Nearly thirty years after the original, Disney released “TRON Legacy” in 2010 which came about thanks to years of pushing from fans calling for it.
The movie pulled in an impressive $400 million worldwide, but with a $170 million budget and mixed reviews, it wasn’t enough of a success to guarantee a franchise and so plans for a third film didn’t come to fruition.
Recently though, the film’s director Joesph Kosinski, who also helms the upcoming “Top Gun: Maverick,” reignited talk of a sequel in a recent interview with ComicBook.com, saying there’s still interest:
“There’s always been an interest since Legacy [for a sequel]. There’s always been talk and murmuring of doing another and continuing the story. I was in China a few years ago and saw them building the TRON ride in Shanghai, which, apparently, is pretty amazing, I would love to experience that at some point.
I think it’s still a nice jewel in the crown of Disney IP and I think there are fans and people petitioning and pushing to continue it inside the halls of Disney. So I think it could happen. Like anything, it just needs the right confluence of… it’s all about timing and the right elements and everything’s got to come together for a movie to happen.
I think it’s possible and I think it’s worthy of it. I think there’s enough ideas in the franchise, and the fact that it is so unique and nothing else looks or sounds like it, that TRON story. There is, I think, a future for the franchise and I hope they keep making them.”
Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde and Jeff Bridges starred in the 2010 film in which Sam Flynn enters the world of a computer system in order to find his long missing father.
