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.

  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    The original Tron apparently actually made decent money (which is weird because everyone just assumed it bombed?)

    Legacy made $410m on a $170m budget.

    The problem is legitimately Disney and Leto…

    And also Legacy was in 2010 so what exactly is happening here? You can’t turn this into some kind of decades-long franchise with a doofus like Leto as the star, it’s a “well the last one was kind of fun” movie you can’t have a sex pest cultist as your face while trying to rake in casual nostalgia cash.

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

      The original Tron was made on a $17 million budget and made $50 million at the box office in 1982. In 1980, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back was made on a budget of $30 million and earned $550 million.

      In 2010, Disney wanted their own Star Wars, so they tried making another Tron flick. Maybe they could make it stick. It made $410 million on a $170 million budget. Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith had a $113 million budget and made $903 million.

      Disney has since bought and run Star Wars into the ground. Meanwhile Tron: Ares has been in production hell since 2017. And for the first time, a Tron movie is an outright failure.