11 Jul We need more Tron
It has been nine years since Tron Legacy and in that time we’ve had four Star Wars films, with a fifth by the end of the year. Two Star Trek sequels. Hey, we even had a Justice League movie. Tron, released in 1982, has a massive following and came out at the same time as ET. It introduced to a digital world filled with dazzling splendour, amazing vehicles such as lightcycles and solar sails. But it was governed by the merciless Master Control Program (MCP), whose orders where carried out by his iron fist, Sark who condemned any freethinking programs to the games with deadly disc battles. Only for, Kevin Flynn and the title hero, Tron to stand up and destroy MCP and Sark.
There was Tron 2.0, a first person shooter in 2003, but I never got round to playing that, but when Tron: Legacy came out in 2010 I was so pumped and rushed to the cinema to watch it and loved! Lord knows how many times I watched it on DVD, hoping to discover more about The Grid which, Kevin Flynn discovered and battled to survive against his own creation, Clu. A corrupted image of himself seeking perfection, and would stop at nothing to cleanse the grid of all impurities including, Flynn and his son, Sam. The ending of Legacy left massive opening for sequels, and was hopeful but they never came.
In 2012 we got animated series Tron: Uprising, which was a great continuation and was taking us deeper in the world of Tron, but a second season never followed and any hope of any future projects was met with silence.
However, I remain hopeful that the big players decide to re-boot, pun not intended, Tron for it has the potential to create a universe as big as Star Wars and Star Trek.
Before I sign off, I highly recommend Tron: Betrayal which was published in 2010 by Marvel Comics. It serves as a great opening leading up to the events of Legacy. End of line.
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