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Published on Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 6:03am |
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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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Reader Talkback
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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