Disney Reportedly Pulls the Plug on TRON 4 After TRON: ARES Crashes at the Box Office, Is Jared Leto to Blame?
Disney Reportedly Pulls the Plug on TRON 4 After TRON: ARES Crashes at the Box Office, Is Jared Leto to Blame? — GeekTyrant
He’s the reason I didn’t go see it 🤷♂️
Same.
He was the worst thing about Bladerunner 2049.
NOTE: Ares died on the way back to his home planet.
"An infortunate training incident…"
Here's a signed affidavit that we will never here about Ares ever again
I didn't even know it was a thing until a couple days ago. I think it didn't do well because it's Tron. Tron just doesn't do well in the theaters.
I'm sure they'll try to reboot Tron again in 15-20 years and the exact same thing will happen, as is tradition
When I saw the teaser trailer, I was excited. I'm a massive TRON fan. I have lots of memorabilia, and I love seeing them every day.
Then I saw the first full trailer, and I saw that Jared Leto was going to be in the movie. I got worried, I've never liked a role that Leto has played. He's just creepy and awful.
I hope this isn't the end of TRON, but I hope it's the end of Leto. However, I hear he's playing Skeletor in the new He-Man, so I guess he gets to kill another franchise.
I liked him thought he did a good job in WeCrashed because he was playing a weirdo the audience was meant to hate. As always, he brought a certain I-can't-stand-this-man energy to the role
Isn't he like some weird fucking cultist? Why can't they just hire normal people.
Yeah, he's got an underage rape cult and should be in jail.
He was also the producer of the movie.
Ah, now it's starting to all make sense.
Between shit like this and all those articles about Trump that are like "Is Trump breaking the law?", Betteridge's Law of Headlines is officially fucking dead.
I never know whos coping more, executives who think they can make a successful Tron movie or Tron fans who insist there's potential in the franchise
Like most of Hollywood right now, if executives and producers stopped trying to make everything into generic action franchise movie, then it might be good. Tron was always a cult movie. Small loyal following who dragged countless friends family and living spouses to go sit for 2 hours to watch it.
If they would have kept it an ultra sci fi movie truly for the fans - it could have done moderately well. But they don't want moderately well, they want ultra blockbuster so tried to make it appeal to everyone. So it appeals instead to no one, and here we are. Another franchise on the fire.
If attaching a poorly thought through plot onto a unique sci fi premise with stunning visuals, a unique score and mediocre acting isn't what the cult following of Tron were after, then I don't think people ever really liked this film as much as they claim.
Side thought: gauging whether a movie is good or bad based on opening weeks in theaters is stupid. I have never gone to an opening weekend and don’t think I’ve met anyone who has.
Opening weekend doesn't tell you if it's good or bad. It does give you a good idea if it's going to make a profit. This one is going to be a big money looser.
Of course you have. You just haven't talked to them about it.
Odds are good you've even met a murderer and didn't know it.
This is the most absurd post….
Opening weekend is all that matters when it comes to a movies success. It has always been that way. There are very few movies where the financial success does not come from opening weekend.
Without making money on residuals like rentals and syndication box office is how we measure value
Is Jared Leto to Blame?
Jared Leto is always to blame.
Fuck Jared Leto. Sole reason myself and many others refuse to pay for this movie.
When I heard they were bringing Tron out to the real world. I lost all interest personally. I'll watch it streaming when it comes to that, but skip the theaters for this one.
They first did that "real world" thing in Legacy, though, with Quorra. I will say they did a good job with the concept in this one.
Personally I sought it out in IMAX because this is one of those big special effects and sound movies that makes theater worth it. It looked and sounded great.
yes
I have no idea what the movie is supposed to be about, which is the first two strikes. But even if that weren’t the case, I won’t watch anything with a lead rapist.
I don’t know much about Tron, but it seems you have to be 50+ to appreciate it.
I think if any of your childhood was in the 1980's and you were a boy, and a bit of a nerd you'd appreciate.
And yes I do still have my tron record album /comic book.
I mourn the loss of my original movie poster weekly.
There was a new Tron movie? Shit. Is it any good?
The NIN sound track is worth a listen. Otherwise apparently, no.
I do enjoy a bit of nin. That's sad to hear, though. I love Tron. I even liked the shitty second one.
It's quite good. It mostly ignores and retcons Legacy somewhat. But the story that it does build is interesting in its own right. A worthy addition to the Tron history.
I've gotten 2 votes for no and one for yes. That's good enough for me to give it a shot.
I enjoyed it for the visual and audio aesthetic. The story is a bit meh, but it's Tron so that's what I expected going in.
I bought the soundtrack… just not interested in a Disney movie right now. Disney is on my shit list and groceries are eating up my entertainment budget.
Is it Tron'in time yet?
Is Leto to blame? As the lead he will carry the blame, that is how it works when you are the lead actor for a movie. This whole project is just mind boggling. It is another Joh Carter esque Disney shit show..
There have been three Tron movies in the last 45 years. Did anyone really think that is a good recipe to generate hype?
It is completely unclear what Tron even is. I know it is a character from the first movie. The character was non existent in the last movie and didn’t really make an appearance until the last 2 minutes of the movie in such a silly wanna be dramatic moment.
Bruce Boxlieter isn’t exactly an A lister that will bring out the crowd.
Like pretty much everyone posting in this thread I am not a Leto fan. He sure doesn’t get me to watch a movie
I am not a huge NIN fan. Is that band still a thing? As a movie nerd I am aware of the scores and soundtracks Reznor has done, who the fuck though that NIN would bring out the crowds?
Also without a debate the best part of the last Tron movie was the Daft Punk soundtrack. WHY NOT BRING THEM BACK? Maybe the producers tried, but for the love of god use dump trucks of money…
I am a hue Tron fan and have been one for 45 years. The problem is the movies are utter duds. Also of all the major studios Disney is just the worst. All the stuff they make is just garbage.
Give fans the Tron movie they want, without an actor they hate, and they might just go see it
That's the thing, legacy was the perfect setup for a sequel, and they just dropped it.