Tron 3 To Begin Filming Fall 2015

[FSTargetDrone]

I really enjoyed Tron Legacy a lot, so this is great news to me:

Tron 3 to be filmed in Vancouver this fall
By Kenneth Chan
12:40 PM PDT, Tue March 10, 2015

The sequel to 2010’s Tron: Legacy will be filmed in Vancouver beginning this fall.

Walt Disney Pictures has green lighted the third film in the Tron series, sources tell Vancity Buzz entertainment contributor Lindsay Barker. Filming is scheduled to begin on October 5, 2015.

The project has been in development since the success of the 2010 film, which raked in $400 million with a $170 million budget.

At this time, only Garrett Hedlund has been confirmed to return to the cast. In the previous film, Hedlund starred as Sam Flynn, the son of the 1982 film’s original character Kevin Flynn (played by Jeff Bridges) who became stuck in the Grid’s digital world for two decades. The character Quorra, a skilled Grid warrior and confidante to Kevin, was portrayed by Olivia Wilde.

A majority of Tron: Legacy was shot at Canadian Motion Picture Park in Burnaby while some ‘real world’ scenes were filmed at the Shangri-La Vancouver Hotel (ENCOM headquarters), the Lions Gate Bridge (final escape scene) and neighbourhoods in East Vancouver.

Tron 3 is not the only big budget science-fiction Hollywood blockbuster being filmed in Vancouver this year. Production for Star Trek 3 is scheduled to begin on June 1, which will involve the reconstruction of the Enterprise set within a local movie studio.

[Zor]

Looking forward to it.

Zor

[Iroscato]

I'll say this for Legacy; the effects were fucking amazing, and the music was even better. I can't actually...remember any of it, but I have a feeling it wasn't terrible

[Sidewinder]

Well, they had the decency to NOT rush and crap out a sequel a year, like some other franchises I could mention. (I'm looking at you, 'Saw'.) I hope the completed film's STORY reflects the studio's decision to take its time- at the very least, it does NOT make me want to reach through the screen and strangle the characters for their stupidity. (I'm looking at you, Klaatu from 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' remake.)

[Lagmonster]

The Tron universe is one where I see a truly unbelievable amount of potential for storytelling about man and his technology, but they never do anything substantive with it. The imagery, the ideas, are incredible modern mythmaking. Just...DO something with it. Something big, something wild.

[Gaidin]

Well, they had the decency to NOT rush and crap out a sequel a year, like some other franchises I could mention. (I'm looking at you, 'Saw'.)

I'm just saying a sequel a year is more like a laxative instead of an actual sequel. We'll probably be getting an actual story....just saying.

[Flagg]

No Olivia Wilde (how awesome is the idea of Alien beings being created spontaneously on the fringes of the Grid, or beyond, as if maybe the Grid is unending, or possible even a digital representation of the entire universe or a universe unto itself?) no watch. No CGI Bridges, definitely watch.

[Flagg]

Well, they had the decency to NOT rush and crap out a sequel a year, like some other franchises I could mention. (I'm looking at you, 'Saw'.) I hope the completed film's STORY reflects the studio's decision to take its time- at the very least, it does NOT make me want to reach through the screen and strangle the characters for their stupidity. (I'm looking at you, Klaatu from 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' remake.)

Horror franchises are notorious for shitting out at least a movie a year, a lot of times with spinoffs and other garbage due to the fact that studios generally spend more on advertising than on actual production, and people with no taste and sadists who love torture porn (or the new PG-13 "horror" movies that just involve creepy dead girls and jump scares). They do this because horror movies are a fucking guaranteed moneymaking goldmine.

[biostem]

It'd be interesting if they brought the TRON concept into the Internet - even TRON Legacy took place in an isolated mainframe/server - how would things work out in a worldwide networked environment? Also, if the ISOs arose, spontaneously, in such an isolated environment, what's floating around online, in the TRON universe?

[Lagmonster]

It's worth pointing out that in the Tron universe, horrendously powerful AI just sort of self-assemble from chess games running on 1980s technology.

Note for noobs: The Master Control Program was a humble chess program that was 'massively updated' to run ENCOM's networks and grew within a few years to a level where it was idly considering how easy it would be to take over the world.

[Patroklos]

Eh, your average teenager often ends up contemplating the same thing with pretty basic programming :p

[biostem]

It's worth pointing out that in the Tron universe, horrendously powerful AI just sort of self-assemble from chess games running on 1980s technology.

Note for noobs: The Master Control Program was a humble chess program that was 'massively updated' to run ENCOM's networks and grew within a few years to a level where it was idly considering how easy it would be to take over the world.

One oddity is that, for the most part, while seemingly intelligent, most programs, (referring to TRON 1), did seem perfectly happy doing nothing more than their original purpose - like the retirement/interest program Flynn meets, who was being forced to play in the games...

Also, IIRC, Flynn was immediately in his program outfit upon materializing inside the computer, whereas the main character from TRON Legacy had to change into it...

[Flagg]

It's worth pointing out that in the Tron universe, horrendously powerful AI just sort of self-assemble from chess games running on 1980s technology.

Note for noobs: The Master Control Program was a humble chess program that was 'massively updated' to run ENCOM's networks and grew within a few years to a level where it was idly considering how easy it would be to take over the world.

I don't give the slightest crap, because TRON Legacy and Wikipedia told me everything I need to know so I can avoid the terribleness of 80's CGI.

[Metahive]

It's worth pointing out that in the Tron universe, horrendously powerful AI just sort of self-assemble from chess games running on 1980s technology.

Note for noobs: The Master Control Program was a humble chess program that was 'massively updated' to run ENCOM's networks and grew within a few years to a level where it was idly considering how easy it would be to take over the world.

I don't give the slightest crap, because TRON Legacy and Wikipedia told me everything I need to know so I can avoid the terribleness of 80's CGI.

There isn't actually all that much CG in the first Tron, they handpainted quite a lot of things still and I actually think the movie looks all the better for it, especially better than the all CG and, in my opinion, rather dull and half-arsed Tron Legacy.

[Havok]

I am in love with Legacy. It's not an especially strong movie, but there is just something about it. I can watch it over and over.

[Lagmonster]

Legacy had the balls to show us a stylish new fictional world, one that didn't borrow style from recognizable science fiction or fantasy.

[Replicant]

Legacy was an awesome movie that just screams at you that with the smallest bit of expansion that movie could have been a completely awesome trilogy.

[biostem]

TRON 2 answered some questions, but introduced a whole lot more. We now know that programs/items from the virtual world can be brought to the real one, (namely Quorra). It would be very interesting if this became a big part of the 3rd movie - either someone getting into the computer who shouldn't, or something getting out. Imagine the ramifications of being able to write a program on a computer, then being able to bring it, as a new life, into the real world. Or what if things like the various aircraft or vehicles could be brought over - we're going way beyond 3D printing, here.

Given that most of the inhabitants are programs, I wonder if a user who enters the system will become visible on said system - could an outside user delete or edit/change them? Imagine your surprise if you were in a system and some outside user changed your gender flag from M to F, (or visa-versa).

[Replicant]

TRON 2 answered some questions, but introduced a whole lot more. We now know that programs/items from the virtual world can be brought to the real one, (namely Quorra). It would be very interesting if this became a big part of the 3rd movie - either someone getting into the computer who shouldn't, or something getting out. Imagine the ramifications of being able to write a program on a computer, then being able to bring it, as a new life, into the real world. Or what if things like the various aircraft or vehicles could be brought over - we're going way beyond 3D printing, here.

Given that most of the inhabitants are programs, I wonder if a user who enters the system will become visible on said system - could an outside user delete or edit/change them? Imagine your surprise if you were in a system and some outside user changed your gender flag from M to F, (or visa-versa).

CLU's plan was to fly his carrier along with all his troops into the real world. I am not sure how well that would work since the carrier would still have to obey real world physics unlike on the grid. So while your 3D printing idea has merit it is more due to the power of Flynn's laser and is technically a capability Flynn has had since the end of the first movie.

Sam mentioned that if he got out to the real work he would be able to delete CLU with the touch of a button, humans brought into the grid might be more akin to a virus, not sitting in a specific folder and deleteable. I would also bet that Flynn had safeguards in place so that when he was on the grid he did not register as a program and could no be deleted the same way.

One thing to note is that Sam and his Dad did not register the same way on the Grid. Flynn was more like a superuser or a portion of the operating system. All he had to do was touch a surface and he could interact with it. He created brakes on the elevator just by touching the wall, he created some sort of shockwave entering the End of Line night club, and he interacted with and pulled back the bridge just by touching the ground, though that might be an auto-function so that no program tried to leave when Flynn himself was leaving.

[Lagmonster]

The Grid was weird in a number of ways, such as that wounded humans bled liquid blood, but the one that bothered me was that Flynn appeared physically aged. There was zero reason for him to age in biological terms, especially since Clu didn't. Which suggests that Flynn's computer had a feature to simulate biological aging processes only for humans who entered the Grid, when it would have been clearly more advantageous to let digital humans be immortal.

Beyond that, it cannot ever be understated how although everything in the TRON real world seems normal and mundane to us, their technological capabilities in some areas is on par with Star Trek.

[Havok]

Where do all the programs come from on the closed system? In Tron the MCP was hijacking and stealing programs created by people outside of ENCOM.

Also each program had a user, remember that Flynn's first program/hack got killed and he never wrote another one, Allen was Tron's user etc.

The ISOs were unique in that they were created within the system without users doing it, however that insinuates that all the programs on the grid were in fact created by users, but obviously they aren't all created by Flynn.

[Dass.Kapital]

Where do all the programs come from on the closed system? In Tron the MCP was hijacking and stealing programs created by people outside of ENCOM.

Also each program had a user, remember that Flynn's first program/hack got killed and he never wrote another one, Allen was Tron's user etc.

The ISOs were unique in that they were created within the system without users doing it, however that insinuates that all the programs on the grid were in fact created by users, but obviously they aren't all created by Flynn.

As you pointed out. In the first film all the programs were created 'by' some one and hence reflected(?) their creators.

(Now, that's an interesting aspect to think on in itself)

So... in the second movie... Where is the physical stuff actually running this new grid? Is it the set up we see hidden in the basement of the old arcade? Is it some where within the .... (I don't know what they were. Server racks?) within the upper levels of the corporate tower?

Where ever it was... it would be assumed that Flynn simply 'copied' the old MCP's set up and hence all the programs were thence 'duplicated' or 'backed up' by this event. There's also nothing stopping Flynn 'importing' other programs etc while he was setting up the... place/thing/Grid 2 into which he was planning to go into.

Also, other than Cora, we've never seen anything from inside the grid transfer over into the analog world.

I, for one, am looking forwards to seeing what hey do with another movie.

[biostem]

I thought a plot point in the second movie was that CLU couldn't create new programs, and was rounding up regular programs, and de-rezzing them, placing them in the games, or repurposing them, (I forget the exact term they were using).

Also, with the ISO's spontaneously forming from outside the grid, there's a potential source of new programs as well. I did find it odd, however, that apparently CLU had eradicated all of them, save Quorra - perhaps their birth/creation was a one-time event?

I'd also like to see how an enemy with access to CTRL+C, CTRL+V, would fair...

[Havok]

Did you miss the ENTIRE movie where they talk about 'the miracle'? That being the spontaneous creation of the ISOs. Geez dude. And they didn't form outside the grid, the whole server/world is the grid. They just formed outside the area where Flynn and CLU were working. It would be like programs spontaneously appearing on the D drive when all the coding your doing is on the C drive. ( I hope that makes sense. )

[Dass.Kapital]

Did you miss the ENTIRE movie where they talk about 'the miracle'? That being the spontaneous creation of the ISOs. Geez dude. And they didn't form outside the grid, the whole server/world is the grid. They just formed outside the area where Flynn and CLU were working. It would be like programs spontaneously appearing on the D drive when all the coding your doing is on the C drive. ( I hope that makes sense. )

True, true.

Though "The grid" in the second movie... it was not connected to everything 'outside' was it? Flynn had moved everything into the basement under the arcade store, right? It was completely isolated and such?

There was no other physical way for the programs within the grid to actually go/get any where else?

It wasn't like in the Tron 2 computer game where the bad guys were going to 'Digitize' themselves and then essentially 'hack' other computers from the inside with their Ninja-programs and stuff? (Assuming any one even remembers or played that game... way back when)

Much cheers to all.