{"id":2202054,"date":"2025-12-17T00:18:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2202054"},"modified":"2025-12-17T00:18:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:18:32","slug":"tron-legacy-director-joseph-kosinski-explains-why-he-doesnt-view-tron-ares-as-a-sequel-to-his-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tron-legacy-director-joseph-kosinski-explains-why-he-doesnt-view-tron-ares-as-a-sequel-to-his-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Tron: Legacy Director Joseph Kosinski Explains Why He Doesn&#8217;t View Tron: Ares As A Sequel To His Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0084827\/\">Tron<\/a> franchise launched in 1982 and finally got a sequel in 2010 when filmmaker <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2676052\/\">Joseph Kosinski<\/a> stepped behind the camera for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1104001\/\">Tron: Legacy<\/a>. Neither movie was a box office hit, but both gained cult followings, and fans spent years hoping for a threequel.<\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time, that was going to be Kosinski&#8217;s Tron: Ascension, a movie that languished in development hell for years until it evolved into <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6604188\/\">Tron: Ares<\/a> with a new lead star in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1386697\/\">Suicide Squad<\/a>&#8216;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001467\/\">Jared Leto<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That had little in common with what the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1745960\/\">Top Gun: Maverick<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt16311594\/\">F1<\/a> director&#8217;s vision for the franchise, and he broke his silence on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6604188\/\">Tron: Ares<\/a> in a recent interview with Empire (via SFFGazette.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tron franchise launched in 1982 and finally got a sequel in 2010 when filmmaker Joseph Kosinski stepped behind the camera for Tron: Legacy. Neither movie was a box office hit, but both gained cult followings, and fans spent years hoping for a threequel. 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