Marvel & Star Wars Are Why Disney Cancelled Tron 3 Says Director
Tron 3 was canceled by Disney because of Star Wars and Marvel, says Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinki. Before taking to the skies with Tom Cruise as director of Top Gun: Maverick, Kosinski in 2010 resurrected another long-dormant ‘80s title by directing a sequel to 1982’s Tron. Unfortunately Tron did not take off as a new Disney franchise, despite Tron: Legacy grossing a respectable $400 million at the worldwide box office.
The original Tron of course was itself not exactly a massive box office success for Disney. Despite boasting early computer effects and interesting sci-fi themes, the film made just $33 million on a reported budget of $17 million. But Tron did go on to become a cult film, which is why Disney ultimately decided to go ahead with Tron: Legacy as a potential franchise-launching science fiction property. Starring original Tron actor Jeff Bridges, the sequel boasted amazing effects as it depicted a virtual reality world, and also featured an acclaimed score from Daft Punk. Though the movie didn’t do as well as Disney hoped, it did garner its own cult following, leading to hopes of Tron 3. And indeed something involving Tron appears to still be moving ahead at Disney, as Jared Leto indicated earlier in 2022 when he discussed the Tron project he has been attached to for a few years.
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That Leto-led Tron project is of course reported to be directed by Garth Evans (at last update) and not Tron: Legacy’s Kosinski. As Kosinski just related to Vulture in a new interview, his swing at a third Tron movie was in fact canceled by Disney in 2015 for reasons that he says he fully understands. Kosinski explained:
I got so close. I really tried. I got close
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