I'll amen the thoughts in your post... I would LOVE to see another TRON movie. I loved it as a kid, still love watching the DVD now and thoroughly enjoyed playing through the TRON 2.0 game...

In fact, it may be one of the few single-player games that gets a repeat from me; I play enough different video games that I rarely have time to repeat a single-player one, but this is worth it.

I wouldn't mind them even making the TRON 2.0 story into a movie; it was a pretty cool idea... and I was under the impression when the game was initially in development that the intention for the movie was just that. I may be wrong, but that was the impression I was under.

Anyway, I'll cast my vote for a sequel. It would rock so hard.

That would be so awesome if a new TRON movie finally made it to production. I loved the first TRON, and would be so excited if they finally made a sequel. Come on Steven Lisberger, bring it to us!

I think a sequel would be really neat. I think they should use the same computers that created 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow' (most of it was created on computers; very little of it real which only included a handful of actors and sets).

http://www.armagetronad.net/
Here is a free Light Cycle game based on the Tron movie. It is a good price; FREE. :) There is another one at http://sourceforge.net/projects/armagetron/ . It is alos FREE. I like those prices. The first one is way faster than the second one but both are fun. :)

The orginal TRON movie was probably an intentional write-off for Disney. They wrote a script around Version 1.0 digital effects that they had already developed; this alone explains why the script was so so utterly lame, since the graphics came first; the script had to work with whatever they already had.

The graphics, especially some of the industrial design, were very good, probably because the designers originally had nobody looking over their shoulder, so the did what they liked. It influenced product design, especially motorcycles and helmets, for several years afterwards, though this could have been the other way around .. the design studios took the opportunity to push these new designs into a movie so that they would seen by a lot of people and thus popularized.

By pushing a great deal of their digital graphics development budget into TRON's movie production cost, Disney created a huge write-off on these expenses. Later movies were able to benefit very much from the new technology of course.

The movie "Red Planet" of about six years ago is another Disney digital graphics write off, except that it was even more lame than TRON despite hiring a great cast and then utterly wasting them on the absurd script that was necessary to cast the already-existing animations into a truly dumb movie.

I do not consider TRON or Red Planet to be lame. I really liked the movies. Perhaps if you had said 'IMO they are lame' then it would be acceptable.

TRON wasn't the best movie story wise, BUT as a whole it was the greatest Movie of the 80's. Especially for an aspiring young computer geek. The idea of being thrust inside your PC, where the component's functions can seem alive due to there interactions. The TRON 2.0 PC game was excellent, because it helped you graphically see how computers work, or close enough to it.

Both the original movie and the Game 2.0 are revolutionary!... They are both ahead of their time and both Executive money and the cult geeks know it. If this movie is to be made, it needs to both technical and story script to very well done. Here is an opportunity to put the concept of TRON where it needs to be. The thought of using a back drop like Sky Captain is small minded. If you watch the opening scenes in Starwars 3 / Revenge of the Sith, what you see is great depth perception. And that’s what I loved about the game… I literally jumped for joy when I first saw the article about this Cult Classic… Do it right

Both TRON and Red Planet were absolutely excoriated by most movie critics for their terrible scripts, and deserved every bit of the ridicule.

Red Planet was so bad that I promised myself I would never go to another movie again without at least reading a couple of reviews first. All of the pretty eye candy at the end of Red Planet was really lame, since it was so meaningless. There were about 3 minutes of very memorable scenes, but they showed all of them in the trailer. The rest of the movie was just plain hokey.

At least TRON was very revolutionary in its day. The graphics in Red Planet, while very pretty, were JUST old hat CGI, been there done that in so many other movies before. Even if there was some impressive new effects, that isn't really enough for me anymore.

To do the CGI right these days, you also need a script, as in the Lord of the Rings or the Harry Potter movies. The CGI needs to tell a meaningful story or it is just a waste of time.

There have already been 3 sequels to TRON: All of them with "Matrix" in the title.

Kind of a redundant theme now, after the Matrix, isn't it?

Matrix was similar to TRON but not a sequel to it. Matrix was a simulation of the real word. TRON was the computer world where Flint was digitized into.

Just because critics did not like does not mean it was a bad movie. I have found this to be true many times but not all the time.