Tron: Ares (2025)

[OrlandoEastwood]

http://www.empireonline.com/news/feed.asp?NID=27523

Tron Legacy is still months away from hitting our screens, but in a big vote of confidence in the film’s likely success, Disney has hired the film’s writers to start work on a sequel script.

Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, who have usually been spending their days writing episodes of Lost, will be locked in a spooky old arcade bought specially for the process and told they can’t come out until they’ve finished at least three drafts and found the kill screen on Missile Command. Okay, not all of that is true, but they have definitely been hired to write a Tron sequel.

Those two are the only people involved right now, especially since a greenlight for the sequel is a long way away – and is dependent on Legacy being a hit.

But Disney has retained options on the likes of Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde, and while director Joseph Kosinski’s development slate is filling up with other Mouse House remake projects, we’re sure the company would be happy for him to delay those to make another virtual adventure.

There is naturally no inkling of what the plot will be, though the world of this year's film has been built to include future stories and according to the Heat Vision Blog, the writers are dreaming up trilogy ideas.

The early start means that, should Legacy hit as big as we think it might, Disney would be ready to start gearing up production on a follow-up quickly, with a likely 2012/2013 release target.

Awesome.

[Moviefan2k4]

NICE.........I definitely approve!

[WyldeMan45]

This isn't the least bit surprising. It looks like it could be a massive franchise, so why not?

[Foggy]

Cool, I'll watch it!

[kdo]

Don't get me wrong, I love the original "Tron," and I do look forward to "Legacy"but prepping a 3rd film before the sequel has even been released...Don't know if that's a good idea...

[doctorD]

Awesome. At least this one won't come 20+ years later.

[Sussudio]

Originally Posted by kdo

Don't get me wrong, I love the original "Tron," and I do look forward to "Legacy"but prepping a 3rd film before the sequel has even been released...Don't know if that's a good idea...

Well re-read part of the article

Those two are the only people involved right now, especially since a greenlight for the sequel is a long way away – and is dependent on Legacy being a hit.

[tron3]

SPOILER ALERT: Don't read unless you have seen the movie.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE: I have no knowlede of a script. This premise is my own personal idea and not to be used without permission and compensation: Steven Lisberger, I'm waiting to hear from you, buddy.

Synopsis: Having returned from the digital world with Quorra, Sam is not content in having come so close to saving his father only to lose him. He copies an earlier backup file onto his PED (Personal Electronic Device) (as we see at the end of Legacy) and restores it onto a newer, more powerful server. He returns in a second attempt to save his father who remembers nothing. Finding himself "back in digital time" Kevin Flynn checks the time logs to see Sam is telling the truth. Now Sam not only has to save his father but finds himself in the middle of a genocide war where he must save the ISO's from extinction.

But in putting the digital landscape onto a new server Sam changes everything which benefits from the increase power. Especially CLU who is growing exponentionally in intelligence and power - making him virtually unstoppable as he evolves into a new MCP. Now Sam, Flynn and the ISO's must fight together to save themselves, and make it a free system again. Only with the help of Rinzler / TRON do they have a chance. Sam also discovers that his mother Laura (Cindy Morgan) still lives as a program (before she was killed in the ISO wars) and wants to save her as well.


Potential script snippit:

Flynn: You shouldn't have come back, Sam. I'm afraid....

Sam: Afraid of what?

Flynn: Don't you see? By restoring this world you are rewriting and changing history. Things happen the way they do for a reason. You upset the balance of power.

Sam: So? All I want is to get you out of here, and I'll switch it off. I can't lose you again, dad.

Flynn: Sam, when I created Clu, he was created in my own image. His program was designed to use a percentage of system resources so he could closely emulate me. Given the technology of the second server he could never evolve past a certain point. It was just enough so he could learn to turn on me. You realize I cannot allow this.

Sam: Can not allow what?

Flynn: Digital Armageddon. Clu was based on a server 20 years old. Now you put us - HIM - on a new server with 100x the power. His algorithm will adapt and grow exponentionally to utilize the extra power. Now his ability to evolve surpasses any Program on The Grid.

Sam (Stunned at the realization.): Or any User.

Flynn: This is the MCP all over again. "You're really messing up my Zen thing, man!"


Potential? I think so. It's a prequel that plays out like a sequel. Because history will change, there is no assurance of it being predictable. Just digital blood and guts in an all out war to save digital-kind. Plus we get to see some REAL tank action.

[Miadaskate]

I give you credit for coming up with such an idea so quickly, but you overlooked a very major point from the second film :

Quorra is the last of her kind. She IS the last ISO.

[Jumpman]

Quorra is being set up as the "messiah"...but of which world? Considering the implications of the ISO's that Flynn described and the unknown outcome of the Grid, it'll be interesting to see where they take the story.

For Sam, it'll be interesting to see what he does with the Grid. Does he, on purpose or accidently or by theft (from a villainous character) integrate the Grid into our real world digital reality (the net...)...and if so, how does the Grid evolve?

There are numerous ways to tackle a sequel to Legacy. It has nuggets all over the place...Dillinger Jr. being one of them...

[tron3]

Originally Posted by Miadaskate

I give you credit for coming up with such an idea so quickly, but you overlooked a very major point from the second film :

Quorra is the last of her kind. She IS the last ISO.

You are overlooking that Sam is using a backup file, not the time at the point of exit. If he uses the last world, his father is already gone. By using a backup file, everything is still intact. Thus, a backup file from one day prior can equate months or years in the digital world. In other words, he restores the digital world at the time the ISO's are still in the process of being eliminated - thus the war is still happening.

[Miadaskate]

Originally Posted by tron3

You are overlooking that Sam is using a backup file, not the time at the point of exit. If he uses the last world, his father is already gone. By using a backup file, everything is still intact. Thus, a backup file from one day prior can equate months or years in the digital world. In other words, he restores the digital world at the time the ISO's are still in the process of being eliminated - thus the war is still happening.

No.

[Offender_Mullet]

Ah crapnuts, way to use spoiler tags guys.

[Walts Ghost]

Tron 3 is happening. I know more than I what I heard from Bruce, but I'm not in a position I say too much. What he told me was a confirmation I heard from another source. 2014 release date. That's all I can say. Hope that helps.

[Drewza89]

Originally Posted by Walts Ghost

Tron 3 is happening. I know more than I what I heard from Bruce, but I'm not in a position I say too much. What he told me was a confirmation I heard from another source. 2014 release date. That's all I can say. Hope that helps.

Good to hear. Will Kosinski return to the director's chair? What ever happened to his remake of The Black Hole?

[Monkey]

Originally Posted by Walts Ghost

Tron 3 is happening. I know more than I what I heard from Bruce, but I'm not in a position I say too much. What he told me was a confirmation I heard from another source. 2014 release date. That's all I can say. Hope that helps.

Daft Punk better be back!

[KilloWertz]

Originally Posted by Monkey

Daft Punk better be back!

Agreed, even if the story spends more time outside of The Grid than they did in Tron: Legacy (given the setup we were left with at the end).

[Snicket]

Originally Posted by Walts Ghost

Tron 3 is happening. I know more than I what I heard from Bruce, but I'm not in a position I say too much. What he told me was a confirmation I heard from another source. 2014 release date. That's all I can say. Hope that helps.

....It's not watergate. I'm sure Disney has bigger things to do than scan the internets searching for leaks (leaks that have already been "confirmed" by it's actors) by its parks employees.

As long as you did not sign an NDA it's fine.

I have posted insider info about Disney's projects before.

[Walts Ghost]

Originally Posted by Snicket

....It's not watergate. I'm sure Disney has bigger things to do than scan the internets searching for leaks (leaks that have already been "confirmed" by it's actors) by its parks employees.

As long as you did not sign an NDA it's fine.

I have posted insider info about Disney's projects before.

You'd be surprised, man. Disney is a big company, and they watch closely. Some people I know at the parks learned that the hard way. I'm just careful at what I post.

[Snicket]

Originally Posted by Walts Ghost

You'd be surprised, man. Disney is a big company, and they watch closely. Some people I know at the parks learned that the hard way. I'm just careful at what I post.

As long as no NDA was signed you are under no obligation to keep 3rd party secrets.

Back in 2007-09 Disney Interactive Studios was working on a new video game franchise called "Jabberwocky" It was essentially a story about a war between humans and monsters, based in part about the conflicts in the middle east. In the story a young boy meets a creature called a "Jabberwocky" and finds that they are not so bad and the two work together to end the war (in a nutshell). This was well before How to Train your Dragon mind you.

It was first developed as a kids game but then was reworked to be more mature, I saw a fait bit of concept art and it looked amazing.

Disney loved the idea, in fact they were planning in the long term for it by laying out plans for 7 sequels, an amusement park ride and a film franchise.

Then after a year or two Disney up and decided that the game would not hit its target demographic and scrapped the entire project. Now all that studio does is make lame mobile games, a lot of people left the company after that.

Disney is so ADD these days, I hope they don't up and decide to shelf Tron until later. Actors can say a film is happening, because as far as they know, it is. But its the suits who make the final call.