I saw a youtube video that talked about the whole Tron expanded universe. It seems like it would provide a good background for the upcoming Ares movie and so I’ll be hunting it up again, but are there other good resources for researching the world of Tron between Legacy and now?
Probably surprising no one, I got a lot of information from the various modern(ish) video games and the animated series from the Tron Wiki, though of course, who knows what will or will not be considered “canon” when it comes to upcoming works.
In the original Tron, I could totally understand how the characters and locations were avatars for abstract concepts of how computers and video games worked. But bringing them into the real world, as is, doesn’t really make any sense that I can reconcile. So, even aside from my dislike of Jared Leto, I don’t think I’ll be seeing this one.
Eh, if you can digitize (apparently disintegrate while reading all the data / re-write it preserving it full in digital form) and reverse it, which is what happens in the original, you’ve built a template to do so starting from an all-digital entity. And assuming that the prior movie remains canon (which seems to be the case) the have the information from many return trips of Flynn and at least one from Sam, before any full digital beings enter the meatspace.
Note, it’s certainly a HUGE gimmie of the original anyway, the one big conceit that makes the movie work, and IMHO much farther into the realm of science fantasy considering the sheer energy, storage, and ethics of the issue, but it’s consistent with the world as written/filmed.
As for Jared Leto, he’s not my favorite actor either, but it won’t be the deciding issue.
Fair notice - I like Tron as a film, and have a friend who’s something of a mega-Tron fan (only the first). I own and like Legacy, but I thought it quite flawed in several areas (give it a B+ say). I have no idea if I’ll watch Ares in theaters, but as much because I rarely see any movie in theaters these days.
I can relate. Legacy needed to “out-cool” the impression of the SFX of the original, and it did not.
I love the original “Heavy Metal” and how parts of it aren’t even fully/finished animated, yet the 2000 version added nothing.
Legacy was not a good movie, but it had style. I admit to watching it occasionally. I’ll probably watch Ares.