TRON: Legacy/Trivia

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


Flynn: ...You're really... (Beat) You're messing with my Zen thing, man...

  • Defictionalization: If you are one of five lucky people, you can own your very own street-legal Light Cycle.
  • Development Hell: After years in development hell, the first indication that Disney was serious about creating a sequel was the showing of a "VFX Concept Test" teaser at Comic-Con 2008. The teaser showed the updated light-cycles, and revealed Jeff Bridges as Flynn and Clu. The title revealed was "TR2N", but by the time the teaser was released (officially) online several months later, the title had been changed to "TRON: Legacy".
  • Doing It for the Art: Olivia Wilde. She was very committed to her character, to the point that she influenced everything from her appearance to preventing her from being a Shallow Love Interest.
  • Executive Meddling: Daft Punk's score was heavily altered by Hans Zimmer and his company Remote Control Productions after test audiences had trouble following the music. As a result, it sounds less like Daft Punk and more like a ripoff of Zimmer's own Inception and Brad Fiedel's Film/Terminator.
  • Hey, It's That Guy!:
  • Hey, It's That Voice!:
  • Name's the Same: People forget that this Clu is not the same Clu from the first movie, but a separate program with a completely different function who is named after Flynn's hacking program from the first movie.
  • Promoted Fanboy:
    • Michael Sheen was so eager to join Legacy, being a huge fan of the original, that his agents actually had to hide his fandom from Disney so the actor wouldn't get lowballed for it.
    • Similarly, Daft Punk; Word of God states that his initial interview with the duo felt more like the musicians were interviewing him to make sure he was doing right by the TRON name.
  • Recycled Script: A surprising amount of plot elements from Tron 2.0, the discredited sequel, match the movie. Son of the original leads? Check. Running through cyberspace looking for his dad? Check. Drafted to the lightcycle arena deathmatch and rescued by a mysterious female Program? Check. Flynn gone missing in both timelines and no one knows where Tron himself vanished to? Check...