Bruce Boxleitner Discusses TRON 3 Being Cancelled, Says He's Moved On

Like many of you, I was so sad to hear that Disney shut down Tron 3. The movie was on the verge of being greenlit, and all of a sudden from out of nowhere Disney decided not to move forward with it. 

During an interview with /Film, Tron star Bruce Boxleitner talks about the third film being cancelled and said:

“I don’t really care anymore. I’m done with it. I’ve moved on. I hate to say that but it’s been too up and down for me. I would rather not just keep going. I don’t want to repeat my career anymore. That’d be like, ‘Let’s reboot Scarecrow and Mrs. King.’ No, I’m not interested. Or Babylon 5.”

So even if another ten to twenty years passed by before another Tron film is made, it sounds like Boxleitner won't be coming back to reprise his role. He's supported the franchise all of these years, so it can't be easy for him to say that. He continues:

“It breaks my heart, but I understand the times move on. Disney, it’s not in their [wheelhouse] anymore. The animated series [had] a lot of promise, they didn’t stick with that either. I don’t think they really want it anymore. I think they’ve got Star Wars. They’ve got Marvel. Legacy was successful. I’m not sure that they really had that much interest anymore. I hate to say that because I think there’s a lot more to go.”

I do know for a fact that there are still people over at Disney that want it, but there is one chairman on the Disney board that killed it right before it got the greenlight. It seriously came so close! So why isn't the movie happening? Because of what Boxleitner said: Disney has Marvel and Star Wars, those properties take care of their "boy" market, and they also have all of the live-action reboots of their animated films that they're working on. They don't really need Tron, even thought the fans want it. I imagine this is the same reason why we haven't seen a Gargoyles movie. Disney Pictures is only going to be releasing about three live-action movies a year outside of Marvel and Star Wars. Tron seems like such a huge Disney staple, though, that they would have kept it alive. Boxleitner goes on to say:

“I’m always about looking forward, but I thought TRON was the one thing that would keep going forward because we’re living it. It’s not like going back and revisiting, trying to remake the original like everything else does. Everything is reboot, reboot, reboot. Obviously there’s something politically within but I know that they were in preproduction heavily. I know that the options for Olivia [Wilde] and Garrett [Hedlund] were picked up. That was all public knowledge, [reported in] The Hollywood Reporter. I’ve got a feeling they’re going to play it safe with their old [formula]. I mean, Tim Burton’s doing Dumbo. They’re going to make live-action out of their old animated classics. Apparently, that was successful. They also have Star Wars. Let’s not neglect that, and Marvel. Maybe they just felt they had enough of that sci-fi. We were the only real science fiction. Star Wars is fantasy, sword and sorcery fantasy with a spaceship. Marvel is superhero comics. Star Wars, yes, is science fiction. There’s fantasy elements as well, but Marvel is not. It’s comic books. It’s really not sci-fi. It’s not thinking science fiction. Maybe they decided they don’t want to do science fiction.”

Who knows if we'll ever see a Tron movie or animated series again. It doesn't sound like it, and it's a bloody shame. It's such a freakin' cool franchise! 

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