tronsequel.com

This page has been created in order to communicate with those working on the upcoming Tron sequel. My purpose is to contribute some ideas to the people who are in the process of making the film. I am not delusional, but I have strong feelings about Tron. It isn’t the only thing I have strong feelings for, but for some reason it has stuck with me. I guess I feel like I have invested a lot of time and thought into Tron, and therefore have a vested interest in the outcome of the sequel (and ALL TRON SEQUELS TO COME).

My initial idea was to create a Wiki, so that it could be collaborative, since I’m sure others have better ideas than I do. The wiki just got filled with porno links, and I didn’t really know what to do about that. I know how to use Wordpress, so this what it is for now.

May I please just tell a few stories about my relation to Tron?

When I first saw Tron, it must’ve been recently on video, but anyways, I would rent it every time we went to the video store (not every time, but enough that when the video store closed, my Mom bought it for me). I remember then watching it everyday during Christmas holidays and the like. I’ve probably seen it on the order of hundreds of times.

There was a period of time when Tron and I were distant, and I claimed to have other favorite movies, like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Beverly Hills Cop or some shit like that. Later, when I was in college maybe, I realized that it really was Tron that I was looking for all those years that I was watching foreign films, and all that fancy stuff.

Here is a glimpse of how obsessed I was about Tron when I was a kid: In the first scene where Jeff Bridges’ character shows up, he is communicating with one of his tank programs in the computer world. He is seen typing at a command prompt, after which it cuts to the goings on in the computer world. I had an Apple IIe at the time, and was familiar with such command prompts (though I didn’t really know what to do with them…you can see where this is going). One day, I paused the movie and wrote down everything that Kevin Flynn typed. I can’t tell you exactly what I was hoping would happen if I typed this into my command prompt, but I can say that I did have hope.

Much later, by secret channels I acquired an early draft of Tron 2.0. (Sorry to the person who wrote it, but it stunk.) Up to this point, I hadn’t even considered a Tron sequel, but I’ve been thinking about it on and off since then (in the meantime acquiring some Disney collectors pins that I would wear on my lapel).

Around this time, I finally achieved the closest thing to my childhood ambitions. I found a scanned image of a Topps Tron trading card on the internet. I made sure to get the lighting and the angle of my head right for the photo, and photoshoped my face into Jeff Bridges’ character. I was very proud of myself.

You get the picture.