ratio IIRC), that means he could have been in there as much as a few days or a week at a time from his POV. Even before he wound up trapped, his mental age (for lack of a more apt term) could have been on the order of two or three decades greater than his physical age.
To get some idea of how much Flynn changed while stuck in hiding, remember that Clu is a literal mirror image of Flynn's psyche at the moment he created him. Something a lot of people seem to miss is that Clu didn't "go bad" he was just incapable of changing or adapting who and what he was. He is and always was Flynn. When the ISOs emerged Flynn being human was able to see his whole perception was wrong and was inspired to greater things. Clu didn't because he *couldn't*. He was the creator of the perfect system and Flynn and the ISO's represented a chaotic, unpredictable element that he simply couldn't tolerate.
At the mythic/storytelling level Clu is Flynn's own hubris made manifest. Not so different from that cocky young programmer who broke into Incom in '81.
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We have a possible title now, Tron: Ascension.
Works for me!
As for Flynn's transition into a aged hippy/mentor while trapped in the grid, I kind of think that Bridges himself had some say in the character development... He seems to have gone full-on yogi in real life, especially now that he has a CD of meditative chants available. I wonder if his return to Legacy didn't hinge a little on the producers allowing him to bring a little real life to his character.
He really is down to playing aging cowboys or wizened gurus for most of his roles these days... Whatever age has done to his mouth makes him a little hard for me to understand, unfortunately...
The Digital Dude abides. 
Disney has not officially come out with anything on this yet. But I suspect if there was no truth on it they would refute it. Maybe we with hear something at Comic Con.
Nice to see Disney is not abandoning properties other than Marvel and Star Wars. The situation with Tron is somewhat similar to the Muppets. Muppets Most Wanted under performed at the box office. Other than their usual commercial and talk show appearances there had been doubt Disney had any serious tv or Disney plans. Currently there are these "Muppet Moments" shorts on Disney Junior. But that is extremely low profile. So its a very pleasant surprise that they are shooting a Pilot pitch for ABC. I would be surprised if that is not picked up its getting a lot of social media attention before they have even filmed the thing.
The similarity with Tron is that Disney apparently has been very quietly working on this sequel.
Nice to see Disney is not abandoning properties other than Marvel and Star Wars. The situation with Tron is somewhat similar to the Muppets. Muppets Most Wanted under performed at the box office. Other than their usual commercial and talk show appearances there had been doubt Disney had any serious tv or Disney plans. Currently there are these "Muppet Moments" shorts on Disney Junior. But that is extremely low profile. So its a very pleasant surprise that they are shooting a Pilot pitch for ABC. I would be surprised if that is not picked up its getting a lot of social media attention before they have even filmed the thing.
The similarity with Tron is that Disney apparently has been very quietly working on this sequel.
He definitely had some input, though to what extent isn't clear. I do recall reading that the yoshimoto cubes were his idea as he missed not having Bit in the movie.
It should be noted though that the "Flynn as a guru" idea appears to have been in place as early as the proof of concept FX test.
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Visually it appears unchanged and IIRC they didn't even have a final script at this point. So if Bridges did have input, it was right there from the start.
Honestly I don't see the problem with it. Flynn was always a hippie/free spirit in the first movie, it makes sense that his character would develop along those lines.
Again though, remember that he's not portrayed as all knowing or by any means perfect. The entire situation and central conflict of the movie is predicated on the idea that Flynn has very deep flaws, which are personified by Clu. His obsessive nature, his fixation on a vision of a nirvana made manifest in digital perfection and his unwillingness to relent. That's why he and Clu were in a stalemate for 1000 years. Neither side would budge, hence Clu reaching out the the real world, hoping to add a wildcard that'd give him an advantage.
There's a lot more going on in this film than most seem to give it credit for. The yoshimoto cubes, the baoding balls, the go board, the chrome apple, the all-black vs all-white costume & set design all point towards the mythic, philosophical and spiritual undertones at play.
And then there's the mirrored scenes with Flynn giving that keynote speech about his digital frontier vs. Clu in front of his rectified army of blackguards. The subtext was hardly subtle, no?
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Disney keeps trying to put Tron rides in the parks. The Test Track at Epcot is pretty much a Tron ride now, they just don't mention it by name. They were also working on a Lightcycle ride that may become a speederbike ride for a Star Wars section.
They were certainly lost on me. I had no experience with the original franchise other than knowing Captain Sheridan was in it.
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