Tron
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Directed by	Steven Lisberger
Produced by	Donald Kushner
Written by	Steven Lisberger & Bonnie MacBird (story) Steven Lisberger (screenplay)
Starring	Jeff Bridges Bruce Boxleitner David Warner Cindy Morgan Barnard Hughes
Music by	Wendy Carlos (score) Journey (songs)
Cinematography	Bruce Logan
Editing by	Jeff Gourson
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures
Release date(s)	July 9, 1982 (USA)
Running time	96 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$17,000,000 (estimated)
Gross revenue	$33,000,000 (USA)
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Tron is a 1982 science fiction film starring Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn (and his counterpart inside the electronic world, Clu), Bruce Boxleitner as Alan Bradley (and Tron), Cindy Morgan as Lora Baines (and Yori) and Dan Shor as Ram. David Warner plays the villain, Ed Dillinger (and Sark), as well as providing the voice of the 'Master Control Program'. It was directed by Steven Lisberger. Being one of the first films from a major studio to use computer graphics extensively, Tron has a distinctive visual style. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (796x1072, 560 KB) This image is of a movie poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the movie or the studio which produced the movie in question. ... Steven Lisberger (born April 24, 1951 in New York, New York) is most well known for directing the movie Tron. ... Donald Kushner is an American film producer. ... Bonnie MacBird is an actress, playwright, scriptwriter, and television producer. ... Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ... Bruce Boxleitner (born May 12, 1950 in Elgin, Illinois) is an American actor. ... David Warner David Warner (born July 29, 1941 in Manchester, England) is an English actor who often plays sinister or evil characters. ... Cindy Morgan (born September 29, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress best known for her appearances as Lora/Yori in Tron and Lacey Underpants in Caddyshack. ... Barnard Hughes (July 16, 1915 – July 11, 2006), born Bernard Aloysius Kiernan Hughes[1], was an American character actor of theater and film. ... Wendy Carlos (November 14, 1939 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island) is an American composer and electronic musician. ... Journey is an American rock band formed in 1973 in San Francisco, California. ... Jeff Gourson is a film editor and producer. ... The Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group is a collection of affiliated motion picture studios, all subsidaries of The Walt Disney Company. ... is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ... Tron, played by Bruce Boxleitner, is the titular character of the Disney movie Tron. ... Bruce Boxleitner (born May 12, 1950 in Elgin, Illinois) is an American actor. ... Tron, played by Bruce Boxleitner, is the titular character of the Disney movie Tron. ... Cindy Morgan (born September 29, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress best known for her appearances as Lora/Yori in Tron and Lacey Underpants in Caddyshack. ... Tron, played by Bruce Boxleitner, is the titular character of the Disney movie Tron. ... Dan Shor promotional photo Daniel Shor is a veteran actor, director, writer and teacher with a career spanning 28 years. ... Tron, played by Bruce Boxleitner, is the titular character of the Disney movie Tron. ... David Warner David Warner (born July 29, 1941 in Manchester, England) is an English actor who often plays sinister or evil characters. ... Sark is an evil computer program who is one of the main characters in the film Tron. ... The Master Control Program (MCP), voiced by David Warner, is the main villain of the Disney movie Tron. ... Steven Lisberger (born April 24, 1951 in New York, New York) is most well known for directing the movie Tron. ... For the journal by ACM SIGGRAPH, see Computer Graphics (Publication). ...

Tagline: A world inside the computer where man has never been. Never before now.

Plot summary

Kevin Flynn is a young and gifted programmer who once worked for the software mega-corporation ENCOM. Flynn created several video games on the ENCOM mainframe while working after hours with the aim of eventually creating his own games company. Before he is ready to present his projects to senior management, his work is stolen by another programmer, Ed Dillinger. Dillinger locks Flynn out of the system and goes on to present the games as his own work, thus earning himself a series of promotions. A programmer or software developer is someone who programs computers, that is, one who writes computer software. ... ENCOM is the name of a software production company from the movie Tron. ...

Three years later, Dillinger is now a senior executive of ENCOM, and the company is run mainly by the Master Control Program (MCP), an artificial intelligence that started as Dillinger's chess program. Flynn, after being fired by Dillinger, has been reduced to running his own video game arcade, which ironically features several of the games he created. As a result, he attempts to break into the ENCOM mainframe and find the evidence he needs to prove Dillinger's wrongdoing. The MCP catches one of Flynn's computer programs, Clu, poking around in sensitive memory and "de-resolutes" (erases) the program. The MCP then summons Dillinger to discuss the matter, and Dillinger authorizes it to shut down access to all personnel in Flynn's former security group (Group-7 access). In the process, it inadvertently locks out a current ENCOM employee, Alan Bradley. The Master Control Program (MCP), voiced by David Warner, is the main villain of the Disney movie Tron. ... Garry Kasparov playing against Deep Blue, the first machine to win a chess game against a reigning world champion. ... arcade, see Arcade. ... A computer program is a collection of instructions that describe a task, or set of tasks, to be carried out by a computer. ...

Alan goes to speak with Dillinger, and in the process reveals that he is working on a security program named Tron, which would be used to monitor communications between ENCOM and outside systems. When asked, he states that it would not be a part of the MCP, but rather that it would serve as a watchdog for the MCP as well. Dillinger dismisses him quickly, only to be confronted by the MCP about Alan's project. The MCP informs Dillinger that it plans to take over the Pentagon's computer systems, having calculated that it can run things "900 to 1200 times better than any human." When Dillinger attempts to reassert his control over the MCP, it essentially blackmails him into keeping quiet and complying with its wishes. Tron, played by Bruce Boxleitner, is the titular character of the Disney movie Tron. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Meanwhile, Alan goes to speak with his girlfriend, Lora, an ENCOM laser lab technician and Flynn's ex-girlfriend. In the lab, Lora and her coworker Walter(who started ENCOM in his garage) have just successfully digitized an orange using a powerful laser (causing it to disappear and reappear intact). Alan and Lora later set off to Flynn's arcade/apartment to warn him that Dillinger knows about his hacking. After being convinced that Flynn is looking for evidence that he was cheated by Dillinger, Alan and Lora sneak him into the laser lab, where he works on forging an access code for a different security group. This would allow him to find the information he is looking for, and would also allow Alan to finish his work and get Tron online. Digitizing, or digitization, is the process of turning an analog signal into a digital representation of that signal. ...

Flynn settles down at Lora's lab terminal, where her laser points directly at the terminal. As Flynn tries to gain access to the system, he confronts the MCP. While he "chats" with the MCP, it takes control of the laser and suddenly digitizes Flynn into the world inside the computer, where programs are physical characters that resemble their creators.

Flynn materializes in the digital world and is taken to a holding pit. There, a financial program, Ram, tells Flynn that he is a "guest" of the Master Control Program, and that he is going to be made to play games. Flynn, who is convinced that he is dreaming, seems excited about this at first, saying "I play games better than anybody."

Flynn and a number of other Programs are soon taken to meet Sark (Dillinger's counterpart in the digital world). Sark tells each of the Programs that either they can join the MCP willingly, or they will be forced to compete in gladiator-style games that will result in their eventual elimination. Each Program receives an identity disc that stores their actions and experiences, and also doubles as a powerful weapon. On their way back to the holding pen, Flynn sees Tron fighting a number of other Programs, and Ram tells him that Tron fights for the Users. For other uses, see Gladiator (disambiguation). ...

Before he can return to the holding pit, Flynn is taken to his first game. The game is essentially a vertical version of Jai Alai, except that the players stand on platforms made up of concentric rings that disappear when the ball hits them, forcing them to jump over the gaps. Flynn is forced to face Crom, "one of his own kind" according to Sark. After several volleys, Crom falls off his platform and struggles to climb back up. When Flynn refuses to finish off his opponent, Sark terminates the game and sends Crom plummeting to his death. However, he spares Flynn, recalling the MCP's admonition: "I want him in the games until he dies playing." Now defunct Milford Jai-Alai Fronton in Milford, Connecticut. ...

Flynn returns to a holding area where Ram and Tron are waiting for him. Flynn immediately mistakes Tron for Alan, and Tron reveals that Alan is his User. Feigning disorientation, Flynn says that he's starting to remember "all kinds of stuff", including that his "User" wants him to take out the MCP. Tron states that that is his goal as well, but before they can talk much more, the three are taken to the Light Cycle arena. In here, the three must attempt to guide their opponents into their trails. They team up and manage to force one of their enemies into the side of the arena, opening a large crack in the wall through which they escape. Sark quickly launches his security forces (which consist of Flynn's Tank and Recognizer programs) to seek them out. Categories: Stub ...

The three locate an I/O tower that Tron needs to access in order to communicate with Alan, but on the way, Flynn's and Ram's Light Cycles are destroyed by a Tank and Tron is separated from the group. Flynn takes the injured Ram to a pile of junk, which turns out to be a damaged Recognizer. He "accidentally" activates it and starts for the I/O tower, but on the way, Ram begins to die. Ram asks Flynn if he is a User, and then he asks Flynn to help Tron just before he dies and de-rezzes.

Meanwhile, Tron breaks into a simulation chamber where a Solar Sailer is being constructed. There, he finds Yori, a program written by Lora. After Tron breaks Yori out of her reporting routine, the two programs make their way to the I/O tower and confront Dumont(Walter's computer counterpart), the keeper of the tower. He grants Tron access to the port, and Tron receives the critical instructions he needs from Alan in order to destroy the Master Control Program. They then make their way back to the Solar Sailer, narrowly escaping Sark's forces, and set off for the MCP. Along the way, Flynn rejoins them, having accidentally disguised himself as one of Sark's troops. He explains to Tron and Yori at this point that he is actually a User.

The Solar Sailer moves through the world of Tron in this concept painting.
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Sark eventually captures Flynn and Yori, ramming the Solar Sailer with his ship. Sark then disembarks and begins de-rezzing the ship. Although Yori and the ship begin to fade away around him, Flynn manages to keep her alive and the ship intact. Yori believes Tron to be dead, but in reality, Tron has escaped on Sark's shuttle, which lands nearby the MCP's core. Here, a number of captured programs, including Dumont, are locked against a wall to face the MCP, which appears as a giant red face on a huge spinning cylinder. The MCP senses Tron's presence and sends Sark out to battle him, and then the MCP begins to tell the Programs of their impending fate: "You will each become a part of me, and together, we will be complete." Image File history File links Inside_tron. ... Image File history File links Inside_tron. ...

Sark and Tron battle on the mesa, until Tron gains the upper hand, severely damaging Sark and destroying his disc. The MCP then transfers his functions to Sark, causing him to grow many times Tron's size. Tron begins to attack the MCP directly, attempting to break through the shield protecting its core. As the battle continues, Yori guides the remains of Sark's ship toward the core, where Flynn jumps inside. This distracts the MCP long enough for Tron to throw his disc through a gap in the shield, destroying the MCP.

The digital world comes alive after the MCP's defeat. I/O towers light up all over the landscape, and the Programs rejoice in the fact that their world has become a free system. They ponder Flynn's fate, but Flynn is sent back to the real world, the laser re-materializing him at the terminal. A nearby printer then begins printing the evidence that Flynn's programs were "annexed" by Dillinger.

Dillinger arrives at the office the next morning to discover a message on his computer's screen showing the evidence of his wrongdoing, and it can be implied that the evidence has been sent to every computer at ENCOM, and sometime that day Dillinger will be either fired or arrested. The movie closes with a brief scene where Alan and Lora greet Flynn at the helicopter pad on top of the ENCOM building. Flynn is now the chief executive of the company.

Cast

Note: Many of the actors played people in the real world and the programs they have written which appear in physical form in the digital world; for example, Bruce Boxleitner plays programmer Alan Bradley and his program Tron. A programmer or software developer is someone who programs computers, that is, one who writes computer software. ... A computer program is a collection of instructions that describe a task, or set of tasks, to be carried out by a computer. ...

• Jeff Bridges ... Kevin Flynn/Clu
• Bruce Boxleitner ... Alan Bradley/Tron
• David Warner ... Ed Dillinger/Sark
• Cindy Morgan ... Lora/Yori
• Barnard Hughes ... Dr. Walter Gibbs/Dumont
• Dan Shor ... Ram
• Peter Jurasik ... Crom
• Tony Stephano ... Peter/Sark's Lieutenant
• Craig Chudy, Vince Deadrick ... Warriors
• Sam Schatz ... Expert Disc Warrior
• Jackson Bostwick ... Head Guard
• Dave Cass ... Factory guard
• Gerald Berns, Bob Neill, Ted White, Mark Stewart, Michael Sax, Tony Brubaker ... Guards
• Charles Picerni ... Tank Commander
• Pierre Vuilleumier, Erik Cord ... Tank gunners
• Loyd Catlett, Michael J. Dudikoff, III ... Conscripts
• Richard Bruce Friedman ... Video game player
• Loyd Catlett ... Video game cowboy
• Rick Feck, John Kenworthy ... Boys in video game arcade
• David Warner* ... Voice of Master Control Program

* Not credited on-screen. Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ... Bruce Boxleitner (born May 12, 1950 in Elgin, Illinois) is an American actor. ... David Warner David Warner (born July 29, 1941 in Manchester, England) is an English actor who often plays sinister or evil characters. ... Cindy Morgan (born September 29, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress best known for her appearances as Lora/Yori in Tron and Lacey Underpants in Caddyshack. ... Barnard Hughes (July 16, 1915 – July 11, 2006), born Bernard Aloysius Kiernan Hughes[1], was an American character actor of theater and film. ... Dan Shor promotional photo Daniel Shor is a veteran actor, director, writer and teacher with a career spanning 28 years. ... Peter Jurasik in Stuttgart, Germany in 2000 Peter Jurasik (born 25 April 1950, Queens, New York) is an American actor best known for his television roles as as Londo Mollari in the 1990s science fiction series Babylon 5, and Sid the Snitch on the 1980s series Hill Street Blues. ... Jackson Bostwick is an actor best known for playing Captain Marvel in the first season of the Shazam! TV series of the mid-1970s. ... Robert James MacGillivray Neill (born 24th June 1952) is a Conservative Party politician. ... Ted White is a tall, massive American stunt man/actor who doubled for John Wayne, Fess Parker, Clark Gable, Lee Marvin and Richard Boone, among others. ... Mark A. Stewart (born 1951) is an American realist watercolor painter in the tradition of Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth and Edward Hopper. ... David Warner David Warner (born July 29, 1941 in Manchester, England) is an English actor who often plays sinister or evil characters. ...

Production

The inspiration for Tron occurred when Steve Lisberger saw video games for the first time.^[1] He was immediately fascinated by them and wanted to do a film incorporating them. According to Lisberger, "I realized that there were these techniques that would be very suitable for bringing video games and computer visuals to the screen. And that was the moment that the whole concept flashed across my mind."^[1] He was frustrated by the clique-ish nature of computers and video games and wanted to create a film that would open this world up to everyone.^[1] Lisberger and his business partner Donald Kushner moved to the West Coast in 1977 and set up an animation studio to develop Tron.^[1]

Originally, the film was conceived to be predominantly an animated film with live-action sequences acting as book ends.^[1] The rest would involve a combination of computer generated visuals and back-lit animation.^[1] Lisberger planned to finance the movie independently by approaching several computer companies but had little success.^[1] However, one company, Information International Inc., was receptive. He met with Richard Taylor, a representative, and they began talking about using live-action photography with back-lit animation in such a way that it could be integrated with computer graphics. At this point, Lisberger already had a script written and the film entirely storyboarded with some computer animation tests completed.^[1] He had spent approximately $300,000 developing Tron and had also secured $4-5 million in private backing before reaching a standstill. Lisberger and Kushner decided to take the idea to Disney who were interested in producing more daring productions at the time.^[1] However, they were uncertain about giving $10-12 million to a first-time producer and director using techniques that, in most cases, had never been attempted.^[1]

The studio agreed to finance a test reel which involved a frisbee champion throwing a rough prototype of the discs used in the film.^[1] It was a chance to mix live-action footage with black-lit animation and computer generated visuals. It impressed the executives at Disney and they agreed to back the film.^[1] The script was subsequently re-written and re-storyboarded with the studio's input. A Wham-O Professional Frisbee For the amusement ride, see Frisbee (ride). ...

Three designers were brought in to create the look of the computer world. Renowned French comic book artist Jean Giraud (aka Moebius) was the main set and costume designer for the movie. Most of the vehicle designs (including Sark's aircraft carrier, the light cycles, the tank and the solar sailer) were created by industrial designer Syd Mead, of Blade Runner fame. Peter Lloyd, a high-tech commercial artist, designed the environments. However, these jobs often overlapped with Giraud working on the solar sailer and Mead designing terrain, sets and the film's logo.^[1] The original Program character design was inspired by the main Lisberger Studios logo, a glowing body builder hurling two discs. Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (born May 8, 1938) is a French comics artist. ... Syd Mead (born July 18, 1933 in St. ... Blade Runner is a 1982 cyberpunk, neo-noir American film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. ... Peter Lloyd is a freelance illustrator who has produced artwork for famous music bands and worked on movies such as Tron, sometimes producing everything from storyboarding and layouts to concept art. ...

To create the computer animation sequences of Tron, Disney turned to the four leading computer graphics firms of the day: Information International Inc. of Culver City, CA, who owned the Super Foonly F-1 (the fastest PDP-10 ever made and the only one of its kind); MAGI of Elmsford, NY; Robert Abel and Associates of California; and Digital Effects of New York City. Bill Kovacs worked on this movie while working for Robert Abel before going on to found Wavefront Technologies. Tron was one of the first movies to make extensive use of any form of computer animation, and is celebrated as a milestone in the computer animation industry. Information International, Inc. ... Foonly was the PDP-10 successor that was to have been built by the Super Foonly project at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory along with a new operating system. ... The PDP-10 was a computer manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from the late 1960s on; the name stands for Programmed Data Processor model 10. It was the machine that made time-sharing common; it looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the 1970s by many... Mathematics Application Group, Inc. ... Robert Abels company, Robert Abel and Associates, was a pioneering production company specializing in TV commercials made with computer graphics. ... Digital Effects Inc. ... Bill Kovacs (25 October 1949 – 30 May 2006) was a pioneer of commercial computer animation technology. ... Wavefront was a computer graphics company started by Bill Kovacs and Roy Hall, and developed the Wavefront Advanced Visualizer computer graphics system. ... Computer animation is the art of creating moving images via the use of computers. ...

However, the film contains less computer-generated imagery than is generally supposed: Only fifteen to twenty minutes of actual animation were used.^[2] Because the technology to combine computer animation and live action did not exist at the time, these sequences were intercut with the filmed characters.

Most of the scenes, backgrounds and visual effects in the film were created using more traditional techniques and a unique process known as "backlit animation". In this process, live-action scenes inside the computer world were filmed in black-and-white on an entirely black set, printed on large-format high-contrast film, then colorized with photographic and rotoscopic techniques to give them a "technological" feel. With multiple layers of high-contrast, large-format positives and negatives, this process required truckloads of sheet film and a workload even greater than that of a conventional cel-animated feature. In addition, the varying quality and age of the film layers caused differing brightness levels for the backlit effects from frame to frame, explaining why glowing outlines and circuit traces tended to flicker in the original film. Due to its difficulty and cost, this process would never be repeated for another feature film. Black-and-white or black and white) can refer to a general term used in photography, film, and other media (see black-and-white). ... Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over live-action film movement, frame by frame, for use in animated films. ...

This film features parts of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — the multi-story ENCOM laser bay was the target area for the SHIVA solid state multi-beamed laser. Also, the stairway that Alan, Lora, and Flynn use to get to Alan's office is the stairway in Building 451 near the entrance to the main machine room. The cubicle scenes were shot in another room of the lab. Tron is the only movie to have scenes filmed inside this lab. Aerial view of the lab and surrounding area. ...

The original script called for "good" programs to be colored yellow and "evil" programs (those loyal to Sark and the MCP) to be colored blue. Partway into production, this coloring scheme was changed to blue for good and red for evil, but some scenes were produced using the original coloring scheme: Clu, who drives a tank, has yellow circuit lines, and all of Sark's tank commanders are blue (but appear green in some presentations). Also, the light-cycle sequence shows the heroes driving yellow, orange and red cycles, while Sark's troops drive blue cycles.

The background music for Tron was written by pioneer electronic musician Wendy Carlos, who is best-known for her album Switched-On Bach and for the soundtracks to many films, including A Clockwork Orange and The Shining. The music featured a mix of an analog Moog synthesizer and GDS digital synthesizer (complex additive and phase modulation synthesis), along with non-electronic pieces performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra (hired at the insistence of Disney, which was concerned that Carlos might not be able to complete her score on time). Two additional musical tracks were provided by the band Journey. They were originally going to be recorded by British band Supertramp. The soundtrack album was released on record and tape by CBS Records. It has been recently re-released by Walt Disney Records. Wendy Carlos (November 14, 1939 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island) is an American composer and electronic musician. ... Switched-On Bach is a musical album by Wendy Carlos (then Walter Carlos) on CBS Records, released in 1968. ... This article is about the film. ... The Shining is a 1980 British horror film by Stanley Kubrick based on Stephen Kings novel of the same name. ... The term Moog(pronounced // as in moan) synthesizer can refer to any number of analog synthesizers designed by Dr. Robert Moog or manufactured by Moog Music, and is commonly used as a generic term for analog and digital music synthesisers. ... 194. ... Frequency modulation synthesis (or FM synthesis) is a form of audio synthesis where the timbre of a simple waveform is changed by frequency modulating it with a modulating frequency that is also in the audio range, resulting in a more complex waveform and a different-sounding tone. ... The term synthesiser is also used to mean frequency synthesiser, an electronic system found in communications. ... The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO), based in London, is one of the major orchestras of the United Kingdom. ... Journey is an American rock band formed in 1973 in San Francisco, California. ... Supertramp is a British progressive rock band that had a series of top-selling albums in the 1970s and 1980s. ... A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music from a particular feature film. ... It has been suggested that Childrens gramophone records be merged into this article or section. ... The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. ... Columbia Records is the oldest brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888, and was the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders. ... Walt Disney Records is a record company and part of The Walt Disney Company. ...

Budgeting the production was difficult because they were constantly breaking new ground as they progressed with additional challenges like an impending Directors Guild of America strike and a fixed release date.^[1] Director Guild of America building on Sunset Boulevard. ...

Legacy

The light-cycle race

• On January 13, 2005, Walt Disney Pictures announced a new Tron movie (possibly a remake), with more emphasis on the Internet. This project was also hinted at previously in the new documentary that was filmed for the 20th-anniversary DVD, which was released in January 2002. However, it seems unlikely that this movie will ever materialize.^{[citation needed]}
• Disneyland featured the Tron SuperSpeed Tunnel in its PeopleMover attraction from 1982 until its closure in 1995. During this time, the attraction was officially titled PeopleMover Thru The World of Tron.
• Tron inspired the music videos for the songs "Everyday Formula" by the band Regurgitator (which recreated the Jai-Alai sequence), "12:51" by The Strokes, A1's video for their remake of "Take on Me" (originally by A-ha) and "From Paris to Berlin" by Infernal, which uses vehicles from the light cycle race. Shania Twain's video for "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!" seems to be Tron influenced.
• In 2006, Adidas released a limited-edition line of track jacket and sneakers of various designs featuring obscure popular culture of years past. One of the jackets features Tron. The line features a stripe of the playing field in the computer, the Tron logo, and light-cycle racers on the back.
• Some of the terminology used in Tron was taken from similar terms used by the Burroughs Computer company (since merged with Sperry Univac to form Unisys):
  • "De-Rezzed" refers to "DS", a mainframe console command to "Discontinue" or "Kill" a running program.
  • "MCP" (Master Control Program) was the name given to the operating systems for the Burroughs large systems, medium systems, and small systems respectively.
• Canadian singer, Pierre Lapointe, used Tron's universe in his last video "Qu'en est il de la chance" .

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Comic Book

In 2003, 88 MPH solicited a mini-series titled: Tron 2.0: Derezzed. This comic was cancelled before any issues were released. This article is about the first film in the Back to the Future trilogy. ...

In 2005, Slave Labor Graphics announced its comic, Tron: The Ghost in the Machine. The first issue was released in April of 2006, the second issue in November of the same year. The comic book is set 6 months after the events of Tron 2.0, when the video game programmer, Jet Bradley, returns to the computer world against his will. The comic book is written by Landry Walker and Eric Jones, with art in the first two issues by Louie De Martinis. The artist on the third issue is Mike Shoykhet. Slave Labor Graphics logo Slave Labor Graphics or commonly SLG, is an independent American comic book publisher, which is well-known for publishing darkly humorous, offbeat comics such as Jhonen Vasquezs Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and Squee!, or Roman Dirges Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl, and The... Tron 2. ... A game programmer is a software engineer who primarily develops computer or video games or related software (such as game development tools). ...

The comic from Slave Labor Graphics opens with a detailed history of the Tron universe, providing this previously unseen background on the events that allowed Ed Dillinger and the MCP to rise to power:

In the early 1970s a small engineering company called ENCOM introduced a revolutionary type of software designed to direct and streamline the transfer of data between networked machines. Ed Dillinger, the lead programmer on this project, realized the enormous potential of his teams creation and secretly encoded a secondary function to be activated upon installation: to copy the sub-routines of other programs and absorb their functions. This alteration allowed Dillinger to appropriate research and claim it as his own, and he rose quickly through ENCOM’s corporate ranks. This was the beginning of the Master Control Program.

The comic picks up after the events in Tron 2.0, where Jet Bradley has emerged from the digital universe emotionally scarred and distrustful of technology.^[3]

Direct Parodies

• The banned Pokémon episode "Dennō Senshi Porygon" extensively spoofed Tron's visual style.
• The lightcycle scene in Tron was parodied in the Family Guy episode "One If By Clam, Two If By Sea".
• In the South Park episodes "Jewbilee" and "Super Best Friends", Moses is depicted as the MCP.
• Tron was mentioned in The Simpsons in Treehouse of Horror VI, where Homer is taken into a 3D world. In a bid to explain where he was, he asked if anybody present in the room had ever heard of the film, only to receive a negative response from everyone (several from Chief Wiggum).
• Tron is also heavily parodied in an episode of Dexter's Laboratory (specifically, the episode "Game Over"), where the MCP is replaced by a game cartridge called Master Computer.
• Part of the VeggieTales video LarryBoy and the Bad Apple parodies the Light Cycle sequence.
• In an episode of the television series Robot Chicken, a young teenager buys a cheap used car, but is instead given a blue rod that turns into a Light Cycle.
• A Daily Show segment on e-voting used the light cycle race to illustrate the "little people" who their e-voting "expert" believed lived inside computers and whose heroism and strength of character could be relied upon to relay an honest vote count to the central server.
• Automan was a U.S., science fiction, superhero, television series produced by Glen A. Larson. It aired for only 12 episodes (although 13 were made) on ABC between 1983 and 1984. The series was loosely, and unofficially, based on the ground-breaking 1982 film Tron.
• Episode 20 of Tiki Bar TV ("Son of the Internet") parodies several scenes from Tron and includes the MCP's famous "End Of Line" in the closing slate.
• In the Anime Filler Yu-Gi-Oh Arc "The Cyber Network" Kaiba meets his Step Brother, Noah for the very first time and Yugi and his friends accompany him in a Cyber Universe. Noah or his father have MCP-like control in this universe. A similar 3-part episode was more Tron related earlier in the series in which Flying Vechicles are more of a distinct element.

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Other external references

• The CGI TV series ReBoot borrowed heavily from Tron for its own depiction of a world inside a personal computer, most notably in the way that its denizens regard "The User" as a distant, deity-like figure.
• The Korean animated feature Space Thunder Kids features a fight scene using the deadly flying discs and a villain that looks like Sark.
• A light cycle race was used in a short animated promo for the television network Teletoon, with the light cycles being replaced by the Teletoon logo.
• The video clip for the song Soundtropolis by German electronic music band Members Of Mayday is heavily inspired by this movie.
• The video clip for the song 12:51 by the band The Strokes is also inspired by this movie.
• The song "Fly High" by the Japanese rock band The Mad Capsule Markets is accompanied by a music video that was highly inspired by Tron. It uses many elements of the movie, most notably the Light Cycle sequences.
• In the Battlestar Galactica episode "Torn", the famous "End Of Line" sign-off appears when the Cylon basestar hybrid is agitated. A subsequent episode, "Hero", features the same phrase written on an access hatch during a dream experienced by one of the Cylon characters.
• In one Halloween-themed cartoon on Homestar Runner, The Poopsmith's Halloween costume is Tron.
• In the Venture Bros. season finale episode for season 2, Showdown at Cremation Creek (Part II), one of the vehicles fleeing from the Monarch's Cocoon appears to be based on a recognizer vehicle. It's presumably piloted by the character who has a floating computer chip for a head.
• Honda parodied the Light Cycle sequence in a TV commercial for the 2007 Civic SI coupe.
• In an episode of The Fairly Odd Parents, Timmy's "ultimate" video game contains elements from Tron.
• Australian musical comedy trio Tripod perform a song entitled "Someday The Lord," one of the verses of which is about going to a "Tron" convention in the company of Jesus Christ.
• A commercial for The Sci Fi Channel features skateboarder Tony Hawk on a lightcycle-like skateboard, in full Tron getup, and at the end kickflips over a lightwall forcing the red skateboarder to crash.
• The video clip for the song Qu'en est-il de la chance by the Quebec singer Pierre Lapointe is also inspired by this movie.
• In the Star Wars parody Star Warped by A3R Roberts, Episode 1 is entitled "The Fans-of-Tron Menace" and Tron is mentioned among several other classic Science Fiction influences which the body draws on to create the universe in which the stories are set.

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Video games

Because games play an important role in the film, it is not surprising that a number of Tron-inspired video games have been made over the years:

• Atari, Inc. had plans to develop a real Space Paranoids game, but this was cancelled due to the video game crash of 1983, along with arcade adaptations of Superman III and The Last Starfighter.
• In 1982, Midway Games released the Tron arcade game, which consisted of four mini-games based on sequences in the movie. This game earned more than the film's initial release.^{[citation needed]} In 1983, Midway released Discs of Tron, a sequel that focused on disc combat.
• Mattel Electronics released three separate Tron games (unrelated to the arcade game) for the Intellivision game console in 1982: Tron Deadly Discs, Tron Maze-A-Tron, and Tron Solar Sailer. Deadly Discs was later ported to the Atari 2600 (along with an original Tron game for that platform, Adventures of Tron), and a version also appeared for the short-lived Aquarius home computer. A special joystick resembling the Tron arcade game joystick was also created as a free giveaway in a special pack that included both Atari 2600 Tron video games.
• Tron 2.0, a computer game sequel released for Windows and Macintosh, was released on August 26, 2003. In this first person shooter game, the player takes the part of Alan Bradley's son Jet, who is pulled into the computer world to fight a computer virus. A separate version of this game, called Tron 2.0 Killer App, is available for the Xbox, and features new multiplayer modes.
• In the Game Boy Advance version of Tron 2.0 Killer App, Tron and a character from the computer and XBox versions of the game, a Light Cycle program named Mercury, fight their way through the ENCOM computer to stop a virus called The Corruptor. The game includes light cycle, battle tank, and recognizer battle modes, several security-related minigames, and the arcade games Tron and Discs of Tron. While the game is minimally connected to the PC game, one of the 100 unlockable chips shows a picture of Jet Bradley.
• Several unofficial Light Cycle games exist on the Internet, the most prominent of which are Armagetron Advanced and GLTron.

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Games that reference Tron

• Kingdom Hearts II (PS2), by Disney/Square Enix, features a world named "Space Paranoids" (after one of Flynn's games in the film) that is set in the world of Tron. This world is the most important Disney-based world in the game in terms of plot.
  • Tetsuya Nomura (the director of the Kingdom Hearts series) stated in an interview that Tron was the first Disney movie that was suggested to be used in the game. He got his inspiration after seeing a game designer working on Tron 2.0 Killer App on a computer during a visit to Disney in the United States. Bruce Boxleitner reprises his role as Tron in the English version, while Sark and MCP are voiced by veteran voice actor Corey Burton.
• Shadow the Hedgehog (multiple systems) features two levels named Digital Circuit and Mad Matrix. The visuals and background music in these levels bear a strong resemblance to those of Tron.
• In September 2006, Virtual Magic Kingdom (VMK), an online world created by Disney, held a "Tron Month" in which players could purchase a Tron outfit and various items to use in their virtual game.
• Darwinia (PC), by Introversion Software, bears a strong visual resemblance to Tron. Some of its characters, such as an "Engineer" that looks remarkably like a sentinel, also look very similar to characters in the Tron universe.
• Super Smash Bros. Melee (GameCube) features a bonus level resembling the visual design of Tron's computer world, with an accompanying music track that was evidently inspired by the movie's soundtrack.
• NetHack (PC) features an enemy called a grid bug. Its in-game description is an excerpt from the Tron novel.
• Deus Ex (PC) uses the password "reindeerflotilla" for a computer logon, the same password used by Flynn to break into the system in the laser bay.
  • This password appears again in Tron 2.0 when activating some computerized tanks.
• The entire Sanctuary Fortress section of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (GameCube) appears to have been heavily inspired by Tron. In addition, one control panel in this area reads "Shield deactivated. End Of Line."
• In Sam & Max: Reality 2.0, if you end a conversation with the C.O.P.S. twice or more, Curt (an Osborne 1) will say "End of line.", signaling the end of the conversation. Also, much of Reality 2.0, primarily the driving sequence, is modeled after the virtual world in the film.
• In the Timesplitters games there is a tileset in mapmaker called virtual that has a very similar look.

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Reception

Tron was initially not very successful, only grossing approximately double its budget in the USA ($33,000,000). Critical reviews were mixed. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four out of four stars and described the film as "a dazzling movie from Walt Disney in which computers have been used to make themselves romantic and glamorous. Here's a technological sound-and-light show that is sensational and brainy, stylish, and fun."^[4] However, near the end of his review he noted (in a positive tone) that "This is an almost wholly technological movie. Although it's populated by actors who are engaging (Bridges, Cindy Morgan) or sinister (Warner), it is not really a movie about human nature. Like Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back or Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, but much more so, this movie is a machine to dazzle and delight us."^[5] Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ... The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago. ... This movie poster for Star Wars depicts many of the films important elements, such as Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, X-Wing and Y-Wing fighters Star Wars, retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in 1981 (see note at Title,) is the original (and in chronological... Movie poster Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is the sequel to the first released Star Wars movie, and the second film released in the original trilogy. ... Movie poster Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, is a science fiction film that debuted in 1983, and re-released with changes in 1997 and 2004. ...

On the other hand, Variety Magazine disliked the film and said in its review, "Tron is loaded with visual delights but falls way short of the mark in story and viewer involvement. Screenwriter-director Steven Lisberger has adequately marshalled a huge force of technicians to deliver the dazzle, but even kids (and specifically computer game freaks) will have a difficult time getting hooked on the situations."^[6] Variety is a daily magazine for the entertainment industry. ...

"In the year it was released," says director Lisberger, "the Motion Picture Academy refused to nominate Tron for special effects because they said we 'cheated' when we used computers which, in the light of what happened, is just mind-boggling."

Despite the film's initial unpopularity, it has remained a cult favorite due mainly to its innovative use of computer graphics and its computer and video-game plot line. In 1987, the French radio station TopFM voted Tron the best film with computer graphics in its annual film competition. It retained that title for ten years until Titanic was released in 1997. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For the journal by ACM SIGGRAPH, see Computer Graphics (Publication). ... Titanic is a 1997 romantic drama film directed, written, and co-produced by James Cameron about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. ...

Trivia

• Actors Bruce Boxleitner (Alan Bradley/Tron) and Peter Jurasik (Crom) would later team up again in the TV series Babylon 5. While their Tron characters never met, on B5 they had many scenes together (Boxleitner as John Sheridan, and Jurasik as Londo Mollari).
• Originally, actor Peter O'Toole wanted to play the part of TRON, and vigorously tried to prove that he was the right man for the job by jumping between two hotel beds while Director Steven Lisberger sat and watched. (Source, Steven Lisberger panel interview at the 25th Anniversary presentation of TRON)
• A hidden Mickey makes an appearance in the movie: During the Solar Sailer sequence, immediately after Flynn tells Tron and Yori that Ram "didn't make it", Mickey's characteristic silhouette scrolls past on the plain over which the Sailer is flying. Consequently, this is the first known computer rendering of a Disney character in 3D.^[7]
• After Tron, Ram and Flynn escape from the Light Cycle arena, Sark is shown in front of a map screen angrily ordering tanks to capture them. In wide-screen, high-definition DVD and theatrical presentations of the film, Pac-Man is visible toward the upper-left corner of the screen. (In TV broadcasts and full-screen video, the video-game character is offscreen.) Also, sounds from the video game can be heard in the background throughout this scene.
• The words "Gort Klaatu barada nikto" appear posted on a sign hanging in Alan's cubicle. This is a reference to the 1951 Cold-War-era science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still, in which the phrase "Gort, Klaatu barada nikto" was used to stop Gort, the robot in the film, from destroying the world.
• During the Solar Sailer sequence, a scene depicts Grid Bugs (four-legged spider-like creatures) appearing and multiplying, while offscreen, Yori warns Tron to watch out for them. It is not clear how this scene relates to the Sailer sequence, since none of the characters appear in the scene and the Grid Bugs never appear or are mentioned again in the rest of the film. The scene was added in post-production as a link to the video game, which includes a grid bug level.^{[citation needed]}
• The name Alan Bradley is an alternate spelling of Allen Bradley, the name of a company that manufactures programmable logic controllers.
• The program Tron is a form of Intrusion prevention system.
• The name Clu is likely derivative of the CLU programming language.
• "TRON" (short for TRace ON) is a command in the BASIC programming language that enables a programmer to view code as it runs. However, Lisberger and his team of animators had already coined the phrase TRON borrowing from the word elecTRONic which is how the team described the essence of the character. The electrical nature of TRON was key to the concept of the film and the techniques used to realize him on the big screen.
• Stuntman Ted White would later go on to play the hockey-masked killer Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter.
• One of the Disney "Imagineers" that worked on TRON was a young programmer named John Lasseter, who after seeing the potential of CGI animation, left Disney and founded Pixar Animations. The firm struck up a partnership with Disney in 1992, and to date have made 8 blockbuster fully CGI-animated films: Toy Story (1995*), A Bug's Life (1998*), Toy Story 2 (1999*), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Finding Nemo (2003), The Incredibles (2004), Cars (2006*), and Ratatouille (2007). In 2006, Disney absorbed Pixar Animations, but it remains an independent studio within the company. (*These films were directed by Pixar founder John Lasseter)

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See also

• Simulated reality
• Tron Guy

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