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“No Going Back” reads the Tron: Ares tagline.
Why couldn’t Disney heed its own advice?
Greed. The answer’s most definitely greed - as well as the desperate desire to recycle an IP through cynical nostalgia-baiting to better generate interest in a franchise the House of Mouse wants to turn into a profit opportunity. All this despite the fact Tron’s cultural stock dried out in the 80s.
So, 15 years after the underwhelming Tron: Legacy and 43 years since the original Tron, one of the first films to extensively use CGI, audiences are going back into The Grid’s digital landscape for a third entry. Or rather, in a reversal of the established parameters, the computer programmes are coming into our world in Joachim Rønning’s Tron: Ares.
We start with a recap intro which gives audiences all the rushed backstory they need: intelligent life from inside the machine; Jeff Bridges’ Kevin Flynn disappearing; his son Sam Flyn
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