near 20 years passed between thefirstandsecondTron films and , at this pace , it may be the same between the 2nd and third . rumor start whirl in earnest todayabout the farseeing - rumoredTron 3 , and while they may or may not really be lawful , we ’ve learned over the past X not to get our Hope up .
Need more convincing ? Here ’s a brief chronicle of Tron 3 not happening :
1982 : Tron is release . It grosses $ 33 million and despite its watershed effects and cult following , is largely think a dashing hopes .
Olivia Wilde in Tron: Legacy.Image: Disney
April 2010 : Eight months before the release of Tron : Legacy , news rupture that the moving picture ’s author , Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz , are working on another continuation .
December 2010 : Tron : Legacyis released . It ’s a moderate box seat post hit , grossing $ 400 million worldwide off a budget of about $ 170 million .
January 2011 : Rumors eddy that Disney is“mere moments away”from announcing the third film , which would lucubrate on Cillian Murphy ’s cameo in Legacy .
April 2011 : rumour of Tron 3 amp up again dueto a special featureon the DVD . Also , Legacy director Joseph Kosinskisays they ’re working onthe story and he wants to pass .
https://gizmodo.com/building-the-grid-a-conversation-with-tron-legacy-dire-5697228
June 2011 : Tron 3gets a new writernamed David DiGilio .
August 2011 : Tron himself , Bruce Boxleitner , read Tron 3will be out in 2013 .
March 2012 : Boxleitnernow state morelike 2014 . Oh , and Jeff Bridges could , potentially , appear .
May 2012 : Kitsis and Horowitzsay they ’ve seenDiGilio ’s first gulp and really care it .
December 2012 : Tron 3 is officially a go according tothe Hollywood newsperson . Garrett Hedlundconfirms itand new screenwriter Jesse Wigutow comes on board . This was , by far , the fussy clip in the past decadein price of Tron 3 news .
April 2013 : Kosinski release his follow up to Tron : Legacy , the unrelated Oblivion .
October 2013 : Kitsis says everything is in place , the squad is just waitingfor Disney to give the gullible spark .
March 2015 : Almost two years later , rumors turn up that Tron 3will be shoot in the fall .
April 2015 : Hedlund and Olivia Wilde areexpected to reprise their Legacy rolesin the motion-picture show , which may now be call Tron : Ascension .
May 2015 : Not so tight . Tron 3is idle .
https://gizmodo.com/in-the-wake-of-tomorrowlands-failure-disney-kills-tron-1707849290
July 2015 : The always - happy - to - talk - Tron Boxleitner says he ’s done talking about Tron 3.He ’s give up .
September 2015 : Hedlund says the filmis not all numb .
June 2016 : A Tron rollercoaster opens at Disneyland Shanghai .
August 2016 : Producer Bringham Taylorstill has hopesfor a third flick , thanks in part to that rollercoaster .
March 2017 : Kosinski agrees that the film is n’t totally dead just yet anddetails some of what it might be about .
by and by that calendar month , news prisonbreak thatJared Leto is circling a new variation of the film that would be more of a reboot .
https://gizmodo.com/report-disney-wants-to-reboot-tron-with-jared-leto-1792947026
April 2020 : Three years top . Nothing . Kosinskiconfirms the status quothat “ There ’s always been talk and murmuring of doing another and proceed the story . ”
June 2020 : Mitchell Leib , the President of the United States of medicine and soundtracks for Disney , says on theLight the Fuse podcasthe ’s had tiffin with Paul Hahn , the manufacturer for Daft Punk , to speak a little piece about them issue forth back for Tron 3 . “ We ’re look at make a continuation to Tron now , we ’re looking at Tron 3 , ” he say . “ We ’ve got a great script , I mean a really phenomenal hand that we ’re very excited about . Whereas the timing was n’t good to have done it twelvemonth ago , I think we finger like the timing is right now , and I feel like we ’ve larn a luck of lessons from that last movie . ”
July 2020 : Going off those quotes , which had for the most part gone unnoticed , Disney sitethe DisInsiderreports that sources tell them Tron 3 with Jared Leto is still in development , is looking for a director , and is once again a continuation .
https://gizmodo.com/how-does-the-original-tron-live-up-to-our-nerdstalgia-5700796
io9 reached out to Disney to see if there was any Modern update or clarification on Leib ’s quotation mark and will update this write up if and when that happens . Suffice to say though , while it sound very encouraging , you could see it ’s probably best not to get too excited just yet .
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