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Tron's box office failure reveals a bigger problem of Disney's own making — The series has symbolized Disney's inability to figure out what works in live-action across the ages Box Office (www.polygon.com)
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Disney has tried translate its animated magic to a lot of live-action fantasies over the years. The Tron movies are emblematic of their failures.

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[–] 31 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Disney needs to stop trying to re-write popular IPs. It's one thing to build on legacy material...but they never seem to be able to do that. They have this obsession with burning shit to the ground, and building some cheap knock-off version on top of it. Fans don't typically like that.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Tron is the opposite of a popular IP. None of the 3 Tron movies have been a hit.

    Tron is barely a character in his own sequel. I hear he’s not even the newest one. Tron just means electronic music saturated colors.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Just because something didn't do well in theaters, doesn't mean it isn't popular. The 1st two movies and the animated series tying them together, have a massive cult following.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Is it a massive cult following? I think there’s just a loud but relatively small community online that has never translated to making any Tron film successful.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well when you play fast and loose with the definition of "successful" you can make this same argument about any film. In this instance you're choosing to narrowly define success as "box office revenue," but we all know plenty of films that flopped in theaters and blew up big after the fact. This film flopping in 2025 can easily be attributed to the terrible lead they chose who has ruined film after film in recent memory, but that has no bearing on how people feel about the franchise as a whole.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Successfully for a movie usually means financial success in addition to critical and audience reviews. None of the Tron movies are successful. All of them have flopped financially.

    The only reason the two sequels exist is because Disney is creatively bankrupt. Their trash live-action remakes of all their animated movies have more audience than the Tron sequels.

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