TRON 3 [TRON: ARES] Lives Again, Starts Shooting in August

[AndyDursin]

Kosinski returns, hopefully.

Must have hit some merchandising milestone, though I could pass on Jared Leto!

[AndyDursin]

https://deadline.com/2020/08/garth-davi ... 202992103/

[AndyDursin]

...and 3 years later, it's happening.

One wonders if the theme park ride coming to Disney World in March had anything to do with this (my guess: yes!).

[Monterey Jack]

Disney's so desperate for recognizable IPs to plunder they're making sequels to flop movies now...!

[AndyDursin]

Tron Legacy wasn't really a flop. Did $200 mil adjusted domestic back in 2010, $400 mil worldwide. Budget was high though which was the issue. Either way it did better than Blade Runner 2049 and the property has a lot of value in terms of games and other peripheral stuff (soundtrack was a huge seller too). Plus they have the ride to pivot off at the theme park, just like Avatar

[Monterey Jack]

Tron Legacy wasn't a flop!

The original was...

[AndyDursin]

Not entirely! Tron wasnt what they were hoping for but it was not a total bust: it was Disney's highest grossing movie apparently for 5 full years. Did $50 mil on a $17 mil budget. Did loads of merchandising and game sales. So no it definitely wasn't Star Wars but it did a lot better than The Thing and Blade Runner did back in the summer of 82.

I think it was more that people were disappointed in it in terms of story and content, so that it had a bad reputation more that way than for how much money it didn't make.

[AndyDursin]