Tag: Tron
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‘Tron: Ares’ Production Delayed As Director Pleads For Strike Resolution: “This Is Hollywood. We Close Deals For Breakfast.”
It already took decades for a sequel to 1982’s “Tron” to arrive, but that eventually happened with 2010’s “Tron: Legacy.” Now, we’ve waited more than a decade for a third film, “Tron: Ares,” to arrive. And it appears that film is going to be delayed even more, but this time it’s not for any creative…
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Cameron Monaghan Joins ‘Tron: Ares’
Cameron Monaghan has joined the cast of Tron: Ares, according to Deadline. The next installment set in the franchise the began in 1982 is gearing up to introduce a new generation to the world of the Grid, with Joachim Rønning assembling a powerful cast for his sequel. It’s been more than a decade since the…
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Evan Peters to Star in ‘Tron 3’ With Jared Leto
Evan Peters, star of “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” and “Mare of Easttown,” is joining Jared Leto in “Tron: Ares,” the third film in Disney’s extremely long-lived cyberspace franchise.Joachim Rønning (“Maleficent: Mistress of Evil”) will direct the film from a script by Jesse Wigutow. Production is set for August (an actors strike notwithstanding).Along…
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‘Tron 3’: Everything We Know so Far About ‘Ares’
The road to a third film in the Tron series has been rocky at best and turbulent at worst. It’s a franchise that has always had something of a complicated relationship with the Walt Disney Company. Neither the original Tron (1982) nor its sequel Tron: Legacy (2010) were exactly box office smash hits, yet both…
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Forty Years After ‘Tron,’ Storytellers Are Moving onto the Metaverse
“To create engagement, you have to have a story. In the metaverse, the creators will create the community, and the stories they tell will create the community, just like at the beginning of time. The king’s storyteller kept people engaged, Shakespeare kept people engaged,” said American film producer Donald Kushner, whose 1982 film “Tron” is…
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The Last Starfighter Deconstructed the Wish Fulfillment of Sci-Fi Movies
The Last Starfighter is a film that fits into multiple categories. It’s one of the first films, alongside the original Tron, to make use of early computer-generated imagery. It’s a video game movie that manages to capture the exhilarating feeling of getting lost in a video game movie — and it’s not even based on…
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David Warner: a look back at the actor’s most memorable performances – video obituary
The veteran British actor has died aged 80. The BBC reported that Warner died from ‘a cancer-related illness’ and that his family confirmed the news ‘with an overwhelmingly heavy heart’. Here is a look back at some of his most memorable performances, including roles in Titanic, Time Bandits and The OmenVeteran British actor David Warner, star…
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Veteran British actor David Warner, star of The Omen and Tron, dies aged 80
The stage and screen veteran’s multi-faceted career included roles in Titanic, Time Bandits and Straw Dogs, as well as a renowned Hamlet for the RSCThe veteran British actor David Warner has died aged 80. The BBC reported that Warner died from “a cancer-related illness” and that his family confirmed the news “with an overwhelmingly heavy…
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‘Frankly it blew my mind’: how Tron changed cinema – and predicted the future of tech
From cyberspace to AI, Steven Lisberger’s 1982 sci-fi classic was way ahead of its time. The team behind it explain how they made a game-changerBack in 1982, computers meant one of two things in the popular imagination. Either they were room-sized machines used by the military-industrial complex to crunch data on stuff like nuclear wars…