I agree Lurkinghorror. So the young crowd would understand it today, and I'd be pleased as a TRON fan, too.

Ive always been a proponent of a remake, though I remember many fans despising the thought

Oh well, everyone has their own opinion.

I would also love a remake of Tron in computer game form. Get to re-live by playing in unchanged environments from the original movie. Wow, that would make my day.

lurkinghorror Wrote: TronFAQ Wrote: Trying to update it for today's audiences would not work out well. Why is that? The story, as it was originally told, seems like it would work just fine. Young hip programmer ripped off by corporation, attempts to hack his way into the system is instead digitized by the power hungry software ruling said corporation. Materializes on the game grid, encounters helpful security program, overthrows the tyrannical force controlling the system. I think today's audiences would respond quite a bit better to the audience of 1981. If anything, the story has much more resonance now than it did decades ago.

You have a point there, eespecially in today's technology-driven world. Back then computers weren't that big. Now, computers integrate into our everyday life almost irresistably.

Cam_the_Man Wrote: lurkinghorror Wrote: TronFAQ Wrote: Trying to update it for today's audiences would not work out well. Why is that? The story, as it was originally told, seems like it would work just fine. Young hip programmer ripped off by corporation, attempts to hack his way into the system is instead digitized by the power hungry software ruling said corporation. Materializes on the game grid, encounters helpful security program, overthrows the tyrannical force controlling the system. I think today's audiences would respond quite a bit better to the audience of 1981. If anything, the story has much more resonance now than it did decades ago. You have a point there, eespecially in today's technology-driven world. Back then computers weren't that big. Now, computers integrate into our everyday life almost irresistably.

Well Tron is almost real today. We sit and play MMORPGs, a virtual world "on the other side of the screen" (had to get that in). We make an Avatar instead of a program and in this virtual world it does what we tell it too, goes where we tell it to and interacts with other Avatars. All thats lacking is these programs to think for themselves and of course to be digitized into the system itself

But I think Tron would appeal more now than it ever has with todays booming computer games industry and especially with the birth of MMOs.

TronFAQ Wrote: Then why a Tron comic?

Well, as you know, the intent we had with the comic was to do a story dealing with how Tron became a prisoner, and how the MCP came to power. A prequel fleshing out the details of a story is a different subject. But because of Tron 2.0, which was still relatively new when we got ahold of the license, we did not have the choice. We were told our story must follow the events of Tron 2.0.

And I never said I was disinterested in more stories of the universe that Tron takes place in. I simply think that we don't need to continue the narrative of the first film. I don't need to know what happened to the characters from the first film. Their story was told. Any further adventures of those specific characters potentially cheapens what transpired in the first film. Once a character hits the "happily ever after mode" do we need to see the further details?

And no, not everything needs to be remade. But we're examining a binary (false) option. Remake versus sequel. As for creative bankruptcy, I could not disagree more. Yes, personally I prefer to see new material. I prefer to see wholly original ideas, but that's not what the market wants. The market wants the same characters, over and over again.

But remake = creative bankruptcy? The Ladykillers? Cape Fear? The Fly? The Thing? 12 Monkeys? Dawn of the Dead? Oceans 11? All wonderful remakes.

Remake does not equal bad. Bad creators equals bad, regardless of original material, remake or sequel.