I’m an enormous fan of the Tron franchise. I’ve seen Tron and Tron: Legacy extra occasions than I can rely. I’ve performed quite a few Tron video video games, and using Tron: Lightcycle Run at Walt Disney World was a virtually spiritual expertise for me. I used to be annoyed for years that no sequel to Tron: Legacy ever materialized. And I used to be actually much more annoyed when a 3rd Tron film, Tron: Ares, was lastly introduced.
Whereas I’m excited to see Tron: Ares, I’m nonetheless a bit aggravated that the film isn’t a direct sequel to Tron: Legacy. So far as we all know, Jeff Bridges is the one actor from Legacy to return, and the brand new movie takes the sequence in a brand new path. It received’t deal a lot, if in any respect, with the occasions of Legacy, however it’s additionally not a whole reboot. CinemaBlend attended a set go to in the course of the manufacturing of Ares, the place (by way of Comicbook.com) producer Jeff Springer stated…
We’re not telling that story proper now…in deciding to maneuver ahead to a brand new story. However we’re not undoing that both, so it’s nonetheless on the market. However this story is about, like, by way of it, as a result of, yeah, it’s simply, it’s cleaner to inform. We’re mainly beginning in the identical house the place it’s a personality coming to this world, and what is going to his expertise be by way of this story?
Tron: Legacy ended with Quorra, performed by Olivia Wilde, a personality from The Grid, making the leap into the actual world. Ares will use that idea as its start line. Jared Leto’s Ares additionally enters the actual world from the Grid. Within the Tron: Ares trailer, we additionally see Lightcycles chopping by way of police automobiles.
The truth that the occasions of Tron: Legacy aren’t being undone at the least retains the door open a crack for a real sequel to Legacy, or at the least a follow-up to Ares that ties within the occasions of the primary two Tron movies extra straight. I would definitely like to see that, and Springer is obvious that such a factor is at the least theoretically attainable. He continued…
And so it’s not meant to undo the top of Legacy. It’s simply not persevering with that story. It’s nonetheless on this planet. It nonetheless occurred. We’ll simply say that….It nonetheless occurred. And there’s nothing we’re doing to say that it didn’t. And there’s issues within the DNA that hold it alive, even in our story.
As an enormous Tron fan, I’m excited to see Ares when it opens subsequent month. I hope it’s nice in its personal proper and a sufficiently big success that we don’t want to attend one other decade or two for an additional sequel. I simply hope that ultimately a kind of motion pictures continues the story that Tron: Legacy left behind.