It’s almost like a certain part of the audience out there worries “why are you letting the computers run away with this kind of imagery and story, when we should keep them contained with things that are more traditional.”ĪX: Will you be involved in the development of the story for TRON 3 and where would you like to see it go? They’re not being asked to slavishly render wars or conventional things that we’re used to seeing.
I felt we really had a powerful father/son story, it still feels like we’re letting the computers get away with murder. I think TRON challenges that in a way, because it’s really radical. I think the general audience feels safer if you say you’re going to have the most radical technology behind the making of this movie, they want to know you’re going to have babies and puppies and kisses in the rain. He did that with TITANIC and he did it with AVATAR. The more cutting edge Cameron makes the cinema, the more he counter-balances it with a traditional emotional story. STEVEN LISBERGER: I think we’re looking at a situation, and I was just talking to Joe about it, and I think James Cameron has found a formula that works. ASSIGNMENT X spoke with Lisberger in the second part of this exclusive interview about both films and where he’d like to see a third film go.ĪSSIGNMENT X: I still maybe think LEGACY has proven to be a bit ahead of its time, just like TRON was. TRON: LEGACY just hit Blu-ray and DVD this week, as well as the original, remastered TRON. It’s up to Flynn’s grown-up son Sam (Garrett Hedlund) to enter the computer world to save him. The film finds Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) trapped in the computer grid of his own making and held hostage by a young, computer program version of himself dubbed Clu. Now 28 years after his seminal film, the sequel TRON: LEGACY finally arrived with Lisberger producing and Joe Kosinski taking the helm. When director Steven Lisberger created TRON in 1982, he had no idea he would be influencing a whole new generation (and foreshadowing the computer revolution that was on the horizon).
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