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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.
Maybe there'll be a TRON III - The Search for TRON 2.
I might actually go see that.
It looks amateurish because it was made by amateurs. It's a fan-made trailer. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt40...
I'm sorry, but your opinion seems to be wrong.
at the end she went "Wait, that was a real trailer? I thought it was some sort of ad!"
Context is everything.
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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.
Trailers are ads. For movies.
the target demo doesn't pay to watch reality.
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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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.
... 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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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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No, it bombed because there was very little Tomorrowland in Tomorrowland. The entire screentime TL gets is what, maybe 15 minutes? Simply put, the trailers were completely at odds with what the film actually does.
Don't forget that Avengers:Age of Ultron is still in theaters, and Mad Max opened the same time. Too much known competition for an unknown property unless it's something that will totally blow peoples minds, which are exceedingly rare.
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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" However, if Disney would actually give it to a good director and writers and take it darker..."
No. No. No.
Enough with the silly darker trend. Have you actuallyseen the original Tron? You know with the talking silly Bit in it? It's adventure certainly, but it's not dark. Tron 2 went more philosophical and arguably darker as well, and I happen to really like the film, but I would argue that's also part of what killed it.
Everyone time I hear of a reboot it's "we'll take the original and make it grittier", or "we'll take the original and make it darker", or sometimes we're treated to both gritter and darker at the same time. Bah. Enough of this - it's an adolescant's version of what makes a grown-up film. Give me varied films with a mix of emotions in them please. Relentless dark and misery is not what I want to be offered all of the time.
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.
To add insult to injury, the game is a Disney property. Disney owns the plot of Tron 2.0 that they ignored in favor of flavorless eye candy.
*SPOILERS*
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The game's plot includes features like the internet, making the Recognizers into network packets (train cars) for some nice nostalgia, bits*, trying to survive in a PDA with limited RAM, email scripts being corrupted into virus spewing zombies, and an evil mega-corp planning to use the digitization tech to digitize their own paramilitary operatives into the grid so that they can literally brute force attack their enemies' computers from the inside.
*to me, the biggest example that the TRON Legacy writers were not TRON fans is that CLU2's yes-man wasn't a bit. A bit that just says yes, reluctantly says no, is destroyed, and another bit takes it place to say "yes" would satisfy nostalgia, show us CLU2's personality, and provide a little color to an otherwise bland movie.
Now how are we going to ride off into Valhalla all shiny and chr^W neon?!!
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Or the less then 10 minutes screen time in a 2:10 minute movie the last Godzilla got. Hell The mutos got more screen time??lol
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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.'"
Everyone time I hear of a reboot it's "we'll take the original and make it grittier"
Actually, Tron is the one place where that might actually make sense. All their technology is vector-based, right? What if they got infected by a bitmap virus? You could have some really bitchin' visuals.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
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?
No, it bombed because there was very little Tomorrowland in Tomorrowland. The entire screentime TL gets is what, maybe 15 minutes? Simply put, the trailers were completely at odds with what the film actually does.
The only two good sequences in the movie (The Tomorrowland pin "commercial" and the home invasion at Clooney's house) are in two trailers. Everything else is seriously, seriously flawed.
That may be a case, but Godzilla had just about the right amount of total monster smash. Monsters smashing things over and over for hours on end... not interesting. You need a lot more than that.
Filming was originally supposed to start in October 2015, so it would be impossible to have a trailer that contained scenes from the movie.
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.
Everyone time I hear of a reboot it's "we'll take the original and make it grittier"
Actually, Tron is the one place where that might actually make sense. All their technology is vector-based, right? What if they got infected by a bitmap virus? You could have some really bitchin' visuals.
Tron is interesting because the "look" of the world, that is how much you can see, how clean it is, and the complexity of the objects, are reflections of how powerful the running computer is. In the case of Tron, the world was based on the 1982 hardware it had available. For Tron 2, it was a 1989 computer running the grid.
I disagree. reason? Godzilla is the star of the movie. And the 10 minutes was more then the actual amount of screen time. It was a total ripoff. the only thing making it worth while was they did a great job recreating him this time, the last Godzilla movie was a joke as well, just an over grown T-rex.
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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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