Fire Up Your Light Cycles: Tron 3 Begins Filming This Year

[webkilla]

I want to see a movie version of the PC game Tron: Legacy

that game got Tron so right it was beautiful...

Was the tron legacy game good?

I loved Tron 2.0 and thought both the writing and the environment were a great continuation of the original Tron theme. I was very disappointed that Legacy threw out 2.0 and came up with their own bizarro world.

Tell me this environment doesnt look totally badass!

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bugger me

I meant Tron 2.0

the game for Tron Legacy sucked balls - really repetitive and didn't do a fraction of the cool stuff with discs that 2.0 did.

Plus 2.0 did light cycles right.


Hell yes - I loved what you did in 2.0 - its representation of viral corruption, the way weapons were all modifications to your 'primitive' type weapons, the way you freaking overclock an old PC from the inside... plus the idea that a foreign corporation tries to exploit the tron tech to make 'mobile server' that could run around and launch internet super haxors - it was a great interpretation of how the modern world might use tron tech.

 

[Poetic Nova]

It'll hopefully end up being a better movie than Legacy was.
Oh well, atleast there is always the original movie and 2.0 to enjoy if the next movie will end up being mediocre aswell.

 

[Pyrian]

To summarize both scripts: A guy named Flynn, with personal reasons to be in a lab with a magic laser, is tricked, by a sentient program, into standing in front of said magic laser and is sent inside a computer world. There he meets other programs fighting against the evil programs, helps save the real world, and finds a way out of the computer world.

Even after you completely butchered both scripts by removing almost everything in them, you still get it wrong. In the sequel, he isn't tricked into the computer. Clu has no idea he's even there until he lands on Clu's doorstep.

 

[Parasondox]

Daft Punk is coming back right? Right? They are one of the main reasons why I liked Tron Legacy. Their soundtrack was and still is amazing and fit that world perfectly. Just come up with a better story than "daddy issues" and we are good.

 

[Hairless Mammoth]

To summarize both scripts: A guy named Flynn, with personal reasons to be in a lab with a magic laser, is tricked, by a sentient program, into standing in front of said magic laser and is sent inside a computer world. There he meets other programs fighting against the evil programs, helps save the real world, and finds a way out of the computer world.

Even after you completely butchered both scripts by removing almost everything in them, you still get it wrong. In the sequel, he isn't tricked into the computer. Clu has no idea he's even there until he lands on Clu's doorstep.

Butchered is such a harsh term. I prefer to call it distilling the scripts, exposing the DNA. But, if you want to call it that, I butchered both to the bone, and I saw that the skeletons are almost the same. (It's not a deal breaker, but it bothers me when I notice it.)

Spoiler: Kinda going into spoiler territory, but only halfway into the movie.

But about Clu, what was with the page Alan Bradley got? Clue did want someone to activate the digitizing laser. He might not have expected Sam to be there but likely expected someone. I'd bet that recognizer that picked up Sam was stationed near the Grid's arcade for whoever came out when the portal activated, not just assigned a typical patrol. Clu also had his invasion army of rectified programs being built up prior to Sam's arrival.

Even Kevin Flynn's exact words to Sam in the film were "Clu sent that page. That's why you're here. This is his design. He wanted a new piece on the board to change the game! With you, he got more than he ever dreamed." That implies that Sam wasn't particularly Clu's target, but Clu did want someone to come in and mess up Kevin's plan of keeping Clu sealed in the Grid.

Now I haven't consumed any of the tie-in media (except for a 2-3 hours playing Evolution, which didn't tell me anything), so this is coming from a solely movie patron's perspective. If they have any info that tells why Alan got a page only after 20 years or contradict what I said, then go with the expanded universe's canon. But, from the view of someone who only saw Legacy and maybe the first Tron, it is pretty clear Clu intended to deceive someone into activating the laser and coming to the Grid.