Disney Reportedly Pulls the Plug on TRON 4 After TRON: ARES Crashes at the Box Office, Is Jared Leto to Blame? — GeekTyrant
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After years of development, Tron: Ares finally hit theaters, but its disappointing box office debut may have just ended the digital saga for good. Serving as a standalone follow-up to 2010’s Tron: Legacy , Ares follows a powerful Program, played by Jared Leto , who crosses from the Gr

How come Star Wars gets a fuck ton of shitty sequels but the first TRON film in 15 years is a flop? I was waiting for this film since I was a child.

  • Coldcell@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    There are no writers left that can world build. They’re all momentary hype linked by and-then storytelling.

    • keyez@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      There are plenty of good writers out there working on smaller stuff. The problem has always been they get stifled and overruled in every part of the process in these attempted large blockbusters because the suits ‘know what works’ best apparently.

    • FenrirIII@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I think it’s more of a studio/money problem. There are tons of great, well-written movies no one hears about and lots of other creative media. But Americans have low IQs and terrible taste which can only be satisfied by shitty sequels that play on nostalgia and existing IP.