Further Information on TRON movies/tv show

tron is about as appealing to me as testicular cancer, or a carrot top movie no no no no no no no no no

There is only one thing that the "new" Disney is capable of doing to this, and that is, to screw it up. I present exhibit A, Inspector Gadget.

I don't know, maybe it's just me... But why is it that when someone just plain doesn't want to see whatever project that we get news about on this site, they have to go nuclear and demand that the project never get done or that the producer should suffer some fate to land him on "Unsolved Mysteries: The Next Generation"? I mean, sure, I wouldn't be terribly interested in the Warriors of Tron, though I'd like to see what Pixar could do with a remake or sequel to the original. But I see so many more news items about things that I have less than ZERO interest in.. You know what? I won't see them, but let someone else who wants to see them have their fun.

Hasn't this already been done? Anyone remember "Reboot"?

Too weird. Buckaroo Banzai, Tron.. These are comebacks that I really thought couldn't happen in a rational world. OK, so we'll always be plagued by TV spin-offs of recent, successful stuff.. But long-ago bombs? Both movies, although fabulous for the time, (Especially BB), were box office anthrax. Very trippy. Still, I'm eagerly awaiting the Howard The Duck TV series.

Pixar has gone on record that they are not affiliated with anything Tron related. They stated that they are not interested in "re-making" anything, as they prefer only making "original" work. The official word is Disney might do something, but Pixar ain't. Just thought all the loyal users should know we ain't gettin a new movie. Whether that's good or bad...

It is rather easy: getting Bruce Boxleitner, who, with Babylon 5

Sadly, this is tooo true. I would occasionally watch IG when my younger sister had it on - semi-entertaining....but this movie does NOTHING for me - at least South Park (which I have a low threshhold for anyways) looks good for a hour & a half of quirky comedy.

Despite those movies' flaws (specifically the flaws of their inept directors who clearly didn't understand how to properly handle their cool-showcase material), TRON and Buckaroo Banzai were box-office flops due to one simple factor: Marketing. Nowadays the results would have been different, but back then, the Madison Avenue types simply were not prepared to handle such strange off-the-wall movie concepts. As a result mainstream America ignored them, and only cult followings eventually ensued. In the pre-Eisner days of the Reagan era, the Disney Company screwed up EVERYTHING...they couldn't figure out how to deal with modern demographics. Everything they made flopped, and as a result their name-brand became a curse to any project. Had a different studio with reputable genre success produced TRON (ie 20th Century Fox), the box-office may very well have been different. After all, the movie was a thinly-veiled variation on Star Wars, geared towards the emerging digital society of Atari players. Fox could have skillfully appealed to moviegoers, just as they made Predator appeal to the Aliens fans. On the other hand, 20th Century Fox did release Buckaroo Banzai, but because that bizarrely complicated movie was infinitely weirder and anti-formula in a truly non-StarWars way, Fox could not figure out how to categorize it, nor how to communicate to potential audiences what on Earth the story was. It was supposed to be a summer movie, but Fox was so confused by it they wound up sneaking it into theaters in September, where Banzai was doomed to oblivion. A third (unrelated) example of botched 80's sci-fi marketing was Warner Bros' Innerspace, which thanks to Spielberg, Dante, Peter-Gubers, and the cast of Meg Ryan, Quaid, and Short, should have been a big hit in the Back to the Future "science project" vein, but instead vanished after a few quiet weeks. Why? Marketing. The trailers were confusing, and audiences were never given a clearly coherent idea of what exactly the story and concept entailed...instead the commercials made it look like just another gimpy geek fest, rather than the rousing romantic fantasy buddy-comedy-adventure road movie that it was.

The basic outline of the Warriors of Tron with the kids finding an old Flynn and going into the computer to battle the bad CPU - sounds very much like the awful Lawnmower Man 2. In there we had Job who was coming up with some way to take over the world by using come special chip that the main good guy designed (who then gave up and became a reclusive hermit). Until some kids mucking about in VR found out and pulled him into the story to save the world. etc etc

Tron was the bomb back in the day. Lord knows I pedaled my ass off around the block for hours on end pretending to be a light cycle but....a remake? Come on. The idea of going "into" a computer and doing virtual battle was cool then. Now its cliche. Are they gonna have some kinda AMD Deathrays to destroy the Intel Centurions? Its PLAYED OUT!!

I fear for Tron, especially if Disney makes it. Disney is starting to redeem itself in the animation field with its last (movie, not straight to video crap)projects; MULAN, A BUG'S LIFE, TARZAN, and TOY STORY 2. If Pixar is not touching Tron, then Disney is and it is going to suck if it is live action. Disney is starting to recycle its own classic films like the PARENT TRAP and THE NUTTY PROFESSOR and turn them into crap. (I admit, though, the PARENT TRAP remake was not that bad, but it ain't the original!) I personally do not want to see Disney touching any more of my favorite movies, video games, cartoons, and TV shows. Stick to the animation or get some good original material. And get some better writers while you're at it! I wasted ten bucks on bad popcorn and a worse movie all for the love of an old favorite cartoon...yeesh!

I'm going to have to agree with Manaqua here. One of the things that makes TRON so damn cool is that when it first came out, nothing like that had ever been done. It was original. A sequel or remake has potential, but it would have to be amazingly well done to be worth watching, and I Disney can't pull it off.

Put all your eggs in one basket. It's like the Indianna Jones Cronicles. Just make the movie and quit fooling around with the stupid little box on the other side off my livingroom.

Regarding Warriors of Tron, while even I myself am weary of this project, you have to remember that not all Movie-to-TV moves have been bad ones... If I recall, for ex., wasn't Battlestar Galactica released in the theatres first? (I think). I'll admit, most haven't been that great,but a few have shone... While I LOVED the Crow movie, I like the Crow series too... And Highlander (the first one) was pretty good (not later ones though..), but the 2 series based off the films are quite watchable. In reality, it's more often that old TV shows becoming movies bomb, rather than the reverse... Anyhoo... just a thought.. And as for the sequel to Tron - If they can make 2 sequels to The Matrix, which I thought wrapped everything up into a neat little package, certainly a sequel to Tron cannot be out of the question...

This "virtual reality computer shit genre" is over already! Dead and buried for all I care. Can somebody come up with something new? Has the well gone dry on original ideas?

I don't have any proof, but this is what all these rumors seem to add up to: 1) Disney may be doing a limitied re-release of Tron, in conjunction with their other live-action classics, and are going about restoring and/or improving the effects sequences. There are rumors that Pixar may be involved with this restoration, but this now appears to be untrue. 2) Disney may be producing a TV movie sequel to Tron (for its family Sunday night movie block on ABC). This sounds like the most likely situation and casting Bruce Boxleitner (he being the reliable TV actor that he is) would be very likely too (count out Jeff Bridges since he's the movie actor). Thus, gang, my money's on the above two being the most likely scenarios.

O.K. here's my take on how to update this, instead of a corperate hack who rose to the top by stealing others work and re-packaging it as his own replace him with Bill Gates...er...um...wait a minute here. O.K., so perhaps the truth may be stranger than fiction. On a lighter note, I'm sure many of us remember riding our bicycles (and perhaps later, motorcycles) and pretending they were Light Cycles, if for no other memory of the film Tron was worth something there. Cheers, ??Pseudo??

Tron is one of the greatest films of all time!!! The one thing Pixar should do is make sure Wendy Carlos does the soundtrack again. She really is a brilliant musician and helped bring a unique mood to the movie. Never overlook the details...