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
      8·
      7 days 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
        3·
        6 days 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.

    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      7 days ago

      I liked Tron and Tron Legacy (haven’t watched Ares), but Disney has spent the last decade plus killing good franchises with shitty scripts, so I’m leaning more towards Disney being the problem.

    • Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      7 days ago

      The concept of Tron,is a good one. And the first movie, while not perfect, is pretty good. Theres enough there, that Disney could have created its very own Star Wars franchise. Instead they bought Star Wars, and gave it the Tron treatment to make sure that died as well.

      The problem is very much Disney. With Marvel, they got the right creatives together to make mostly solid movies that people liked. Over the past 5 years, they have pissed all that away with being Disney things. And a few months ago, I read that they were looking for another ip to buy so they could bring the gen Z male audience back… Which is telling as fuck, when they have Marvel and Star Wars, but dont know how to make them appeal to the younger male audience so much that they need to buy another IP.

      • SavageCoconut@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        7 days ago

        Instead they bought Star Wars, and gave it the Tron treatment to make sure that died as well.

        actually, disney’s SW was going to be John Carter and they killed it in favor of SW.

        Which is telling as fuck, when they have Marvel and Star Wars, but dont know how to make them appeal to the younger male audience so much that they need to buy another IP.

        Well, disney never knew how to handle SW at any point. They had luck with The Mandalorian S01 and with Rogue One, and Rebels, but that’s it… they are a girls/family company and that’s it. Pixar was other thing but now they are Pixaren’t after disney bought them.

        • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          5 days ago

          actually, disney’s SW was going to be John Carter and they killed it in favor of SW.

          They killed it when they took off the FROM MARS part!

          John Carter. Who the fuck is John Carter?!

          John Carter FROM MARS! Ooohhh, it’s a sci-fi. I’m in!

          Good script, good acting, good source material, good director that was really into the source material, shit marketing.