"TRON: Legacy" Joseph Kosinski's directorial debut, with a focus on CG, design, and new technology Part 1 *Note! Contains spoilers.

“Tron” sequel project begins to move forward

Disney has been working on a Tron sequel for over 20 years. However, despite several scripts being written, the project never made it into production, and the project fell into so-called "development Inferno." What changed that trend was the arrival of Joseph Kosinski. He studied mechanical engineering with an emphasis on design at Stanford University and completed a master's degree in architecture at Columbia University. He has a unique background, working as an assistant professor specializing in CG at the same university and also working as a commercial creator.

Disney fell in love with his futuristic commercials and asked him to create a pilot for a two-and-a-half minute sequel to Tron . This video was screened at the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con International and received a great response. Disney thus essentially gave the green light to the project.

Director Kosinski and producer Sean Bailey started the story with the idea that Kevin is lost and trapped in the Tron system of his own creation. Additionally, Eddie Kitsis and Adam Horowitz have joined the script as screenwriters, adding a story about a father and son named Kevin and Sam, as well as the idea of ​​having a "young father" as the antagonist.

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Synopsis ②

In the coliseum, humans are forced to play a dangerous The Game of fighting each other by throwing discs at each other. The loser screams and is broken down into tiny voxels (cubes). In fact, all humans in this world are programs, with disks containing their own information inserted into their backs. And what was forced to fight here were incomplete people and lost programs.

Sam is also considered a lost program and thrown into The Game, but he shows off his outstanding physical ability and wins the tournament. However, when he was fighting a terrifyingly strong warrior named Rinzler, he was injured and bled, and it was revealed that he was not a program, but a "user" (human). Sam is taken to a mysterious person called Crew. Surprisingly, the face hidden behind the mask is his father Kevin (3DCG's Jeff Bridges) at the time of his disappearance. But Crew denies it, saying, ``I'm not your father.''

Sam is once again brought to the Coliseum, where he is forced to team up with other lost programs and play a 5-on-5 The Game. The enemy team's leader was Crewe. The Game that started was ``Light Cycle Battle,'' and Sam murmured, ``I'm confident with this.'' (*4) Sam keeps his team together and maintains a lead, but the crew's clever tactics leave him the only one left alive.

Suddenly, a four-wheeled "Light Runner" bursts into the colosseum and saves Sam's life. Light Runner destroys the outer wall of the grid with a missile and flies out into the wilderness of Outland (an undeveloped region of the Tron system). The person controlling the Light Runner was a mysterious woman named Quorra (Olivia Wilde). Quora takes Sam to his house in the mountains. His real father Kevin (the real Bridges) was there.

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To Sam, who is upset, Kevin tells him a story that spans 20 years in real world time (about 1000 years in grid time). While Kevin was working on creating the ideal world ``Grid,'' a mutant program called ISO (Isomorphic Algorithms) suddenly appears with a rich personality and free will. Kevin marveled at the endless possibilities of ISOs and saw in them "a wonderful future for humanity." He believes that by bringing them into the real world, he will bring about a revolution.

However, the crew considered ISO to be incomplete (a virus). Unable to tolerate imperfection, the crew launches a coup against Kevin. Tron is sacrificed to allow Kevin to escape, and Kevin escapes to a remote part of Outland where the crew can no longer monitor him. Meanwhile, Tron is captured by the crew and has his program rewritten, turning him into the warrior Rinzler.

The crew then carried out a mass massacre of ISOs known as the Purge. Quorra, the last of the ISOs, becomes Kevin's partner and vows to protect him from the crew. However, the portal that is the only passage to the real world closes, and Kevin is trapped in the Tron system.

*4 ``TRON: Legacy'' has a metafictional structure in which Sam, who was 7 years old, was familiar with the 1982 version of `` Tron '' movies and arcade The Game, and his home had posters and Lightcycle toys. . In that respect, it can be said that it preceded `` The Matrix Resurrections '' (21), but it does not have much influence on the content of the movie.