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Tron 3 has been in the news a lot lately, after hiring a new writer for another draft of the script, and confirming Garrett Hedlund's involvement. As you probably know, Joseph Kosinski is currently wrapping up production on his unrelated sci-fi project/Tom Cruise action movie, "Oblivion". Now, he's focusing his efforts on getting Tron 3 in the pipeline.

The most interesting aspect of his recent interview with Collider is when he starts talking about the future of the Tron franchise. Key quotes below:

"Well the only reason to go back, for me and I think for anyone involved would be if we could do something truly spectacular. We've been talking about it for a couple years and there's always been this idea, a big idea, in the back of my head that we've been talking about. The idea itself, the notion of what the next Tron could be, is exciting enough that it would be worth going back to do it. Obviously we hinted some things at the end of Legacy, it's kind of there for people to see what that potential is. So we just want to make sure that we have a script that delivers on that promise on an epic scale."

"I've said it would have to be our Empire Strikes Back for me to come back and for me to pull the whole team back together. I think we do have that idea. We do have the idea that feels big and really blows the doors off this franchise. It's hinted at promises of something for two movies now, for thirty years, so it's time to deliver on that. But the script's got to be at a level that makes it worth going back for, because it's a lot of work to make a movie like this and it's a multi-year project. So we've got our writer Jesse Wigutow on it right now writing, and fingers crossed if it all comes together, as we hope it will, there could be another Tron in the next few years, and it's going to be awesome."

"I don't want to say too much about it but the goal would not be to simply re-use. We're not going to re-use the assets from Legacy, that's no fun. If we're going to do to it we're going to reinvent all over again and it's going to be a whole new generation for reasons that are very story-driven. That's all I can say."

"I think time has passed. It feels like we're kind of real-time in step. So however much time has passed since Legacy came out would also have transpired in the real world. So it will still be contemporary. So let's say if the Tron sequel comes out in 2015, then four or five years have passed since the last movie."

So, is this what's next for you, after Oblivion?

"There is certainly a chance, like I said; we're writing the script now. Sometimes with these things all the pieces fall into place. I mean, we've been talking about this for years and we don't have the script now, but sometimes things fall into place very quickly, and if everything lines up it could happen."

Very interesting news for sure.
One of the questions I had seems to have been answered; whether or not Kosinski and the rest of the team planned to revisit the visual style of Legacy. I was expecting one of two things to happen:

1. Make a trilogy of films starting with Legacy that chronicle Sam's story and use the same visual style.

2. Make a third and final film with an entirely different story that departs from the visual style of Legacy and creates a new look and setting.

From what Kosinski has said in the Collider interview, he seems to be leaning heavily towards option number 2, which is pretty exciting.