{"id":14380,"date":"2011-06-08T22:06:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T03:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=14380"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:55:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:55:39","slug":"disney-moves-forward-on-tron-3-by-hiring-screenwriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/08\/disney-moves-forward-on-tron-3-by-hiring-screenwriter\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Moves Forward On TRON 3 By Hiring Screenwriter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>After lots of speculation from cast, crew and fans, Disney is finally moving forward on a sequel to last winter\u2019s TRON: Legacy<\/strong>, itself a sequel to the studio\u2019s groundbreaking 1982 science-fiction adventure TRON<\/strong>. The studio has announced that they have hired screenwriter David DiGilio to begin work on a third installment in the franchise.<\/p>\n

If Disney has seemed to be slow in moving forward on a sequel to last winter\u2019s TRON: Legacy<\/strong>, it is not without good reason. In most cases, the $400 million gross TRON: Legacy<\/strong> pulled at the worldwide box office would be an automatic trigger for development of a sequel. But TRON: Legacy<\/strong> is not most cases. It was a fairly expensive film, budgeted at $170 million, plus it had a massive advertising campaign and years of development costs it needed to recoup as well. This leaves TRON: Legacy<\/strong> a more modest hit than one would normally assume.<\/p>\n

The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, who broke the news of DiGilio\u2019s hiring, has been told that the studio is actually of leery of moving forward too quickly on a theatrical sequel until it sees how well its animated spinoff TRON: Uprising<\/em> performs on their Disney DX cable outlet. The show, which is set between the first and second TRON<\/strong> films for you continuity geeks, will feature the voices of Elijah Wood, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Lance Henriksen and TRON<\/strong> star Bruce Boxleitner and is set to premier next year.<\/p>\n

But who is David DiGilio? Worryingly, the only produced feature on his resume is the dog movie Eight Below<\/strong>. However, he reportedly is a graduate of Disney\u2019s writers program and has just recently sold a science-fiction series pitch to Showtime called Last H.O.P.E.<\/em>, so there is at least reason to be cautiously optimistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After lots of speculation from cast, crew and fans, Disney is finally moving forward on a sequel to last winter\u2019s TRON: Legacy, itself a sequel to the studio\u2019s groundbreaking 1982 science-fiction adventure TRON. The studio [click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[3802,773,3801,1855],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-david-digilio","9":"tag-tron","10":"tag-tron-3","11":"tag-tron-legacy"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14380"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=14380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}