Disney Reportedly Pulls the Plug on TRON 4 After TRON: ARES Crashes at the Box Office, Is Jared Leto to Blame? — GeekTyrant
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After years of development, Tron: Ares finally hit theaters, but its disappointing box office debut may have just ended the digital saga for good. Serving as a standalone follow-up to 2010’s Tron: Legacy , Ares follows a powerful Program, played by Jared Leto , who crosses from the Gr

How come Star Wars gets a fuck ton of shitty sequels but the first TRON film in 15 years is a flop? I was waiting for this film since I was a child.

  • turdcollector69@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    It’s the same problem that every mid 80’s zeitgeist based resurrected IP faces:

    The zeitgeist the movie is based on has been dead for at least 30 years.

    For Tron, personal computers aren’t new anymore. The concept of a digital city is so much less exciting once you’ve lived with the internet for 20 years and heard mark Zuckerberg wank endlessly about the “metaverse.”

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      I think audiences were ready for visiting the virtual world in 2010. Smart phones were new and cool and not sinister yet, it was possible to feel hopeful for the internet…15 years later, not so much.