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Lisberger off making a TRON sequel, now Disney set to just... remake it...

Hey folks, Harry here. I love TRON. It's a primal film. It was the movie that made me fall in love with computers. It made me dream about what they could be. I've long dreamt of having that desk system of David Warners. I just think it's the coolest thing around.

I bought a scope 16mm print of the original, and it is still one of my happiest movies to watch. After the TRON video game did well, the word was that Lisberger was going to get to do his long awaited TRON sequel. Well now, it seems that they've taken the project and put it into the hands of Brian Klugman & Lee Sternthal. Here's an excerpt from the Variety article:

"Sternthal said the new conceit is that the computer programmer gets trapped in a cyberworld, so that the film can utilize the Internet."

Ah, because... ya see... um, the internet didn't exist during the original TRON. Remember, back then, the MCP had to hire thugs to kidnap the actual Pentagon computers and bring them to directly hook up via hard-wiring. I mean... sigh... Lisberger is a visionary and an artist that envisioned the future of what computers would be. These guys, their only qualifications were that they plunked a lot of quarters into the stand up version of the video game... I just don't have faith in them. Oh sure, let them do their thing, but I'm watching this project with a high degree of... "THEY BETTER NOT FUCK IT UP!" and the genuine feeling that the original filmmaker and creator of the TRON universe had compelling and wonderful ideas and directions that he was wishing to take this into, that would again be visionary, and having it just be REGURGITATED by people that apparently think the internet is a recent thing that ... wasn't around at the time of the original film... well... that's just 'tarded as hell and shows a complete and utter lack of knowledge about the history of computers, the internet and how systems work. And if that's the case, they sure as hell need to back the fuck off TRON!

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I liked it better when it was called The Matrix.
by Rant Breath
Jan 13th, 2005
05:13:12 AM
I agree Harry...
by Lujho
Jan 13th, 2005
05:16:40 AM
Every 2 years...
by Heckles
Jan 13th, 2005
05:19:50 AM
Have to agree with Setion_Pirate
by Preacher_mg
Jan 13th, 2005
05:30:10 AM
Hollywood Screws Itself
by AtomicHyperbole
Jan 13th, 2005
05:52:15 AM
Actually...
by AtomicHyperbole
Jan 13th, 2005
06:01:50 AM
Tron story
by c4andmore
Jan 13th, 2005
07:30:45 AM
"They better not fuck it up"??? BWHAAA-HAA-HAA-HA!!!
by Nosferatu Jones
Jan 13th, 2005
08:06:55 AM
Um, Harry...
by Sledgeh101
Jan 13th, 2005
08:14:24 AM
squirrels
by stvnhthr
Jan 13th, 2005
08:21:09 AM
Did anyone see the movie TRON?
by President Evil
Jan 13th, 2005
08:41:59 AM
I agree, Harry, and no offense, Rant Breath...
by The PimpDragon
Jan 13th, 2005
08:42:21 AM
Damn!
by Lord_Soth
Jan 13th, 2005
08:53:56 AM
Don't need a remake...
by Southpaw Samurai
Jan 13th, 2005
09:35:11 AM
Who Cares, the Matrix movies sucked ass!
by BigTuna
Jan 13th, 2005
09:54:04 AM
I still prefer to think that Tron, The Matrix, The Terminator, a
by rev_skarekroe
Jan 13th, 2005
10:16:40 AM
Will Captain Panaka be in it?
by BNITT
Jan 13th, 2005
10:36:35 AM
Tron sucks balls like a new Missy Elliot song on MTV.
by Brian_De_Man
Jan 13th, 2005
10:44:46 AM
Steven Lisburger is the only man that should write/direct a sequ
by MachinaMan
Jan 13th, 2005
10:47:15 AM
they already did the remake- it was called the matrix.
by dr.bulber
Jan 13th, 2005
11:01:55 AM
Stop Rewarding Disney for regurgitating their library with your
by Oompa_Radar
Jan 13th, 2005
11:34:49 AM
Hell, I don't know what you guys are worried about...
by DocPazuzu
Jan 13th, 2005
11:46:52 AM
The Seven Stages of Harry's Remake Grief
by soylentphil
Jan 13th, 2005
12:19:38 PM
that's mighty disapointing stranger
by Mr Brownstone
Jan 13th, 2005
12:21:56 PM
Where a Tron sequel could succeed, and be just as pioneering as
by ar42
Jan 13th, 2005
12:24:11 PM
What they need to make it work
by Kentucky Colonel
Jan 13th, 2005
01:08:48 PM
Tron and Matrix both ripped off Doctor Who
by Media_Gold
Jan 13th, 2005
01:13:45 PM
Tron 2.0 computer game **IS** Tron for today, baby!
by CKnightShift
Jan 13th, 2005
01:17:22 PM
"the history of computers, the internet and how systems work"
by ScienceMan
Jan 13th, 2005
01:28:10 PM
Attn. Media_Gold, re: Doctor Who "The Deadly Assassin"
by CKnightShift
Jan 13th, 2005
01:35:25 PM
to the haters
by Seelbach
Jan 13th, 2005
01:45:47 PM
The original Tron was just a novelty...
by Rupee88
Jan 13th, 2005
02:02:49 PM
Why make a sequel to a 1982 bomb?
by BigTuna
Jan 13th, 2005
02:06:36 PM
The Tron Guy
by DocPazuzu
Jan 13th, 2005
02:25:19 PM
I think they should make 'Tron 2.5' with Hulk Hogan as the baddi
by mbaker
Jan 13th, 2005
03:02:38 PM
Just like Wonka, another remake will suck
by Jeditemple
Jan 13th, 2005
04:00:06 PM
No, Tron is not a GREAT movie but...
by DoctorWho?
Jan 13th, 2005
07:11:41 PM
And who wants to bet the terrorists in the new Poseiden Adventur
by DoctorWho?
Jan 13th, 2005
07:15:37 PM
The Tron 2.0 game that CKnightShift mentioned had two cool secti
by FrankDrebin
Jan 13th, 2005
08:02:23 PM
So...
by Setion_Pirate
Jan 13th, 2005
08:48:06 PM
This only proves (yet again) that Roy Disney is right that Eisne
by Commando Cody
Jan 13th, 2005
08:50:57 PM
Freakazoid?
by kdoc13
Jan 13th, 2005
10:21:08 PM
Tron 2.0 was an involving experience with a shallow and silly st
by SalvatoreGravano
Jan 14th, 2005
05:31:04 AM
another remake?
by CuervoJones
Jan 14th, 2005
05:33:53 AM
Think about it with - they could remake this endlessly, every co
by RobinP
Jan 15th, 2005
11:19:03 AM
Don't know how they can do this without making it look like a ba
by minderbinder
Jan 17th, 2005
03:08:53 PM
Alas, it is 2.5 years Later
by kevinwillis.net
Aug 11th, 2007
01:01:31 AM

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