In 2007, he would court the legendary French house DJ duo Daft Punk to score the film, a courtship that would last over a year before they would eventually say yes. Kosinski’s bonafides were his work on notable commercials for Microsoft video game franchises Gears of War and Halo 3. The development history of TRON: Legacy is a lengthy article unto itself but the short version is that plans for a sequel to the 1982 cult hit TRON had been floating around the entertainment business ether as early as 1999, but Disney wouldn’t start any serious development until around 2005 when they brought on visual artist and designer Joseph Kosinski to helm the project, which is wild when you consider that this nearly $200 million project would be his first feature film. However, in 2010 there was another property revival that has stood the test of time in the memories of those who took a ride to their nearest IMAX in 3D and let the sound and spectacle wash over them. These movies faded from memory pretty much as soon as The Avengers and The Force Awakens took centerstage. With the exception of John Carter, which is a solid picture in my opinion, these would all prove to be duds, not only financially but artistically as well.
In addition to Prince of Persia, Disney went back to the Jerry Bruckheimer and Gore Verbinski well with the even more ill-advised (albeit with one glaring train-shaped merit to its name) The Lone Ranger in hopes of rekindling that Pirates of the Caribbean madness and magic.
Yet, in the late ’00s and early ’10s, Disney was open to taking properties they owned or were ubiquitous enough and giving the reins over to people who had pop-y, unique but distinctly commercial visions for what was supposed to be developments of franchises, like the ill-advised and whitewashed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time adaptation of the video game of the same name and the ill-fated John Carter, which was set up to be a Harry Potter- meets- Star Wars- meets- Gladiator- style hit. Why breed your own hype and golden goose when you can just buy it? The buyouts of Lucasfilm Ltd., Marvel, and later Fox would solve this problem for them for the foreseeable future. 18 to 35” demographic that was (and largely still is) the lifeblood of blockbuster box office. Disney was more in want of films that would net them that all-powerful “white male.
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They had massive hits with their Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy and had steady earning and critical acclaim with their acquisition of Pixar, not to mention mid-level hits amongst a younger, more female-focused crowd with things like Confessions of a Shopaholic, Hannah Montana: The Movie and Tangled.
No, in the ’00s and pre- Avengers 2010s, Disney wasn’t on the most solid footing zeitgeist- and box office-wise. buyouts of the 2010s that you’d be forgiven for forgetting when Disney didn’t have over a quarter of domestic box office shares at cinemas and could rest on their laurels (and giant mountains of cash) and churn out whatever their market research and algorithms would guarantee a hit amongst the general public. Well, it’s been such a long time since both the Marvel and Lucasfilm Ltd. The danger is of course that this game is rigidly part of the movie marketing assault, which is never a good sign, although developer Propaganda Games seem aptly named to handle the pressure.Īnd it's going to star the voice of the original Tron himself - Bruce 'Babylon 5' Boxleitner.Īlthough we are preparing for heartcrushing disappointment due to previously-mentioned movie tie-in shiteness, the inclusion of light cycles, neon-piped catsuits and the inevitable over-use of the phrase "end of line" is enough to keep our hopes high.Hard to believe there was a point in the 21st century when you could say Disney wasn’t completely risk-averse or desperate enough for something to connect that they’d take a shot on giving a person or team enough creative slack to impose a hefty amount of character and vision onto a film. No such problems we hope for third-person action game Tron: Evolution will be quickly followed up with a pacy-looking movie TRON: Legacy as Evolution is its prequel). Most Gamers Were brought up on Tron, thinking it pointed to a bright future of virtual reality and interactive entertainment, in spite of the fact neither existed except in dreams and Fighting Fantasy gamebooks.Įventually that future was realised some 20 years later with Tron 2.0, which happened to be a bloody good shooter, even if it was largely ignored by the great gaming masses.
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