Disney Executive Says "The Time Is Right" for TRON 3 and They Have a "Great Script"

It was recently reported that Disney was still developing a sequel to Tron: Legacy and that Jared Leto was involved. It was also said that Tron 3 could actually bring back the original cast members.

Now, Disney music executive Mitchell Leib has offered a little insight into what is going on with Tron 3 and that Disney is definitely looking at the possibility of finally making it. While a guest on the Light the Fuse podcast, Leib said:

"Now with Disney+, I think there's opportunities to be creating content that we otherwise wouldn't have been able to create, you know because we're in the movie business. We're in the big movie business, and unless it's a big movie idea we don't make small movies. We're only after basically billion dollar box office hits. On the one hand, that's great. On the other hand, that's a very narrow sleeve to operate in, and Disney+ I think is going to afford us the opportunity to expand and get much more diversified in the kind of content we can create. And Daft Punk has a bit of a television and movie development company, and all kinds of things they're into, businesses they're into. So I had lunch with Paul Hahn to further a bit of a starting conversation that we're looking at making a sequel to Tron now, we're looking at Tron 3. And we've got a great script, I mean a really phenomenal script that we're very excited about. Whereas the timing wasn't right to have done it years ago, I think we feel like the timing is right now, and I feel like we've learned a lot of lessons from that last movie."

That’s great to hear! Leib went on to say that one of the most important pieces to making this happen is getting Daft Punk on board for the sequel, which I don’t think any fans would complain about. After all, their soundtrack for Tron: Legacy was incredible!

"The right and first thing to do is to try and bring Daft Punk and would they want to. And the answer is they're always open tp anything and everything, but you gotta take it as it comes and see what the circumstances are. We don't even know who would be directing it, I mean we're hopeful Joe Kosinski would come back and do another one. A lot of things gotta fall into the right places, but certainly there's an open-mindedness to it.”

If this is the case, and there is a completed script, I imagine that’s the same script that was written when director Joe Kosinski was still attached to the project, which was titled Tron: Ascension. That movie would have seen the machine world of The Grid invade the real world.

When previously talking about his story, director Joseph Kosinski talked about the story for the sequel, saying:

"The movie was called, 'TRON: Ascension'… What I’m excited about is the concept, which is an invasion movie from inside the machine coming out as opposed to one we’ve usually seen. So we hinted at that at the end of Legacy with Quorra coming out, but the idea for Ascension was a movie that was, the first act was in the real world, the second act was in the world of TRON, or multiple worlds of TRON, and the third act was totally in the real world. And I think that really opens up, blows open the concept of TRON in a way that would be thrilling to see on screen. But there’s also a really interesting character study in Quorra and a 'Stranger in a Strange Land,' trying to figure out where she belongs having lived in the real world for a few years, and where does she fit in."

He went on to explain what Quorra would have been able to do in the real world as the first digital human hybrid:

"I don’t see them having superpowers. I don’t see them being able to shoot lasers from their eyes or do what I would consider to be a superhero-type movie. But in her DNA itself, her being the first digital-human hybrid, there’s something in her being that allows objects from inside the Grid to exist in the real world and makes them permanent, so that was the idea. So I think the idea is strong, it’s just a matter of the right time and the right place and the stars aligning as they have to do for movies."

It’s great to hear that there is some actual movement on Tron 3! Hopefully, everything ends up working out and it gets made, because I want to see it! It would also be cool to see Kosinski come back and direct it as well.