Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski says Marvel and Star Wars are the reason Disney cancelled his planned Tron 3.
Tron 3 was canceled by Disney because of Star Wars and Marvel, says Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinki. Before taking to the skies with Tom Cruise as director of Top Gun: Maverick, Kosinski in 2010 resurrected another long-dormant ‘80s title by directing a sequel to 1982’s Tron. Unfortunately Tron did not take off as a new Disney franchise, despite Tron: Legacy grossing a respectable $400 million at the worldwide box office.
The original Tron of course was itself not exactly a massive box office success for Disney. Despite boasting early computer effects and interesting sci-fi themes, the film made just $33 million on a reported budget of $17 million. But Tron did go on to become a cult film, which is why Disney ultimately decided to go ahead with Tron: Legacy as a potential franchise-launching science fiction property.
I got so close. I really tried. I got close in 2015, and Disney pulled the plug on it. I hadn’t built anything, but I had the whole movie storyboarded and written. I was really excited because it was inverting the idea: It was all that stuff coming into our world, and it was about the blending of the two. But it was a different Disney by 2015. When I made Tron: Legacy, they didn’t own Marvel; they didn’t own Star Wars. We were the play for fantasy and science fiction.
Kosinski’s Tron: Ascension was once described by the director as an"invasion movie" in which beings from the grid would have come to the real world. But fans will never get to see that vision as Disney elected to go in a different direction. It remains to be seen what Leto’s Tron ultimately offers up, but it does appear the project is still moving forward.
Of course it makes a certain sort of sense for Disney to place their emphasis on making Marvel and Star Wars movies given the hugeness of those franchises, while back-burnering something like Tron that remains more of a niche title. But obviously with Disney+ now in play, it’s possible to be niche and still get new content made. So perhaps somewhere down the road Kosinski will still get a chance to unleash his vision of Tron 3 on the world.
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