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Sequel to TRON Coming Down the Wire

Posted by michael on from the lightcycle dept.

farrellj writes: "According to SF Wire, TRON is going to be released in a 20th anniversary DVD release...and they are working on a sequal, TRON 2.0. The DVD will be released Jan 15, 2002. There is also a new game in development too!" The rumors have been circulating for years. Maybe they'll get Lucy Lawless to demonstrate the proper application of a spinning disk.

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  1. Re:NO!! For the love of Linus NO!!!! by Minupla · · Score: 3

    Wargames caused me more grief in my early years then I care to remember...

    You see, I was 12, and had a modem. Everyone was telling my parents that I was going to start WWIII, because you could hack the military with modems.

    Give me a break, please? It's amazing what ppl will believe.

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  2. Tron games by AirLace · · Score: 4
    For those who can't wait for the official release, there are some great GPL'd tron games out there, based on the lightcycle scene:
    • glTron - Probably the most mature 3D tron game. Features network playing and themes
    • Obviously Multiplayer Tron - New project, really unstable.
    • Armagetron - Came out when development of glTron became very slow. Best multiplayer support, but glTron's graphics are better.

    Wonder if the makers of the official Tron game will go after the developers of these games for trademark infringement. It's a crazy world.
  3. I can see it now... by bflong · · Score: 3
    --Opening scene--

    Our hero is using PSDoom to "mannage" a Linux workstation that has been infected with a twisted copy of the MCP. The virus was installed onto a Windows 2000 box on the network by the latest Service Pack. Suddenly, a voice is heard from the workstations speakers.

    MCP Virus:
    I see you are not running Windows on this workstation. Come to the dark side.

    Our Hero:
    Never! Just wait till I get the BFG! Then I'll show you whos boss!

    MCP Virus:
    So... You like to play games, do you?

    -- Our hero notices that his mouse, a Micorsoft Optical mouse, starts to pull away from his hand. It flips over, and shoots him with a strange light from its optical window. Our hero finds himself in a place unfamiliar to him. He sees hundreds of Linux sysadmins being held up to the walls of a circular room. They are being scaned by some kind of energy. Something pulls at him, and he is thrown toward one of the empty spots on the wall and held there.

    MCP Virus:
    HAHAHA!!!
    Now you will know my true purpose! I will drain all the knowledge you have and use it for my own evil purpose! I will be [long pause. Drumroll] Windows XP Server!

    Voice from off camera:
    Not if I have anything to do with it!

    -- In walks a short, fat, black and white bird with a yellow beak, wielding a BFG. Camera focuses on him, then the BFG.

    Voice from near dead Linux Systems admin off camera:
    We're saved! It's Kernel Tux!

    -- Uh... He blasts the hell out of everything, the workstation and the world are saved from the horrable evil.

    Damn. It's way past my bedtime...

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  4. Tron, the flop by Animats · · Score: 3
    Tron was such a flop at the box office that it was generally considered to have set back the Hollywood end of computer graphics by five years or so. Usually, only successful movies are remade.

    I always expected Burroughs to sue them. The Burroughs mainframe operating system was called the Master Control Program.

  5. Misleading by Nastard · · Score: 3

    Lisberger has proposed a sequel to Disney, and is working on the script, but there is nothing in the works, yet. It's sad that todays journalism allows for a "maybe" to be treated as fact (the Indy 4 stories).

    That said, it would be great if they actually got this going.

  6. TROFF? AOL already beat 'em to it by yerricde · · Score: 3

    TROFF: The story of a computer program transported to the real world.

    I see you've grasped the true origin of the name of TRON (trace on). But the story of a computer program embodied in a real world entity has already been done... by Warner Bros. Pictures, a division of AOL.

    A.I.: The Story of a Robot Who Is Even More Obsessed With Pinocchio Than I Am

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  7. What's the plot? by GrouchoMarx · · Score: 3
    What's the plot going to be? Instead of actors in body suits pretending to run around inside a tape-driven mainframe, will we have actors in body suits running around the Internet? I can see it now...

    Tron: Uri, you made a wrong turn! That's a Windows 2000 server!
    Uri: AAIIIEEE!!!!
    Tron: No! Uri! NOOOOOO!!!!!

    The MCP, of course, has been replaced with a virus that is spreading and bringing down the entire computer infrastructure of the world. It will be defeated in a huge on-screen battle with thousands of little CGI critters who are all in one place for some reason, despite being contrary to the very nature of computer software.

    Of course, since the first Tron was one of the pioneers in computer graphics in movies, nothing short of Final Fantasy-level graphics will do 2.0 justice. Unless, they decide to save money and bring out the body suits again...

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  8. DVD edition = soundtrack on CD? by gilroy · · Score: 4

    I wonder if this means Disney will finally get off theif duffs and authorize Wendy Carlos to do a remastered CD version of the soundtrack. Tron had a, well, different sound to it which I happened to have enjoyed. Yet despite the techno-intense nature of the movie, the music has never been released in digital. :(

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  9. Don't buy it! by SocialWorm · · Score: 4
    I find it ironic that a movie that touches, albiet lightly, on corporate culture should be released in the format of corporate control. DVDs from the big movie industry players are pure economic poison, regardless of their content -- not unlike an toxin-infused envelope. This movie may be marketed as Tron, but it should carry a warning that it's really a vote against freedom, a vote for the DMCA, and, by association, a vote to keep Dimitry in prison.

    Standing up to these megalomanaics is worthy of a movie in and of itself, but if we don't, we could all find ourselves against the powerful systems, both legal and computer, of the MIAA and its allies.

    Besides, do you really want to support these people in their quest to make Tron 2.0, which has "An ambitious hacker transports himself into cyberspace to pull off the ultimate hack." for a tagline? Even if nothing else written here convinces you to boycott the release of Tron on DVD, that almost certainly should. Yuck, awful -- just what we need, another bad "hacker flick" (almost certainly what's intended, given today's climate).

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  10. A big budget might ruin it by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5
    One thing that made movies like the original Star Wars, Mad Max and Tron stand out was the spartan ambiance that came with a (relatively) low budget. As it happened, that ambiance worked well with the screenplay and acting for these movies; that's why these movies are still talked about while dozens of others from that time are forgotten.

    Twenty or so years later, they redo Star Wars (largely on the same planet) with a big budget and too many visual distractions and not enough focus on the story... and it doesn't work. There was nothing special about it compared to all of the other computer-effects scifi movies out there today. I fear the same thing will happen to this sequel.