RIP ‘Tron 3,’ Killed by Marvel and Star Wars, Director Joseph Kosinski Says
thewrap.comVulture.Perhaps now better known as the director of “Top Gun: Maverick,” Kosinski said he had a three-quel called “Tron: Ascention” was fully written and storyboarded before it was de-rezzed.
The script turned the “Tron” concept inside-out by bringing computerized characters out into the real world – an idea that “Legacy” spent much of its runtime setting up, as the film ended with grid-only character Quora (Olivia Wilde) arriving on Earth’s material plane.The $400 million global box office haul for “Legacy” wasn’t enough to get it immediately greenlit, and along came shiner objects at Disney, Kosinski said. “Legacy” was a success by all standards of a “cult hit,” however, from its glassy, glow-in-the-dark stylings to an exhilarating soundtrack by Daft Punk – but for now, it stands as the franchise’s end of line.“I got so close.
I really tried,” Kosinski said. “I got close in 2015, and Disney pulled the plug on it. I hadn’t built anything, but I had the whole movie storyboarded and written. … But it was a different Disney by 2015.
When I made ‘Tron: Legacy,’ they didn’t own Marvel; they didn’t own Star Wars. We were the play for fantasy and science fiction.
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