Some Hollywood news reports just don’t add up. “Tom Cruise to star in Top Gun 3” – well yes, obviously. “James Cameron to keep making weirder and weirder Avatar sequels until he’s in his 90s” – yep, inevitably. “Tron 3 moving forward with Jared Leto” – ahem, really? The article in the Hollywood Reporter this week poses far more questions than it answers.
Why is Disney going ahead with Tron 3 when 2010’s feeble Tron: Legacy was hardly a box office or critical smash, despite rehiring Jeff Bridges, spending millions on CGI and getting Daft Punk to do the soundtrack? Is it really a good idea to expand the world of the geeky cult classic 1982 original into a macro-universe of shiny digital pixels? Well, that one has an answer: no it isn’t, or Tron: Legacy would have been a lot more noteworthy. I cannot remember anything about the sequel other than that Bridges played two opposing characters, at least one of which had been really poorly digitally de-aged, and that Michael Sheen had a role as a pompous inhabitant of the Tron inner-verse who seemed to be eternally surrounded by pneumatic, near-mute space babes.
