Tron 3 is coming (and Garrett Hedlund is confirmed to come back)

[137th Gebirg]

Hell, I just want to get Tron: Uprising on Blu-Ray!

 

[Beagleman]

I would love a third Tron but the whole programs in the real world never really worked for me.

 

[Reverend]

Ugh, that's a terrible story idea. I'm sorry the film still isn't happening but not as sorry as before if that's what they're going to go with.

I don't know, I think it's a pretty logical progression from where Legacy left off, especially since the alternative would probably just be to repeat the same basic plot of the first two movies. Whether or not it's any good would depend on the execution.
Personally I like the idea of hopping back and forth between different grids and the real world. I think it has the potential to be very interesting if only from a visual standpoint.

 

[Morpheus 02]

I don't know, I think it's a pretty logical progression from where Legacy left off, especially since the alternative would probably just be to repeat the same basic plot of the first two movies. Whether or not it's any good would depend on the execution.
Personally I like the idea of hopping back and forth between different grids and the real world. I think it has the potential to be very interesting if only from a visual standpoint.

Well, I think the only alternative to the digital invading the real world would be somehow visually creating a computer world with the cloud, and how that might be interpreted in today's world of the web.

Maybe back then, you could say programs are just one individual being, residing in just one place... but with the web...it would take some creative thinking, but might be a way to represent it cinematically.

 

[Reverend]

Well, I think the only alternative to the digital invading the real world would be somehow visually creating a computer world with the cloud, and how that might be interpreted in today's world of the web.

Maybe back then, you could say programs are just one individual being, residing in just one place... but with the web...it would take some creative thinking, but might be a way to represent it cinematically.

It's an interesting concept, but one better suited to a TV show format to fully explore. With the other two movies the isolated systems allowed for more contained storytelling with easy to grasp stakes. I think one would be hard pressed to come up with a compelling conflict on which to base a movie using just "the web as a multiverse" as a basis.

I think for a movie it would work better as suggested as just an element of a larger story about worlds colliding in a very literal sense.

 

[Morpheus 02]

It's an interesting concept, but one better suited to a TV show format to fully explore. With the other two movies the isolated systems allowed for more contained storytelling with easy to grasp stakes. I think one would be hard pressed to come up with a compelling conflict on which to base a movie using just "the web as a multiverse" as a basis.

I think for a movie it would work better as suggested as just an element of a larger story about worlds colliding in a very literal sense.

I can see why you would say a TV would be better. we would definitely need more time to see how such a world would work.

... I am just thinking budget-wise, though, to make it look good..it would need a major movie budget to blow our minds away.

And story wise -- I am not sure how a digital army in the real world would work (Would they have magical" powers to make them invincible. What might make sense is that Tron 2.0 world now getting into the internet, and creating havoc that way...and because it's the internet, and the programs are alive... they could do all kinds of mayhem all over the world. And then plant "viruses: for future sequels.

 

[Reverend]

I can see why you would say a TV would be better. we would definitely need more time to see how such a world would work.

Now that I think about it, wasn't this basically the plot to 'Reboot' in the second or third season?

... I am just thinking budget-wise, though, to make it look good..it would need a major movie budget to blow our minds away.

For live action sure, but I think animation would be very well suited for this kind of thing.

And story wise -- I am not sure how a digital army in the real world would work (Would they have magical" powers to make them invincible. What might make sense is that Tron 2.0 world now getting into the internet, and creating havoc that way...and because it's the internet, and the programs are alive... they could do all kinds of mayhem all over the world. And then plant "viruses: for future sequels.

Keep in mind that Tron has always been pure fantasy, just with technology acting as a stand-in for magic. So yeah, I imaging they would pretty much exist in our world as they do in their's just as the Flynns remained physically human while on the grid. Kevin Flynn even aged in pace with the real world while stuck inside, despite his subjective experience of the time being something like a thousand years. The key difference would be that they wouldn't be able to interact with our environment the way they can with their's so vehicles not designed to work off the grid would be pretty much useless.

 

[C.E. Evans]

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Jared Leto is in talks for a Tron reboot/sequel/reimagining.

After cancelling a third installment in the sci-fi franchise in 2015, Disney is exploring the idea of a movie that would act as a Leto vehicle.

Disney is planning to get back on the grid. The studio is in the very early stages of development for a new Tron movie, with Oscar-winning actor Jared Leto circling to star, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.

No writer has been hired at this exploratory stage, and no filmmaker is involved. Justin Springer, who co-produced Tron: Legacy and exec produced the Tom Cruise sci-fi movie Oblivion, will produce. Leto and and his producing partner Emma Ludbrook would also be involved in some producing capacity if the project moves forward.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/he...eto-circling-lead-role-new-disney-film-982575

I'll believe it when I see it.

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[JD]

Interesting, but if it came down to a reboot or the above discussed third movie, I'd rather get the third movie.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Yeah, I'd rather see the third movie myself. According to the HR article, though, the proposed film will use elements from the tabled third movie script anyway (likely the idea of the Grid invading the real world, IMO).

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

So who's Leto going to play? Dillinger Jr.?

 

[C.E. Evans]

So who's Leto going to play? Dillinger Jr.?

A proposed new character named Ares from the original Tron 3 script.

 

[marillion]

This is definitely something I don't want to see re-booted.. At least not yet.. The "mythos" of Kevin Flynn needs resolution... We need an end-cap on the original story and we need Bruce back as Tron in full form, not an evil minion of Clu...

 

[publiusr]

Tron 3 would have been an invasion movie set largely in the real world.

They did that--it was called PIXELS.

(Not including an episode or two of Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends)

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Ugh, why? There's no need to reboot the franchise. And why Jared Leto? Ugh.

 

[C.E. Evans]

From what I understand from the article, it's less about continuing the story of Tron and more about Disney creating a vehicle specifically for Leto that already has something of an audience, but could be built into a larger one. But, IMO, all of this is little more than just an idea at this stage, with nothing really nailed down yet (including Leto's involvement).

 

[JD]

The article I read on IGN confused me. It called it a reboot, but then said it would use the the concept for Tron 3 as it's backbone. I can see two possibilities, either it's a reboot that just jumps right to the digital world invading the real world without all of the stuff the original two gave us on The Grid, or it's moving the story forward, but with a new hero.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

From what I understand from the article, it's less about continuing the story of Tron and more about Disney creating a vehicle specifically for Leto that already has something of an audience, but could be built into a larger one. But, IMO, all of this is little more than just an idea at this stage, with nothing really nailed down yet (including Leto's involvement).

That's part of what bugs me: Disney appears to be more concerned about creating a product for an actor than they are creating a good story to tell.

 

[C.E. Evans]

That's part of what bugs me: Disney appears to be more concerned about creating a product for an actor than they are creating a good story to tell.

It's the tried and true old Hollywood studio system in which many movies were mainly vehicles for various stars.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Sure...but it doesn't mean I have to like it.