Tron Legacy booting up game adaptation

By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpotPosted Sep 14, 2009 10:33 am PT

Director of Disney cult classic reportedly confirms interactive take on film's upcoming 2010 sequel.

Nearly three decades after Disney's Tron brought the world of computers to the big screen with 3D graphics and fluorescent video effects, the film is finally receiving a sequel. And when that sequel, Tron Legacy arrives next year, it will do so with a game adaptation in tow.

The Tron Legacy, bequeathed according to wishes detailed in the Tron Will and subject to the Tron Estate Tax. (End of line.)

Speaking with film site Latino Review at last weekend's Disney fanfest D23 Expo, original Tron director and producer on Legacy Steven Lisberger bluntly acknowledged as much.

"I don't know whether I'm supposed to say it, but I'm saying it," Lisberger said. "There is definitely [a video game.] How could there not be?"

When asked who is developing the game, Lisberger said that "Disney does in-house [game development] now," suggesting the project has been entrusted to Disney Interactive Studios. A representative with the studio had not returned a request for comment as of press time.

While Tron Legacy will be just the second feature film in the series, Tron has spawned a slew of games over the years. The original movie was adapted by a pair of arcade games, Tron and Discs of Tron, and a handful of titles on the Atari 2600 and Intellivision. In 2003, Disney's Buena Vista Interactive label brought the franchise back with Tron 2.0 on the PC, followed the next year by Tron 2.0 Killer App for the Xbox and Game Boy Advance.

62 Comments

  • xanthier

    Posted Sep 26, 2009 12:48 pm PT

    I know people think there are too many sequels/remakes, especially from Disney. But I'm glad most people are enthusiastic about this. Tron has quite the cult following and they have been campaigning to get another movie for years now, and our dream is finally coming true.

    Monolith's game was pretty good too, hopefully they find a studio equally talented for this one.

  • MattHopeKids

    Posted Sep 15, 2009 6:38 pm PT

    Oh my word, how have I not seen this trailer before. Amazing, can't wait.

  • otanikun

    Posted Sep 15, 2009 3:00 pm PT

    Oh that is bad ass

  • NuKkU

    Posted Sep 15, 2009 2:49 pm PT

    i kind of figured this

  • hannify

    Posted Sep 15, 2009 2:27 pm PT

    so now disney changed it to dark knight design?

  • Land-0-Funk

    Posted Sep 15, 2009 1:55 pm PT

    Huge Tron fan..can't wait!!

  • vengeance00

    Posted Sep 15, 2009 1:50 pm PT

    i have to say i'm impressed with the trailer, looks a lot better then most games and trailers that come out of disney.

  • shadowkiller11

    Posted Sep 15, 2009 11:35 am PT

    I'm going to have a open mind about this.

  • wahyudil

    Posted Sep 15, 2009 8:33 am PT

    will the story connect with Tron 2.0 ?

  • Mr_Versipellis

    Posted Sep 15, 2009 6:09 am PT

    This is unnecessary.
    Tron is certainly of it's time.

  • IntaleX

    Posted Sep 15, 2009 5:05 am PT

    While I tottaly agree that it's time to stop milking stuff and this will probebly suck...
    Disney does not have bad inhouse gamedevelopment, if you look at there trackrecord, they make fairly decent games.
    Who knows, we might eventually even get a decent Marvel game...

  • Waldkrieger

    Posted Sep 15, 2009 4:49 am PT

    Ridiculous. What ever happened to just making a movie and stopping at that? Must every sci-fi/fantasy movie be made into a rushed job, pointless game? Just a waste of time, talent, and money. Stop milking things, because that's when the imagination, inspiration, and art is lost. That's why 75% of everything made now days is nonsense.

  • smartmart

    Posted Sep 15, 2009 4:13 am PT

    Disney interactive + Game + movie tie in = One big fat bargain bin flop.

  • Bashers79

    Posted Sep 15, 2009 3:12 am PT

    I saw the trailer a while back on a movie site, there was this one guy who posted a comment that there was to much CGI in the movie, I hope for his sake he was joking. As for the game, its going to be a movie tie-in made by Disney's in-house studio, its destined to flop.

  • Franzkill

    Posted Sep 15, 2009 1:43 am PT

    Sister showed me the trailer for the film the other day and I must say it looks very promising. I've never watched the original but I definetly want to now.

    Hopefully the game will live up to the movie's anticipation though.

  • BatThink

    Posted Sep 15, 2009 1:23 am PT

    Oh no, not another movie to game lisence, we all know how this might turn out. Is nothing sacred any more

  • Targzissian

    Posted Sep 14, 2009 11:48 pm PT

    My dad took me to see Tron for my 12th birthday. There are very few times in my life when I have been that excited about anything. I'm glad they're finally doing a proper sequel.

    As for Tron 2.0 (the 2003 PC game) I played through it about three or four times. And spent a lot of time with the light cycles. I really enjoyed it.

    Unfortunately, I'm now almost forty years old and am very jaded about pretty much everything. It's hard to feel much excitement like I was able to when I was a tween.

    I'm excited, but just not that much.

  • mayankahuja

    Posted Sep 14, 2009 11:11 pm PT

    wow cant wait for this movie to come out.......since the 1st one was a classic......

  • ColonelX24

    Posted Sep 14, 2009 11:00 pm PT

    @OrkHammer007 thanks that does clear it up, but I gotta watch that movie again, that confusion I had ruined the second half.

  • OrkHammer007

    Posted Sep 14, 2009 9:48 pm PT

    Wow... blast from the past!!! I saw the original "TRON" in theatres several times as a kid, and sank a LOT of money into the arcade games. I wonder how they'll explain the sequel (since the original didn't leave much unexplained). As for a game... only if it has unlimited light-cycle racing.

    @ColonelX24: There was no "missing scene." TRON was a security program written by Alan Bradley; the reason they looked alike was because, by the movie's rules, programs took on many of the characteristics of their programmers (which is also why the bad guy had TWO programs that looked/talked like him: the MCP and the counter-intrusion program Sark). Hope that clears things up for you.

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