Tron was an amazing movie when it came out, and watching it you still have a feeling of it being ahead of its time and filled with a healthy dose of style and cool effects, as well as some big names in early guises, perfectly proportioned to become a classic movie.
So it’s not surprise to hear today that it is being revisited by Disney, Coming Soon said:
Disney has hired screenwriters Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal to write a remake of Tron, the 1982 Steven Lisberger film about a computer programmer who gets sucked into the parallel world of a computer program, reports Variety.
It’s interesting that the timing has come round after the Matrix franchise has come to it’s last stand with the online videogame Matrix Online (Ingenious title!) to allow everyone to take their place in the Matrix for a nice fat monthly fee. Anyway, the ideas are echoed and the writers want to bring it slightly closer by updating for modern ideals of computing:
“We are contemporizing it, taking these ideas that were ahead of the curve and applying them to the present, and we feel the film now has a chance to resonate with a young audience,” said Klugman.
Sternthal said the new conceit is that the computer programmer gets trapped in a cyberworld, so that the film can utilize the Internet.
Well they could end up doing a dumbed down Matrix, by that I mean Matrix without all the philosophy speeches, or they could really flatter the original and bring it forward with a modern day view. Let’s hope it’s the latter, but I think this is one to watch out for and see if Disney can bring it back.
