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Tron 3 Is Cancelled
Dave Knott writes: Tron 3 won't be coming to a theater near you. Disney had been developing a sequel to Tron:Legacy since the movie, made for $170 million, grossed $400 million worldwide. But now they have chosen not to move forward with a third installment in the sci-fi series, sources say. "Disney has had strong success with its live-action properties recently, including Maleficent and this year's Cinderella, which earned $527.4 million worldwide. But it recently had a stumble with the $180 million live-action film Tomorrowland, which underperformed at the box office this past weekend with a $33 million U.S. debut."
Too much money wasted on big name actors and advertising. Ludicrous story. It goes on and on.
I do think it is too early for another Tron sequel though. If they had made one one year after the last one it would have been ok but not now.
Tron was a great sequel and I've heard good things about Tomorrowland, but they'd rather make things like princess movies. They're Disney, after all.
When can we expect yet another cute puppy-centered live movie?
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Let Flynn and Quora ride off into the sunrise, and let it be OVER. Stories end. How about you come up with new ones?
guess I'll just have to wait another 30 odd years for another one
will be highly upset.
Wait... there was a Tron 2?
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
I got it for two bucks at my local Grocery Outlet :p
I thought it was an excellent music video, with some slow parts.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I just watched the movie. It was preachy and moralizing. Other than that, it had more plot holes that San Andreas.
Tron gets reworked into a Once Upon a Time plot. gratuitous cleavage costumes and all
Quit f'ng up franchises that don't belong to you!
That says it I guess. I really didn't know.
Tron 2 was one of the best, if not the best 3D movie I've seen. In an IMAX cinema, it ruled.
I have to agree with this decision, since the trailer they did release looked amazingly bad and amateurish. They leads don't seem to be good actors, have no charisma and no chemistry, what little dialog seemed uninteresting and full of cliches, and the scenes seemed badly done.
I watched this with a friend, and at the end she went "Wait, that was a real trailer? I thought it was some sort of ad!"
If that was what the film was going to be like, then best it's dead.
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Here's another movie that was said to be a disappointment in its first weekend US domestic box office and that never reached number one in that market. But it did fine overall, helped considerably I suspect because it managed $121+ million USD in China. What is also interesting is this movie actually removed all references to China's space program between the rewrites of its script, and at least in the version shown in the US, had multiple displays of the US flag on the astronauts' space suits, and even showed in the final scene a US flag flying over the new settlement's base camp.
That game got Tron much better than the 2nd movie did.
Having the "grid" be this walled garden didnt explore how the whole world is interconnected now. It was a terribly missed opportunity.
the target demo doesn't pay to watch reality.
...destroyer of culture and creator of consumer culture. This news makes no difference, I for one will never give money (knowingly) to anything financially connected to Disney. Disney deserves to burn.
Yes, movies are now called properties, and people who watch them are inventory for the demand-side (advertisers). Welcome to dystopia.
I understand that there are reasons in the advertising world to use terms like 'inventory' to mean people, but can we keep that out of the real world, please?
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1 was funny and nifty back in the day. 2 was pretentious, dull, half baked.
There was another Tron mostly nobody saw, an animated series called Tron: Uprising which ran on various Disney cable networks.
It was.. excellent. Beautiful art, great music (improved versions of Daft Punk plus new stuff), really good casting and decent writing and plotting. All in all, one of the best animated anything that the American animation industry has yet produced. It was rather similar to an anime. Nobody would have been surprised if it had in fact come from Japan, but it didn't: it was Disney.
And of course a show like this made no sense to Disney so they killed it after one season. Boom.
Highly recommended viewing. Only 19 episodes so go for broke and watch them all at once. It will probably make you sad this was the last Tron, perhaps forever.
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Well also consider they only get like 1/4 of that money from China; and unless they want their movie to count against the foreign import quota they need to hire a Chinese production team to add in Chinese actors.
I liked Tron: Legacy but I don't think a 3rd movie ads value. I saw the preview for Tron 3 and the script looked shitty.
IE. Nobody wants to see Tron costumes LARPing in the real world. If I want to see girls wearing(non-revealing) EL wire catsuits in real life I'll go to DEF CON 23.
All Obama's fault.
Saw it Saturday, loved it, but I think it did badly because its a positive movie and that doesn't work in sci-fi. This idea of a future that could be positive is the opposite of what people who watch science fiction expect.
How many sci-fi movies contain the word "dystopian" in their description!?
Now compare that to how many contain the word 'uptopian'!
So the audience that want to see positive things, is not the sci-fi audience, its more the cartoon audience.
We don't need a Tron 3, 4, or 5.
We didn't need a Pirates 4 or 5 either.
I'd rather watch my old Brainstorm DVD over and over until my eyes bleed than give another dollar to the mouse. They can suck it.
Perhaps, or maybe it was a bold move to address the consequent ethical and philosophical questions implied by the first film and in a way accessible to a younger audience. Grown geeks (and I count myself in that number) were a built-in audience for the nostalgia value. Tron: Legacy was not just an attempt to get those dollars but to re-boot the franchise with a younger audience. While I rather enjoyed it despite being flawed, I do tend to agree with the earlier statement that the timing was off and the third may be just too late to market (to achieve the goals of re-booting).
... Sigh. Read the synopsis of Tomorrow land and you'll see that whomever greenlit it was tripping balls when they okayed that project.
Terrible. That was Batman Forever levels of stupid.
Tron 3 could be good. The tron movies are simple action fun.
Preach at me in the dumbest way possible though... and I'm changing the channel.
I don't know... I think a lot of the people that write these scripts should just write art house movies that no one watches. Just fill your movie with more kids with cancer-aids and crying puppies.
We don't need any more Day After Tomorrow bullshit. Just make me an action movie with some big Michael Bay explosions and shut up.
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I think people hated Tron because they expected more of it. Graphics & soundtrack were beautiful and it had so much potential. Acting...well it tanked. I think we all wanted more speed bikes and more disk battles and Jeff Bridges being the zen master was a bit more like the Dude (from the Big Lebowsky). However, if Disney would actually give it to a good director and writers and take it darker with humor similar to like what Ben Browder did in Farscape, Tron could be a very good series but maybe they should just send it to Starz to make a 10 part series. Seems like no one wants too actually work at making movies anymore especially good scifi because they are afraid it costs too much. Seems like Disney's plan is if they can't sell the merchandise then it is not worth making the movie(s) since that is where they make their money. You can't really sell too many Tron costumes like you can with Marvel or Starwars.
How good did they think it was going to do against San Andreas? I mean, I know everybody here likes to pretend they hate action movies and CGI flatulence, but lots of lowest common denominator people are more likely to see San Andreas than Tomorrowland.
As it happens, I went and saw a matinee with a friend, and watched San Andreas, and it actually wasn't bad. I suggested he call his wife (who was in L.A.) and tell her to go see it.
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Tron 2 only made them $230 M plus profits, Clearly not enough. Wish I could buy Disney and start firing people. A profitable franchise ignored, J.J. Abrahams set to ruin another one, Marvel's comics left to have their sales halved. There are a lot of things going wrong at Disney right now and even their lack of competition won't be enough to stop them from feeling it eventually.
Yep, Disney is betting big on China becoming a huge emerging market for their entertainment. It's almost as if they were about to...
Oh yeah... next year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
"will be highly upset." What's that?
Oh, I get it. Another user that thinks the subject and incomplete comment make up a complete post. I don't know who started that practice, but it should stop.
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The whole premise is that the Earth is unsavable and only intelligent people are the ones that can save us. Seriously?? GTFO!
Both messages are horrible and just plain disgusting.
Make new laws to punish things that might be hiding all the piracy!
But where else would you spend 180mil and get 33mil back in two days when you start selling?
I really couldn't care less about another Tron movie, but could we get another soundtrack from Daft Punk, please? That was really the only good thing that came from Tron Legacy.
Now how are we going to ride off into Valhalla all shiny and chr^W neon?!!
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I don't know who started that practice, but it should stop.
YMBNH: It's been happening since time was time. It's really only a problem because the subject is not shown directly above the comment, so when you C&P you get a header you have to excise. You are right, it should stop, but since the practice of doing it here is probably about as old as the subject line... give-u up.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Why should it cost $180M to make a fucking movie? When it costs so much to make, no fucking wonder it so easily becomes a losing dud.
Stop spending $180M making fucking movies already.
What a fucked up society we live in where "celebrity" is king and real heros (the STEM people that actually productive and amazing things for society) get jack fuck all. No wonder we are going to hell in a handbasket.
Given how good the soundtrack is, just leave the concept with the Daft Punk boys and I'll take a new album any time. That said, I definitely enjoyed Tron Legacy but the soundtrack really made it.
A third installment perhaps in a darker anime series akin to the Batman DC comics would be a refreshing take on the concept, or actually a full reboot. Too soon maybe.
I don't know how many other parents did this, but we showed our daughter the original Tron when she was a pre-teen, and she loved it so much that she was really looking forward to the Tron sequel, once it was announced. She kept track of when it was supposed to come out and made us promise to take her to see it. Then, we took her to Disneyland when she was around 15 and was so thrilled that she got to ring in the new year "on the grid", thanks to Disney having a Tron based section of their park that wasn't part of Disneyland proper. When she got home, she told absolutely everyone she knew, very proudly, that she had been there, and had even played video games in "Flynn's Arcade", which all of her friends thought was really cool, as they also knew about Tron. She's grown up, now, but if Tron 3 came out, we would make sure to see that one together, too. So, not only was my generation filled with Tron fans, so were some of the next generation, and if Tron 3 did come out, you can bet that some of those from the 90's generation would share it with their own kids, giving them three generations of fans. Unfortunately, she just texted me about how upset she was with the cancellation of Tron 3. With technology the way it is, now, it had the potential to be one of the best sci-fi movies of this era. Personally, I'm extremely disappointed myself, and if they cancelled it because some other movie they made didn't do well at the box office, I have to admit that I'd find that a complete bulls#!& excuse. Tron is a separate franchise, with its own following. I really hope that Disney changes its mind about this.
Everyone knows that Tomorrow Land is a rave. It was a let down when I saw the movie :( no beatz!
I would watch Tron3 it it was just for the music.
Tron 2 bombed because the writers and producers understood that the original Tron had a following, but they don't understand why. They still don't. They left out most of the details that made the original Tron awesome. They completely failed to appease the Tron fans, and they failed to please the general populace too.
Computers were new when Tron came out. It was intense to even be a "user" and many computer users were also computer scientists, which is why in the game a "user" was revered like a demigod. The society in Tron reflected the geek society in the real world.
Now the "user" is anybody. The demigods would be the computer scientists, Network Engineers, and Administrators. The users would be pretty much drones now, controlled in most ways by the demigods.
Where was this in Tron 2? It was just absent. This is just one example of how they completely missed by lack of understanding.
What does Tomorrowland eating a big one in the box office got to do with Tron 3?
I mean come on! Tomorrowland has George Clooney! He raped the Batman series and it took a few years before the public recovered from the shock and enjoyed Batman Begins without much PTSD. So why should it come as a shock Tomorrowland was going to flop? Why punish us who liked Tron?
Yep, Disney is betting big on China becoming a huge emerging market for their entertainment. It's almost as if they were about to...
Oh yeah... next year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Disney, like every major studio, is looking to expand into new or underserved territories, partly to make up for the loss of revenue from the home video market.
This is unfortunate news. I'm still going to keep my fingers crossed for the new Star Wars. We will see.
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