Amph END OF LINE: TRON, Uprising, Legacy & Ares

The difference here, though, is that the robots are the main characters in Transformers. But in the Tron films, it's the humans who are the main characters. The Flynns, Alan, Dillinger, etc. Tron, the titular character, has always been a supporting character, for instance. Only Quorra stands as a special exception. The ultimate consequences in the films (Uprising is a different situation) are always those of the real world, with the effects on the Grid of secondary concern.

 

I think there's an interesting, reverse proportion there in terms of consequences. We spend the most time in the Grid and dealing with its problems, but the importance is placed by the main character on the real world. He did save the Grid, but I don't think he cared about that beyond how it affected his ability to escape back into the real world and get his evidence (which is what the MCP was most worried about in the real world to begin with). Though he did care about Tron, Ram and Yori on a personal level.

And it's the same thing with Sam in Legacy, whose initial plan is to rush the portal and take care of Clu from the outside (in addition to the primary goal of Clu being a real world invasion as well).

 

New game from Bithell announced for all platforms: Tron: Catalyst. 3rd-person isometric action game. Kinda evokes the secondary versions of Evolution.

 

And if you look around you can find 4 seconds from the new D23 trailer floating around. Shows Ares on a light jet ski of sorts.

 

From the upcoming issue of Empire magazine (the one you've been seeing with Andor in the cover):



Their preview article has some quotes from Joachim:

-"With Nine Inch Nails making the music, this installment will be a little grittier, a little bit more industrial. It’s been important for me to contrast The Grid and the real world."
-"This film will probably be more emotional than people are expecting. It’s about the cost of being human."

If that plays out, at least he's going in the right direction, thematically, from where the franchise was going (or, at least, one of them).

 

Interview with Joachim:



Talks about a few things as far as he is able to- including the posisbility that the whole film may be available for full frame IMAX, pending finalized FX budgets.

 

June 17th will see Tron Catalyst hit XB. Hopefully it'll get announced for Switch or Switch 2.

Also: Beck name drop!

Meet Exo, learn about the character's motives and objectives, and check out gameplay in this new TRON: Catalyst trailer for the upcoming story-driven isometric action game from developer Bithell Games in collaboration with Disney Games. This new trailer also gives us a release date, revealing TRON: Catalyst will be available on Xbox Series X/S on June 17, 2025.

In Disney TRON: Catalyst, players are introduced to Exo, a highly resilient and resourceful program with an incredible ability to initiate time loops. With this newfound power, Exo takes on the overlords of a crumbling Grid all while evading Conn, a malevolent agent of CORE. Exo must gain control over her mysterious abilities and uncover the unexplained ‘Glitch’ that threatens the Grid.​

 

And following up on Catalyst's Beck namedrop comes the Tron-themed season for Disney SpeedStorm including Anon (the player character in Evolution) as one of the support crew characters:



Only 4 playable racers (and interestingly Castor is named Zuse here), but they did a good job with their unique abilities. And the sypport cre tokens are refreshingly diverse- including Marv!

 

Tomorrow!

 

Quorra, Sam, Zuse/Castor, and Rinzler.

 

Turn your lights off.



(just tagging for this post so as to not throw out spoilers before people watch- you don't have to tag trailer spoilers after this)

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I love how it shows a Recognizer being tough to take down with a real world military response. This stuff has to be dangerous and resilient to be effective. That derezzing was gruesome too. And that mountain road looks very similar to the roads Sam and Quorra were driving on (which makes sense, since that would be just outside Center City where Encom is and where the Grid-tech is presumably materializing near).

It's mostly a teaser still, without specifics of the plot revealed, but it sells the "grid tech in the real world" premise well.

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