Disney Keeps Threatening Tron 3 - Hires New Writer
Wed, December 5, 2012 
Tron: Legacy came and went. With a thud. Wasn't embraced by fandom, the public wasn't in awe of 3D light-cycles or bad-CG de-aged Jeff Bridges. Disney talked up Tron 3 here and there. Writers were assigned. But they were going through the motions.
Just covering their asses is all. Disney spent serious cash rebranding Tron for the twenty-first century. They'd never admit outright, "Yeah Tron: Legacy failed like Tron did." Remember even John Carter had writers commissioned for its follow-up The Gods of Mars even after its disastrous box-office.
Thing is they're still talking sequel. This time, its Jesse Wigutow commissioned. Borys Kit's Mouse Moles say this is Alan Horn's doing. Why, I don't know. Lucasfilm is theirs and Star Wars Episode VII is coming for 2015 (Supposedly the director will be announced before Christmas). Plus what Marvel and Pixar churn out. That leaves little room, or need, for Tron 3.
Look you took a gamble, backing the pony on sequelizing a thirty-year-old pricey flop-turned-cult favorite. It failed. You get credit for the risk, but move the Hell on, Disney. Nobody is going to see Tron 3 and you're ultimately not going to make it. Stop fooling yourselves.
Source: Heat Vision
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