Tag: Tron: Legacy
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‘Tron: Ares’ Delayed by Strike: Director Calls Out ‘Extremely Frustrating’ Negotiations
“Tron: Ares” director Joachim Rønning is calling out the ongoing negotiations between the AMPTP and SAG and WGA unions.Rønning confirmed on social media that production on “Tron: Ares,” the third film in the franchise, has been delayed, with principal photography now halted amid the ongoing strikes. The Disney film stars Jared Leto, Evan Peters, Jodie…
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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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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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How Tron: Legacy Went From Sequel to Cult Classic
Few movie scores of the past 20+ years have seen their soundtrack mesh as well with their on-screen visual counterpart as the work Daft Punk created for Tron: Legacy. Initially, Tron: Legacy seemed like a run-of-the-mill entry in a long-dormant series, one with the potential to rejuvenate the franchise with audiences after essentially a 28-year…
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Top Gun: Maverick’s Editor Was ‘Desperate’ For The Movie ‘Not To Suck’ [Exclusive]
Despite their massive earnings this year, not even dinosaurs (“Jurassic World: Dominion“), Marvel superheroes (“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness“), or the wrath of yellow henchmen (“Minions: The Rise of Gru“) could have staved over the sheer force that is Tom Cruise piloting a fighter jet. As of this moment, “Top Gun: Maverick” has…
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‘It Was a Different Disney By 2015’: Joseph Kosinski Says Big Franchises Helped Kill ‘Tron: Ascension’
Joseph Kosinski has quietly established himself as Hollywood’s top director of sequels that were 30 years in the making. The success of “Top Gun: Maverick” currently has him on top of the world, but it was not the first time he updated a 1980s classic for contemporary audiences. In 2010, Kosinski made his directorial debut…
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‘Tron 3’ Director Says Marvel and Star Wars Helped Kill the Sequel: It Was ‘Storyboarded and Written’
Joseph Kosinski is flying high off the success of “Top Gun: Maverick,” which debuted to a record-breaking 160 million over the Memorial Day weekend frame. The sequel is the first bonafide box office success for the director, who started his feature directorial career with Disney’s “Tron: Legacy.” That sequel earned 400 million worldwide, but that…
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Tron 3 Was Ready To Go, And Then Disney Changed Their Minds
Before he hooked up with Tom Cruise to make “Oblivion” and “Top Gun: Maverick,” director Joseph Kosinski made a little movie called “Tron: Legacy.” Best remembered, perhaps, for its Daft Punk soundtrack (which still rocks), “Tron: Legacy” hit theaters in late 2010 and functioned as the belated sequel to the original 1982 “Tron.” Garrett Hedlund…
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Top Gun: Maverick Director Joseph Kosinski Shot 800 Hours Of Footage
Joseph Kosinski knows his way around a long movie. His feature films “Tron: Legacy,” “Oblivion,” and “Only the Brave” all surpass the two-hour mark, but the editing team of the highly-anticipated “Top Gun: Maverick” surely had their work cut out for them. According to an interview with Empire, Kosinski confessed to having shot around 800…