According to the report:

The first thing I wanted to know was, is there a Tron video game in the works? Because so far, I haven’t heard anything.

Steven did confirm that yes, there IS a video game in the works by Disney Interactive. He said he wasn’t sure if he should mention it or not, but he’s confirming it anyway.

Lisberger, who was interviewed at yesterday’s D23 Expo, had no further details as far as consoles, the type of game, or its release window.

I’ve emailed PR contacts for Disney Interactive Studios to see if they want to clarify, refute or confirm Lisberger’s comment.

Confirmed! There Will Be A Tron: Legacy Video Game! [The Latino Review, thanks william b.]

Featuring a few dozen playable, perfectly preserved arcade games, a playable Space Paranoids—the fictional arcade game featured in the original Tron—and a totally sweet lightcycle from Tron Legacy, tucked away in a secret location.

The neon light work in Flynn’s was fantastic, featuring signs for a handful of featured games, like Tron and Space Paranoids.
The line-up of games was so choice. I played Berzerk and Galaxian, but the list of games ran from Paperboy to Space Invaders to Off Road, a mix of (mostly) 80s era games.
Here’s the Space Paranoids cabinet, one of the most popular titles at Flynn’s.
Space Paranoids has the player control a tank with a joystick and trackball, fending off hovering Recognizers that have no problem stomping you into oblivion. It wasn’t easy.
Here’s a close up shot of Space Paranoids in action.
Neon!
The Flynn’s Arcade set up had re-purposed the Tron movie poster into a promo poster for the game. From Encom, the makers of Space Paranoids, comes Tron.
This guy was attached to Tron the entire time. Probably for a very good reason…
At one point, the lights started to flicker, the jukebox started to cut out, and a hidden door opened up behind the Tron cabinet. The music changed from Billy Squire and Journey type tunes to something a bit more Daft Punk-like.
We were led into a dark hallway, featuring concept art for the lightcycles in Tron Legacy.
Then we saw the real thing, rotating slowly on a turntable, protected by security guards.
We took a lot of pictures of the thing. Too many probably.

Fortunately for Tron geeks and Jeff Bridges fans, Disney has released the Tron Legacy (nee TR2N) test footage, making us hungry for the eventual video game adaptation. Of course, given the nature of video games based on movies, previous Tron game attempts and the rumoured developer of Tron Legacy, we’ll keep those expectations throttled behind lightcycle speeds.

Downloadable high definition trailers at the movie’s teaser site.

Tron: Legacy [Flynn Lives via io9]

The planned Tron movie sequel (that may to borrow the name of the 2003 video game) has at least one aspect that’s promising—a soundtrack from French electronic duo Daft Punk.

While the return to the video game world of Tron—which has been titled both Tron 2.0 and TR2N during its pre-production—is still shrouded in mystery, music mag Billboard has confirmed that Daft Punk will be scoring the sequel. The only footage of the movie we’ve seen so far was at 2008’s San Diego Comic-Con, at which Disney previewed footage of the re-imagined light cycle racing game.

Which, by the way, looked boneriffic.

Billboard, by way of the occasionally reliable IMDB, pegs the Tron movie sequel for a 2011 release.

Given Disney’s internal video game development capabilities, we don’t doubt that a video game adaptation of Tron 2.0 is in the works in some capacity. We’re just wondering how they’re going to get around the naming mess.

Daft Punk Scores TR2N Soundtrack [Billboard]

Disney’s shutdown of two Utah studios may mean no Turok sequel, but plans for a new Tron game are still in the works, Variety reports.

Variety cites unnamed sources, and a spokesperson for Disney Interactive declined comment, but this isn’t that hard to imagine. Tron is, after all, about video games, and the trailer for Tr2n (not a typo) sent a geeked-up Comic-Con crowd into a Wendy Carlos-induced frenzy. In other words, a natural tie-in delivered to a ravenous and captive audience.

When, though? The film isn’t scheduled for release until 2011. “I’ll go out on a limb and say Disney won’t release it in the Winter, since that means the game will have a solid amount of production time,” writes Ben Fritz. Wait a minute, rumour of a tie-in for a video game-based movie releasing two years from now. Gee, thanks for the confidential tip. Well, there it is anyway.

Disney Interactive Starting New Tron Game While It Lays Off Staff [Variety]

Having seen Tron at the drive-in as a wee lad, part of a double feature—it was paired with the pimps and prostitute-filled Vice Squad!—the craptastic Disney flick will always have a place in my heart. The fan-made version, a decidedly lo-fi affair, only makes the whole thing more endearing. It’s cute as a button and makes me wish I had a copy of Tron to watch right now. It also makes me wish I had my own lightcycle.

The Hollywood Reporter previously wrote that Joseph Kosinski, currently said to be working on a Logan’s Run remake, will be helming the project and that Lost writers Eddie Kitsis and Adam Horowitz would write the script. We just hope they haven’t abandoned Tron’s spandex roots. That, and that the discs are still deadly.

Disney Plans A Bumper 2011 [Dark Horizons - thanks, Matty!]

Larry Hryb points out that Omega Five and Tron will be hitting Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday. Omega Five will be 800 points, while Tron will be 400. Gamerscoreblog also posted up this short phone interview with Hudson which also shows you some Omega Five gameplay.

This week on arcade: Omega Five and Tron [Major Nelson]

Still, it’s difficult to see Tron as a remake. Either the film sticks to the original 80s-rrific setting, or it’s updated with Tron being some hero in GTAIV with Jeff Bridges participating in time races to collect prostitutes. One approach seems disingenuous while the other seems, quite simply, horrible.

Then again, Tron was a pretentiously bad movie redeemed by incredible special effects and wonderful art direction. So it’s not exactly Citizen Kane 2 that we’re talking about here.

New ‘Tron’ races on [thehollywoodreporter]

Obviously LOTR was in many ways a dream proposition…[but] when we started the project, everyone was saying, Peter Jackson??

But then…

[Producers] brought up to EA 16 minutes of the movie…After they saw that…everything had changed.

Lord of the Rings wasn’t a multi-billion franchise yet; it wasn’t a sure thing for publishers to bet on. But the problems with the licence ended there. As for TRON…

25 years ago, the original movie Tron was pitched to us. We go up to BV studios…they had this promo why we should pay the rights for Tron. “Tron is going to revolutionise the way movies are made”

And Daglow’s team was sold. Money, resources, whatever the team needed was theirs.

9 months later when the movie came out. The script wasn’t very good. They ran out of time. It wasn’t supposed to be black and white. Ultimately our team broke our hearts trying to build those games. We had no support. We were ignored. That can and still does happen today.

Not one moment of special effects was added to the film over those 9 months. Why? Daglow responds: because BV already had their pay cheque virtually guaranteed—meaning they’d innovated enough.

And you thought movie licences made things easy! Ha!