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Tron: Ares

Legacy certainly makes it seem as though Kevin died. Emphasis on the seem.

There's all sorts of excuses one could have for using Bridges again. Kevin still alive, an echo of him in the system, another Clu or Clu-like duplicate...

I've heard people speculate that Ares exits from the original grid from the first film, as opposed to Kevin's new grid in Legacy. If they go that way, it's not a bad way of doing a non-sequel sequel. You can be a not-a-sequel to Legacy without contradicting it. Like, those events happened...we're just not dealing with them here and now.
 
OK, I guess there are ways around that Flynn's Sr.'s death then.
Even if Ares is from the old Grid, you'd still think Sam and Quorra would be involved since they're probably the two biggest experts on how to deal with programs who have gotten out in the real world.
 
Unless Ares deliberately prevents their arrival. Or whatever antagonist is operating and creating the danger.
 
StarTrek1701 said:
Flynn's back, but not his son? Is there gonna be nay continuity to it or is it another soft reboot?
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Standalone sequel.

137th Gebirg said:
Yep. That tracks. He's kind of like Jim Carey like that. His portrayal of Andy Kaufman was of particular note there - and Kaufman himself was also pretty much the same way back then.
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Totally off topic. But did you see the netflix documentary Jim and Andy? I liked it more than the actual film 'Man on the Moon'.
 
Saul said:
Standalone sequel.


Totally off topic. But did you see the netflix documentary Jim and Andy? I liked it more than the actual film 'Man on the Moon'.
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I did’t, but I did see “Man on the Moon”, which I did enjoy quite a bit. I’ll check out the other one.
 
Sketcher said:
Also NIN's lead singer Trent Reznor has been composing music for films and TV for a while. So this isn't just some alt rock band dropped into a sci-fi film.
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That's putting it mildly. He was nominated for three Oscars for Best Score and won two! "The Social Network" (2010) and "Soul" (2020). He was nominated for "Mank", also in 2020 (so technically he was never going to win three).
 
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Tallguy said:
They were going to be an army.

Also, CLU by definition was not a BIG PICTURE kind of fellow.
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So, CLU's plan was to bring an entire unarmed army out of the Grid into the real world -- in a huge troop carrier -- and then simply dump them on the ground because the carrier would de-rez on entry? I'm pretty sure the ships they were bringing out were armed. CLU was somewhat CLUless (see what I did there), but he wouldn't form an invasion without being able to shoot first.

Can this happen for real? No. Are programs really tiny people? No. Does it matter? No. Does it make the film less enjoyable? I guess that's up to you.
 
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I just want to know how they got that huge Recognizer out into the real world if the laser in the arcade basement is the ONLY one around of its kind. Or is it?
 
Didn't they suggest or hint at the idea of people visiting the computer world in Tron Legacy?

It would be the ultimate tourism wouldn't it?
 
Gingerbread Demon said:
Didn't they suggest or hint at the idea of people visiting the computer world in Tron Legacy?

It would be the ultimate tourism wouldn't it?
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From my 2023 OP in this thread, when Variety ran a story on the synopsis:
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[Jared] Leto is starring in “Tron: Ares” as Ares, the manifestation of a program that becomes sentient and crosses over into the human world, with “Past Lives” star Lee as a video game programmer and tech company CEO who aims to protect her world-changing technology.
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It does sound like Greta Lee's character has a "world-chaning technology" that is probably along the lines of what you're suggesting. A tourism bridge from the real to computer world. OR, it could be she figured out a way to bring the computer world into ours. Either way, things go awry when Ares feels his world is threatened. If true, this is Jurassic Park / World for the Tron franchise.
 
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Gingerbread Demon said:
Didn't they suggest or hint at the idea of people visiting the computer world in Tron Legacy?

It would be the ultimate tourism wouldn't it?
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Indeed.

Particularly since time passes so much faster in the computer world. You could have a vacation that lasted decades, possibly even centuries, and return to the real world only a few days after you left it.

Tallguy said:
Why on Earth they got Boxleitner and Bridges back for Legacy but not David Warner is beyond me. RIP.
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The whole point of Cillian Murphy's appearance was to set up a return for Warner in TR3N. Dillinger Jr. was collaborating with his father the whole time, so they could take back control of Encom.

So there wasn't room for Warner to appear in the second film, but he would have in the third (which got stuck in development hell for so long that Boxleitner walked).
 
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