Tron=Rock!!! This movie will be sweet... I want to go blind with the neon glow

Ethereal006

Finally. Some good news. Now cue the pictures of the old fat guy in the tron suit... ahh... there it is...

Solaris79

Disney just can't leave a good thing alone, can they?

Alright, fine. I'll admit it. Tron wasn't so hot back in the 1980's. People watched the movie and thought it was a bore. So, "tra la la" about 20 years later, Tron gets released on DVD. Alright, cool. I own the DVD and I love the movie. Alright, fine. Disney and Square-Enix used Tron in Kingdom Hearts II in a world called Space Paranoids, named after a game used in the original movie. Fine, that section of KH2 was interesting, and my favorite part of the game... [besides getting Sora's Final Form, but that's another time...]

But to make the movie released in 2011? And in 3D? If it didn't do so hot in the 1980's, what makes Disney think that it'll do well in 2011 with "cutting edge graphics?" Just because it was in KH2? Just because Tron hugged Sora, all the fangirls got their panties in a bunch and demanded that Disney makes a remake of Tron? Because they think that is what the people want?

Did Tron 2.0 even do well in game sales? I don't ever remember hearing much about the game, nor seeing in game stores...

Tron 2 is not going to be anything like Tron 1... and I really don't think *I* want anything to do with it. What's it going to be about? Tron bouncing between fixing major security flaws in Windows Vista while trying to prevent Apple OSX [or which one is recent? Sorry I am not up to tabs on the Mac OS...] and Linux from getting ahead because that's what Microsoft wants?

Sorry for the tangent rant. >: I hope to at least make people chuckle, anyways.

jParadox

I wish they'd just use Tron 2.0's plot for the movie. It was great, and undoubtedly what they come up with won't be.

aphex242

Johnny Depp as Sark. I'm calling it.

mariospants

I'm pretty sure they will f#ck this up. Hope they realize they are going to kill the name of one the best sci-fi movies of its time before its too late.

Lman

I love Tron, but I'm also kind of excited to hear there's a Logan's Run remake, let's hope it's not crap (what are the odds?)

JudgeNutmeg

I just got a boner so massive it poked God's eye out.

Insomnia Bob

I hope they clean it up. It looked like ass the last time i saw it.

GMC

Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!

Disney... for the love of God - don't f**k this one up!

'Using the same technology as Chicken Little' doesn't exactly fill me with confidence :^(

Aegis: Gentleman mercenary for hire...

Or, if you're in Seattle and want to stick with the original flick, you can go watch Tron in the theaters now. More specifically, March 4 at 8:00 at the Cinerama, presented in 70mm. It's been there most of the week. [www.cinerama.com]

Just, y'know, putting that out there. ;)

janai

Honestly I just wanna see them base it on TRON 2.0's plot. That in my head was the proper timeline ever since I played it, furthered by the follow up TRON comic book that happens after the game. That probably isn't gonna happen though, they're probably gonna make a new sequel plot...

Aitrus233

Too bad Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz have written majority of the throwaway episodes of LOST. Expose? Tricia Tanka is Dead? Yeah. Not exactly shining examples. At least they didn't write the Rose and Bernard episode....

Doomstink

@TrettOff: Still, the only way it can be as cool is if it's still shot on black and white Kodak film while Disney harasses the filmmakers.
And another Wendy Carlos/Journey soundtrack.

Erwin

*nerdgasm*

Shadowcast

@Kcet:

I don't see how it couldn't be otherwise haha ;)

dunetiger : apples are red

Pro's= Come on, it's Tron

Con's= Track record of remakes/sequel's, especially of 20 year old movies are...less than stellar (I'm looking at you Transformers)

Interstella5555

this is awful news. maybe you might be excited that tron is getting an update, which i am also. BUT if anybody watches lost, they know that these two guys are hack writers who have penned some of the worst episodes in lost history. i met these guys when they visited the university of wisconsin to talk about screenwriting and all i have to say is that if you care about tron at all, write to disney and get beg them to get new writers. otherwise all you are going to have the phantom menace version 2.0....blah

theseguyssuck

@Erwin: Even more ironic that the Academy considered Tron's effects cheating when the vast majority of the effects in Tron were NOT computer-generated. There's only about ten minutes of CG in Tron, but Tron had over an hour visual effects shots. Also, Tron had no digital compositing (that wouldn't happen in a movie until over five years later)- it was "old school" optical compositing with an insane number of layers. It held the record for most visual effects shots in a live action movie up until The Phantom Menace.

TrettOff

Only if it has Flynn. And sexually suggestive deleted scenes.
And if we follow it all the way down here...
@goodbadorugly: Indeed. In the (almost excessive) special features on the DVD they talk about how crazy it was to film such an ambitious movie on a limited budget while using an entirely new special effects process for the glow of the circuits. All that work and they weren't nominated for a special effects Oscar because they said using computers was "cheating." That's worse then when Jonny Greenwood's score for There Will Be Blood was ineligible because they can't nominate scores "diluted by the use of tracked themes or other pre-existing music."

Erwin

Tron is weird @_@ its weird that its a Disney film and was in kh X_X weeeeiiiiirrrrdddd

hrabbit

I thought Tron was always kinda over rated, its entertaining and fun to talk about, but the movie itself didn't wow me, then again, maybe if I had seen it live in 1982 as opposed to on a tv in 2006 I'd have a different opinion.

BassForever

First saw Tron at 8 years of age, late night on the disney channel. I didn't get it, obviously, it was far beyond my comprehension level at the time. Now I just recently saw this film in 70mm at a kick ass theater that had invited the director and some of the production staff to do a q/a after the film. I don't remember everything they said exactly, but what I came away with was this:

Tron had a crazy development cycle, it almost didn't get made, it ran horribly over budget. The filmmakers had essentially tried to push the envelope as much as possible in terms of visual effects. Lots of what they were doing was new and pioneering to the medium. Who knows how much they paid attention to the story (the movie is pretty damn cheesy). The point is that they made a gamble, trying to make the visuals carry the movie to the point where the audience can forgive the movie for the sometimes difficult story and unfamiliar computer lingo the characters throw around.

I have serious doubts that filmmakers can replicate the feeling of tron once again. It's one of those things like seeing superman fly, or watching bullet time in the matrix. Those things that wow you the first time you see them. Tron lives on because of a feeling of nostalgia and its technical brilliance.The effort would be better spent trying to make an original movie, instead of a sequel to a movie that doesn't need one.

goodbadorugly

You know what?

I think they can do it.

Aflack: Likes slushies

@kunio:

@gaijira:

The Nightmare Before Christmas was re-released back in theatres in 2006 and 2007; digitally remastered and projected IN 3D. With the use of special polarized glasses the movie became a 3D movie, like Chicken Little before it. Along with The Polar Express, Monster House, Open Season, Meet the Robinsons, the most recent Harry Potter in IMAX and Beowulf. The new 3D tech that Hollywood has created is the big thing now and a ton of movies are slated to be released in 3D.

icarusprime

Seriously, if you haven't played it, do yourself a favour & check out Tron 2.0. I bet it has aged well given the art design too.

ErskinPig

Tron part two.......I have a bad feeling about that..

_Ted_

Do I hear a failed sequel on the horizon? Why, yes! Yes, I do!

ShaggE

too bad I hated the movie, otherwise, it would have been good news to hear

animemecha

While I would love to have something as great as the original, I have a feeling that this will be less like Tron and more like The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl.

kingofallcosmos

I hate to re-hash a command (sorry, comment) another User made, but: greetings, programs! This Excites me greatly, I might have to shout Yahoo! (lol compooter speek, me am clever... But seriously, I'm in eager anticipation)

OmegaX123

@dunetiger : apples are red:am i correct in assuming that was partly a reference to del the funky homosapien? if so then nice =D

Kcet

This is a very bad idea.

There's a reason the original movie is so good... nostalgia. If you release a sequel of it now, the nostalgia is gone and you not only get a crappy movie from the sequel, the original is tarnished as well.

Let sleeping dogs lie!

chiablo

Greetings Programs! I'm a User and I'm sure that Tron defeated the MCP. I'm sure it was a corrupt program, but none the less, it excits me to learn that there are more adventures in the future. Uplaoding this information to my programs disc.

Black_Ops_19

@MoarFightos: They did make a Logan's Run remake it's Called " The Island"...

Mr.SithNinja

Somewhere out there Tommy Tallarico is blowing his load.

ForwardInReverse

@yournewbuddy:

OH YEAH! MATTY WOO!!!! YEAH!!! Alright. Move along. ;)

dunetiger : apples are red

Hey! I'm Matty! I'm stoked that I finally got one of my submitted tips put into an article on Kotaku. Yeah!

yournewbuddy

TROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNN!

Okay though, don't mess this up Disney.

blackadvent

@kunio: As far as I know, Nightmare Before Christmas didn't even have 3D effects. The only computer usage was for head-shape database stuff and motion control cameras.

Tron in clay would be amazing...high tech Gumby!

gaijira

@Spiffyness:

Oh, You know that it's going to be edgy and consequently crappy.

The great thing about Tron is the extreme cheesiness of it all.

Just think about star wars. The first three: AWESOME. But they were awesome because of the limitations of the era they were produced in. When the new star wars movies came out: SHEER DISSAPOINTMENT.

I have a feeling that Tron will fall to the same fate.

graddy

That Logan's Run remake was originally supposed to come out in summer of 2005, you know. I wouldn't take that guy too seriously.

MoarFightos

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Major joygasm.

Old-school Sonic fanboy

As much as a Tron sequel makes me creep towards the edge of my seat, I'm thinking it's going to have that terrible attempt to be "hip" that most remakes have. E.g. Tron will be a teenage boy on a digital skateboard with his pals the beat-boxing Bit, RAM the Funky Digispaien, and Yori the Punk Rock Diva of the Digital Playground.

See? I belong in Hollywood. Someone pay me a million bucks!

dunetiger : apples are red

@kunio:

They're talking about the imax 3-d version.

iameleveneight

WTF. Nightmare Before Christmas was done using stop animation with 3D effects.

[en.wikipedia.org]

Tron in clay would certainly be interesting.

kunio

Looks like I'm in for the long haul in front of the Regal.

I'll set up my pup tent this weekend. And by pup tent, obviously I mean erection.

Double J

Oh goodie Tron was a very neat movie(2.0 was a good game too), hmmm.... well I do really hope they don't screw it up. If they can't do it right then leav such a fine peace of entertainment alone >:(

Acunia

OMG, I am so excited, I think I am gonna watch it right now.

ghnvt

Oh hell yes. 'bout time.

Highlander Wolf

Tron as a child was awsome even though i didnt really know what was going on. But it just looked cool and it was like a videogame so i liked it even more.

Tron 2.0 for the Xbox was a bitchin FPS game that is the only other title i really want on Xbox Originals, since i already have Psychonauts.

ArmyofJuan

Completely awesome. I remember watching Tron as kid. I didn't really understand it but I thought it was a cool movie, anyway. Being an adult and re-watching it in 3d should be a fun experience.

Buttah

Yay Tron. I hope they keep it nice and cheesy; I'd hate to see it be all "edgy" and crap.

Spiffyness

no one believed me when i said tron would make a comeback! they'll see! THEY'LL ALL SEE!

zakky venom

To bring the theme to current they could change the blue disc to a green 360 swirl and have them battle the "Red Disc of Death" bad guys.

Mr.SithNinja

Tron 2.0 was an AWESOME FPS. Nevermind the film, I'd like to see another game!

ErskinPig

TRON FTW!!!!

Mr.SithNinja