Deadline has learned that Tron: Ares actually cost $220 million net, not the reported $170 million-$180 million that was floated out there.
Deadline has learned that Tron: Ares actually cost $220 million net, not the reported $170 million-$180 million that was floated out there.
I don’t get it. Tron isn’t some widespread beloved franchise.
I’m older now and it’s barely in my lexicon.
Why did they make this?
This is my reaction. This smacks of the John Carter Debacle. What the hell where they thinking when they drop 1/4 of a billion on something with no name recognition.
In the case of John Carter, they had big plans for a franchise and they park area but a change in Disney leadership meant they needed to kill the stuff the prior guy had going and they undercut the marketing and by avoiding the ‘of Mars’ in the title it just sounded generic and uninteresting.
I don’t know if it would have been a massive financial success since the studio meddling undercut a little of solid characterizations and ran up the budget, but competebt marketing certainly would have helped.
Because they own the IP and franchises make money if you can get them off the ground successfully. They tried with this one and failed.
Disney will probably shift this property to a CGI cartoon on their streaming channel next. Gotta pad out that streaming offering.