‘Tron 3’ Goes Into Production This Summer

It took 28 years to get Tron: Legacy after the unique Tron. So technically, despite the fact that it’s already been 13 years since Tron: Legacy, Tron 3 continues to be method forward of schedule if it truly occurs within the subsequent few years. And now it type of appears to be like prefer it may?

A 3rd movie has been trapped in growth hell since not lengthy after Tron: Legacy got here out in 2010. The most recent model is predicted to star Jared Leto  — and, in accordance with a brand new report from Selection, Evan Peters. If all goes in accordance with plan, the movie is predicted to start manufacturing in August, with Joachim Rønning, who beforehand made Pirates of the Caribbean: Useless Males Inform No Tales and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, serving as director.

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After 28 years, Tron: Legacy relaunched the franchise with a narrative that centered on its unique hero Kevin Flynn’s son, who goes trying to find his lacking father throughout the computerized actuality of “The Grid.” Its director Joseph Kosinski, was truly engaged on his model of Tron 3 that may have “inverted” the idea and introduced computerized folks into the actual world. Final yr, Kosinski stated the undertaking collapsed as a result of shortly after Disney made Tron: Legacy, the corporate purchased Marvel and Lucasfilm, and after that they’d much less curiosity in making an attempt to increase the much less fashionable, much less bankable Tron.

However Leto is supposedly an enormous Tron fan (he’s stated “each the unique online game and the movie [of Tron]” had a big effect on him as a child), and he’s been hooked up to a 3rd movie for quite a lot of years. He first turned related with the fabric again in 2017; three years in the past he was imagined to star in a undertaking referred to as Tron: Ares. 

This newest iteration of Tron 3 doesn’t but have a confirmed launch date.