{"id":64,"date":"2007-09-11T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=64"},"modified":"2018-12-09T01:10:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T06:10:52","slug":"tron-2-boots-up-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2007\/09\/11\/tron-2-boots-up-again\/","title":{"rendered":"TRON 2 Boots Up Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of last week&#8217;s announcement that Steve Lisberger &#8211; the director of the 1982 ground breaking film <strong>TRON<\/strong> &#8211; was going to be returning to the director&#8217;s chair for the first time in nearly 20 years, the <em>Hollywood Reporter<\/em> is saying that Lisberger&#8217;s on-again\/off-again sequel to the cult classic appears now to be on again.<\/p>\n<p>Commercial director Joseph Kosinski is reportedly in final negotiations with the Disney to develop and direct the as yet untitled <strong>TRON<\/strong> sequel. Kosinski will work with screenwriters Eddie Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, who have contributed to the television series <em>Lost<\/em>, on developing the sequel&#8217;s storyline. In the original film, a computer programmer (Jeff Bridges) finds himself sucked into a virtual cyberspace world and forced to fight for his life in a series of deadly video games.<\/p>\n<p>In much the same way that Lisberger shot a test reel of one of the original TRON&#8217;s action sequences to show Disney executives what the film would look like, Kosinski is reportedly designing a sequence involving the original film\u2019s &#8220;light cycles&#8221; as a way of demonstrating what his vision for the film will be.<\/p>\n<p>Kosinski has already been announced last month as the most recent director tied to Warner Brothers&#8217; ongoing attempt to remake the 1976 science-fiction cult classic <strong>Logan&#8217;s Run<\/strong>. The <strong>TRON<\/strong> sequel would go into production after Kosinski finishes up work on <strong>Logan&#8217;s Run<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Hot on the heels of last week&#8217;s announcement that Steve Lisberger &#8211; the director of the 1982 ground breaking film TRON &#8211; was going to be returning to the director&#8217;s chair for the first time <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2007\/09\/11\/tron-2-boots-up-again\/\" title=\"TRON 2 Boots Up Again\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[12,751,22,776,24,775,773],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-cult-film","8":"tag-disney","9":"tag-in-development","10":"tag-joseph-kosinski","11":"tag-sequel","12":"tag-steven-lisberger","13":"tag-tron"},"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\/64","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=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}