Looks like that Tron sequel is still chugging its way along into existance. Some news surfaced about some changes being made in the marketing as well as the synopsis.
First off, they claim that the sequel will now be titled TRZ instead of Tr2n – anyone know what that even means? Additionally, they include a synopsis, but if you read it carefully, it sounds like the same plot as the first movie. What is going on here? As excited as I was based on test footage, I’m getting a bit worried – at least if this turns out to be true and not inaccurate information.
Here is the new plot synopsis: “After being transported into the surreal landscape of a mainframe computer to destroy an intruder, a programmer finds himself allied with the leader of a rebellion against a corrupt cyber-entity.” In the original Tron, the programmer Flynn (played by Jeff Bridges) was transported into the computer world. He joined with Tron, the leader of a rebellion, to fight a “corrupt cyber-entity” as well.
I was pretty excited about the prospect of a Tron Sequel being made, and even forgave the nonsense leetspeek title “Tr2n” as it doesn’t even work by leet standards (as low as they are grammatically) but now it appears they are changing the name to TRZ? Like that makes MORE sense? And the plot is narrowed down to basically be the same thing as the first?
In any one line synopsis of a film, this can be interpreted into a very different movie, it just doesn’t sound like it on the surface. It would make logical sense that the last time a rebellion formed it was successful by the addition of a real person being sucked into their world. Makes sense they might try it again to overthrow another digital regime. The trailers made it look like Jeff Bridges’ character might have been the badguy (or a digital evolution of him) or a goodguy with some pretty extreme methods. but that is also speculation, so we will have to see how it plays out.
