How come Star Wars gets a fuck ton of shitty sequels but the first TRON film in 15 years is a flop? I was waiting for this film since I was a child.

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The original Tron apparently actually made decent money (which is weird because everyone just assumed it bombed?)

Legacy made $410m on a $170m budget.

The problem is legitimately Disney and Leto...

And also Legacy was in 2010 so what exactly is happening here? You can't turn this into some kind of decades-long franchise with a doofus like Leto as the star, it's a "well the last one was kind of fun" movie you can't have a sex pest cultist as your face while trying to rake in casual nostalgia cash.

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  • The original Tron was made on a $17 million budget and made $50 million at the box office in 1982. In 1980, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back was made on a budget of $30 million and earned $550 million.

    In 2010, Disney wanted their own Star Wars, so they tried making another Tron flick. Maybe they could make it stick. It made $410 million on a $170 million budget. Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith had a $113 million budget and made $903 million.

    Disney has since bought and run Star Wars into the ground. Meanwhile Tron: Ares has been in production hell since 2017. And for the first time, a Tron movie is an outright failure.

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