Disney Plans Tron Remake

blkmagic writes "Sci Fi Wire is reporting that Disney will remake Tron. The original article was in Variety, but requires a pay subscription, unless you want to sign up for a 14-day free trial. The article didn't mention what stage they're at, but sounds like they're changing the story a bit (surprise). I loved the original when I was younger (and still watch it again once in a while), so I don't know how I feel about this one!"

Tron Redux

[slashnutt]

Good thing for bugmenot someone has already registered the link for us and latest newsflash tron guy [tronguy.net] gets a job!

I just hope they don't reuse the name Tron; do like Apocalypse Now did on a remake adding the word Redux to the title.

Pixar involvement?

[Christopher Cashell]

I know at one point I remember reading that this was being considered, and that Pixar might be involved. I recall that one of the high-up designers at Pixar said that Tron is the reason he got into the business, and that he'd love an opportunity to remake it.

I dunno if that'll happen, but I think there's a good chance it would end up a much better flick if Pixar ran with it. I'd be very curious to see what they could do.

Re:...hm

[TheFlyingGoat]

Like...

this? [imdb.com]
or this? [imdb.com]
possibly even this? [imdb.com]

And those are just the good movies. But you're right.. generalizations are fun.

I'm Looking Forward To It

[TheFlyingGoat]

I look at this a little differently than most of the posters so far. This could be absolutely terrible, which is a definite possibility given that Disney is doing it (without Pixar, for that matter :).

However, if it does end up being good and have a halfway decent story, it will bring a story that many of us have enjoyed for a long time to a new generation of fans. How many kids out there do you know of that have watched Tron? What about Cloak and Dagger? D.A.R.Y.L? These are classic movies that most people won't see unless they're redone and released again in theaters.

I'm looking forward to taking my niece to the movie, and having another 'geek' movie to watch with my wife (she LOVES LoTR). It's going to be tough to make it as good as the original, but I think that's fine as long as it's not completely awful.

plugs

[phyruxus]

>>Plugs for Disney partners will be throughout

You know the scene where Tron is on that boat-like thing that rides the laser? if you watch the landscape you can see a GIANT mickey mouse head outlined. It's bigger than the screen; it moves from right to left and it's a lighter blue than the ground. It's just a big circle with two smaller circles but it's definitely mickey's profile.

Re:plugs

[Andrewkov]

On the Tron DVD, the director mentions this in the commentatry, he did it on his own as a thank-you to Disney for making the movie, it's not like Disney told him to do it.

Re:Disney to Fuc^H^H^HRemake Tron

[Anonymous Coward]

"Virii" is not a latin word. It's a geek jargon plural, like "boxen."

If you don't like it, start your own industry niche and get your own slang to catch on with people.

Tron 2 already exists...

[gad_zuki!]

in videogame form, which is slightly ironic. Its one of the best games I've played (although a tad difficult) on the PC and easily the best looking game I've played. [ign.com]

The game is over a year old, so new video cards can easily handle it 1600x800.

The game has a decent story and lots of Tron nostalgia. To me, the sequel will have to compare to the game more than the first movie.

With "talent" like this, it has to be good

[jalefkowit]

I saw the names of the two writers credited with getting the screenplay gig, and figured I would look them up in IMDB to see what else they have written. That ought to be a pretty good predictor of what to expect, right?

Well, here's the results:

• Brian Klugman [imdb.com] is an actor with mostly TV credits. He has exactly one screenplay credit: "Warrior [imdb.com]", a perfectly awful-sounding historical war movie which isn't even due to be released until next year.
• Lee Sternthal [imdb.com] has no credits at all -- writing, acting, nothing. Oh wait, except for "Warrior", which he co-wrote with Klugman. So that's a big total of one.

So Disney is hiring two writers with practically no experience to work on a property that has been dead for 20+ years. My guess is that you should not expect the finished product to rival the LoTR trilogy :-)

unusual amount of remakes, sequels, comic books,

[walterbyrd]

cartoons, and children books?

Looks at what hollywood is churning out:

- fat albert
- fantastic four
- electra
- charly and the choclet factory
- harry potter
- flight of the phoenix
- lord of the rings (?)
- starwars (okay, prequel)
- another spiderman
- another batman
- another blade
- meet the fockers
- polar express
- lemony snickets
- ocean's twelve
- I Robot (?)

Hardly a new idea anywhere. I guess there are a few original ideas, but there does seem to be a lot of re-hashing of old ideas.

Re:Disney to Fuc^H^H^HRemake Tron

[Marxist Hacker 42]

I hope they rename the damned thing. The title was a pretty good geek pun when the movie was relased, but NOBODY programs in GW Basic anymore. (For those of you who never had the pleasure, TRON was "Trace On" in Microsoft's GW Basic interpreter, which printed line numbers to the screen as programs were being executed. In the movie, TRON was a debugging program attempting to debug the central mainframe kernal. Neat pun, but VERY dated.)

Re:Disney to Fuc^H^H^HRemake Tron

[Pxtl]

Was not the pun. Tron was short for "electronic" - the people who first created the tron character weren't computer people... the glowing-overlay-clothes technique was the root of the project, not the 3d graphics.

Watch the 20th anniversary DVD for the story.

Personally, I watch Tron and I still find it visually impressive - the artwork doesn't date that badly because its so abstract. Still, its a shame that it didn't recieve an award for the visual effects (using computers and post-prod stuff for effects was considered "cheating").

Yes, the plot is a joke and the technical details are absolutely monstrous to geeks like us, but the movie is still visually neato, and the acting is passable.