Rumor: Disney Interactive begins work on new TRON game

by Jason Dobson { Jan 31st 2009 at 11:00AM }

Greetings Program. With a sequel to 80s nerdgasm TRON set to digitize theaters in a couple years, Disney Interactive Studios is already rumored to be working to put an adaptation of the upcoming film on the Game Grid. The news follows reports earlier this week of layoffs and studio shrinkage at Disney's video game arm, though according to Variety this hasn't stopped the company from talking to potential game developers about the project.

Master Control has not yet revealed what the rumored game will be like. Perhaps it will be a shooter like Monolith's TRON 2.0, or simply let us dress up a grizzled Jeff Bridges in a variety of rotoscoped outfits. End of line.

Tags: disney, disney-interactive, rumor, sequel, tr2n, tron, tron-2, tron2

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

LordChimp @ Jan 31st 2009 11:04AM

I thought you guys would use the picture of the fat guy in the tron suit.

Henry @ Jan 31st 2009 11:11AM

Too predictable!

Foetoid @ Jan 31st 2009 11:12AM

Its 2am where i live and i don't need that image in my head as im about to go to bed. Thankfully i've never seen the pic you are referring too. I'll just imagine this guy squeezing into a Tron suit:

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/01/16/npd-retail-sales-of-pc-games-fell-14-in-2008/

Dirty @ Jan 31st 2009 11:16AM

So Much worse Foetoid.

Foetoid @ Jan 31st 2009 11:21AM

Someone has to photoshop a Tron suit onto that guy!

I was just reading through the comments on that article, in page 2 with the 'Wild Snorlax Appeared' comment. I will have to say thats the funniest comment-streak ever, thank you Mr Esc!

Haggard @ Jan 31st 2009 7:03PM

Oh man, I remember that thread. Everyone got nightmares from the pic/alternate universe Justin.

Look at all the 3 hearts!

colin @ Feb 1st 2009 10:16PM

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/headshot.jpg

had to

capt_carl @ Jan 31st 2009 11:34AM

Wait. Sequel to TRON!? How did I never hear about this?

Hashbrown Hunter @ Jan 31st 2009 1:58PM

They announced it at Comic-Con (I think) and there's a teaser floating around online with Jeff Bridges. Check it out. It's really badass.

(01) @ Feb 1st 2009 11:49AM

I think there's a general lack of news about the project besides the fact that it exists and Jeff Bridges is attached.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1104001/
I felt the same way when I heard about it for the first time.

A tron game has the potential to be life-alteringly awesome or just terrible. Lets hope they don't fuck it up.

playwhutyalike @ Jan 31st 2009 11:40AM

I thought nerdgasms were a direct result of jacking it to anime porn.

Maverick Saturn @ Jan 31st 2009 11:41AM

No, thats Hentaigasm

playwhutyalike @ Jan 31st 2009 11:49AM

NERD ALERT!!!!!!!!

Hashbrown Hunter @ Jan 31st 2009 1:58PM

*splurt*

Blank-Mage @ Jan 31st 2009 2:15PM

I once saw a Jesus Cosplayer in a line chanting "Yoai, yuri, hentai!". I love cons.

Sir Buzz Killington( The Artist formerly known as Jakka) @ Jan 31st 2009 3:19PM

What if you're jacking off to Samus on Master Chief furry-porn drawn hentai style?...a friend of mine wants to know.

Haggard @ Jan 31st 2009 7:06PM

Ask your friend where a person of such interests could find that particular content.

..it's a friend of mine who wants to know, s'all.

Maverick Saturn @ Jan 31st 2009 11:42AM

Well, lets see what Disney is capable of :)

Dirty @ Jan 31st 2009 12:08PM

http://newsbusters.org/static/2007/05/2007-05-07-mickey.jpg

Hashbrown Hunter @ Jan 31st 2009 2:05PM

@ Dirty:
I think he's capable of much worse.

KAIKAI @ Jan 31st 2009 4:36PM

doesnt disney own the company that made the recent turok game ?
and didnt they also make PURE ?

nighttime__ @ Jan 31st 2009 11:43AM

if it's anything like Tron: KILLER APP on Xbox.

I will bareback minnie mouse.

Dirty @ Jan 31st 2009 12:09PM

No white glove, no love.

CH3BURASHKA @ Jan 31st 2009 12:01PM

Have NOT seen the movie yet (will do soon), but I believe that now is the time for GOOD game classics. As long as they don't screw it up (though there's a 90% chance they will).

Hashbrown Hunter @ Jan 31st 2009 2:06PM

BUT Ghostbusters looks awesome. So there's still hope for nerdy 80s flicks!

Joe Alanis @ Jan 31st 2009 12:27PM

I say 89.838766885992233 % Would be more accurate.

CubeGuy @ Jan 31st 2009 12:54PM

Bah. Just have Square Enix throw Tron into Kingdom Hearts 3 again. Everyone wins.

F1 @ Jan 31st 2009 1:16PM

Am I alone when I say TRON 2.0 was amazing?

James Pennington @ Jan 31st 2009 2:11PM

Yes. Tron 2.0 was fantastic! Great shooter with actual role-playing elements where you could develop your character's abilities and customize weapons. I actually still play it every now and then and even have the action figures from the game (http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/usacomicbooks_2039_59931516).

I hope the new game uses ideas and game mechanics from 2.0. That game truly felt like the sequel to the movie.

Nicholas Sulikowski @ Jan 31st 2009 6:30PM

The only reason I'm not still playing TRON 2.0 is because my PC is crappy. But I loved that, and considered it the canon continuation of TRON, which I think it was at the time. I even bought the followup 6 issue comic book. I loved most of all how they depicted the digital world 20 years later. Familiar, but obviously updated. My personal favorite was the overwhelmingly neon Internet City, which an almost Coruscant flair to it.