Tron’s producer reveals why it took 15 years to create Tron: Ares and if Tron: Legacy is Canon

After years of waiting, Tron: Ares This autumn is finally coming to cinemas, promising to be the most ambitious voice in Tron Franchising again.

The story follows the technical magnate Julian Dillinger, played by Evan Peterswhich tries to extract digital beings from the grid and in the real world as an unlimited army of soldiers. But a program, Ares, gave birth to Jared LetoHe begins to remember who it was once and could have his agenda to make.

Recently, some members of the press have visited the set of Tron: Ares And I talked to the manufacturer Justin Springerwho opened on the long way to make a third Tron film, because it took us so much time and how it binds Tron: Legacy.

“During the inheritance, I was talking to Steven Lisberger, the creator of Tron, on what was thinking when the idea of ​​Tron came to him, and he was saying, at the end of the 70s and the early 1980s, there was an obsession with aliens and we continued to feel as if we were close to this first meeting.

“And it was like, always, she lived around the MIT, and there was a lot of computers, new technologies developed on the campus there … he said: ‘I started thinking about what would happen if the intelligent life did not come from space, but came from inside the car and what if we created it and how would it have been?” And I thought, this is a great concept for a movie. “

Springer described the entire concept of Tron as a first contact story, only the one that takes place within a computer.

“It is really a first meeting film, more than anything else, and it is not in space. But it comes from within this machine, and we created it, and only because we created it, does this mean that we cannot control it? And if we can, we should? You know, where does it become sufficiently advanced that it should be outside our control?”

That central idea remained the basis of any attempt to continue the franchise, including the long stall Tron: Ascensionwhich was originally in development after the inheritance. While some have hypothesized Tron: Ares It was just a reworking of that abandoned sequel, Springer Chiarfied:

“This is a new story, but in a recent interview, Joseph Kaczynski has mentioned … The fact that part of the DNA is here. During the development process, it was a conscious decision to develop some of these things in ascension, or was it just an organic thing that happened?

“It’s like, ‘oh, well, now we have to really check here to ensure that we are not just copying everything.'”

He continued:

“There are only ideas that we always liked, and I developed it with Joe and I developed it with Joachim Rønning before, and many of us did. And so, really, it is always that main idea that I felt from Lisberger in 2010.

“This was conceptually as that film was, how the ascension would have been, and then we abandoned a sequel at that point, but we kept the basic concept, because we still felt relevant.”

So why did he want 15 years? According to Springer, the concept has become more timely over the years and the technology to make Tron on the screen has finally reached the vision.

“I mean, one thing that is interesting is that a lot of time has passed since the development process and a lot of time from the inheritance, but the interesting thing is that with each year that has passed, the idea that does not become dated becomes actually more relevant.

“At this moment, this concept for a film is more in the zeitgeist than it has ever been, and therefore we have just chased that idea for a long time, not to mention the technologically ability to produce a light cycle in the real world or do some of the visual effects that we are talking about doing. We will be able to do a better job now than to do 10 years ago.”

Of course, as a fan of Tron: Legacy I wondered if Ares We will recognize that movie cliffhanger. The 2010 film ended with Sam Flynn (played by Garrett Hedlund) Flee the grid together with Quorra (Olivia Wilde), the last surviving ISO and bringing it to the real world. That thread left fans eager to see what happened later.

Springer offered a careful answer, saying:

“We are not telling that story right now … in deciding to go on to a new story. But we are not even canceling that, therefore it is still out there. But this story concerns, how, in terms of it, because, yes, it is only cleaner to tell.

“Basically we are starting in the same space where he is a character coming to this world and what will be his experience through this story? And therefore it is not designed to cancel the end of the inheritance. It is not continuing to continue that story.

“It is still in the world. It is still happened. We will only say that … it has yet happened. And there is nothing we are doing to say that he has not done so. And there are things in the DNA that keep him alive, even in our history.”

This means Inheritance it is still a canon, me tooF Ares He will not directly collect the story of Sam and Quorra. The new film will instead push the idea of ​​the programs that cross in our world in a different direction, which seems to bind to that cliffhanger in a thinner way.

We won’t have to wait much longer to see how everything goes. Tron: Ares It affects cinemas on October 10th.