We already mentioned that Tron is possibly still out in the Grid and now free of CLU's control. Still, there is more than enough material out there for a third entry. Add in the absolutely massive marketing push the film had and the numbers for what was supposed to kickstart a blossoming franchise just didn't add up for Disney. Although about 300 million dollars and profit doesn't sound like a bad payday, most of that comes from the international box office as the film just barely broke even domestically. Turns out fans would have to wait quite a while to find out, as Tron: Legacy wasn't the hit that Disney was expecting. An interesting plot development that could perhaps be addressed in a sequel? Though Kevin sacrifices himself to help Sam and his companion Quorra ( Olivia Wilde) escape, it seemed that Kevin's vision for the perfect system was no more, although though there was a loose plot thread with Tron falling into the digital sea as he began to break his mind control programming. The rogue program has turned the once-free Grid into a malevolent dictatorship, even going as far as to turn innocent programs like Tron into mindless soldiers. He discovers that, for the last couple of decades, Kevin has been imprisoned in a new version of the Grid that he created, with his captor being a deranged clone of himself by the name of CLU. This time audiences follow the exploits of Kevin Flynn's son, Sam ( Garrett Hedlund), as he attempts to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance. History would ultimately repeat itself almost thirty years later when Disney decided to produce a sequel to Tron, titled Tron: Legacy (2010). Despite lukewarm financial numbers, Tron still amassed a dedicated following and gained traction as a cult classic, and that didn't go unnoticed by Disney. Alas, Tron also wasn't a huge box office hit, not even doubling up its initial budget. With fully computer-generated environments and vehicles, nothing quite like Tron existed at the time, and it became easy for fans of the film to fall in love with the film's entirely unique world. It's easy to dismiss the original Tron as a product of the 1980s, but at the time these special effects were far ahead of their time.
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