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Disney Plans Tron Remake

Posted by michael on from the milking-it-dry dept.

blkmagic writes "Sci Fi Wire is reporting that Disney will remake Tron. The original article was in Variety, but requires a pay subscription, unless you want to sign up for a 14-day free trial. The article didn't mention what stage they're at, but sounds like they're changing the story a bit (surprise). I loved the original when I was younger (and still watch it again once in a while), so I don't know how I feel about this one!"

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  1. Poor choice for a remake. by slusich · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In my opinion, a lot of the appeal of the first movie was in the "Wow" factor of it. Computers were not nearly as ubiquitous as they are today. Video games were a huge rage, but still mostly confined to the arcade.
    With all of the CGI enhanced movies being done today, great special effects won't have the same impact.
    There will certainly be some draw based on nostalgia, however I think that will lead mostly to disappointment.

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    1. Re:Poor choice for a remake. by Dogtanian · · Score: 4, Insightful

      In my opinion, a lot of the appeal of the first movie was in the "Wow" factor of it.

      You put your finger on it. I remember hearing on the Tron DVD that they were wanting to do "Tron 2" (as a movie) and thinking "what is the point?"

      Tron was never a great movie; visually it was outstanding (I don't want to repeat myself, so click here), but if they were to do a sequel it would have to replicate the visual impact. The still images of the proposed "Tron 2" looked like pretty computer graphics that could have been done anywhere.

      A remake or a sequel would have to try very hard to do justice to the original and be fresh and innovative; the best way to do that would be to do some great visuals, combine it with a more sophisticated (for todays' audiences) computer-based plot, and create something like.... 'The Matrix'. Oops.

      I agree 100%. Tron was a landmark movie in some ways, but things have moved on, and I'm not sure what they want to get out of this. People *will* be disappointed, and kids will wonder what the deal is.

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  2. ...hm by JaffaKREE · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You know what'd be crazy ?

    A new movie. Like with new ideas. That'd be crazy.

  3. And CGI? by fisheye1969 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I guess the graphics will be updated so much so that they won't look as fantastically "false" as they did originally. It was a subject so well suited to early CGI, that the new stuff doesn't cut it. Maybe this is one case where better CGI is actually worse?

    Will Jeff Bridges be in it?

  4. Enough with the remakes already! by OmegaBlac · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why don't they make a sequel? There is no reason to go back and muck around with a film that doesn't need mucking around with.

  5. Not man into hell, but god into earth. by Pike · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "In a lot of ways, ('Tron') was a movie about a man venturing into hell. Our job will be to keep the humanity as he ventures into an unreal world."

    Actually, in many more ways it was a movie about a god venturing incarnate into the world.

    "Do you believe in the users?"

    "Of course! I mean, if there are no users, then...who wrote me?"

    The oh-so transparent metaphors of atheism versus belief in a higher power are draped all over the movie.