Deadline has learned that Tron: Ares actually cost $220 million net, not the reported $170 million-$180 million that was floated out there.
I can tell you how, Jared Leto.
I used to like him but he’s been consistently disappointing me for like a decade.
Yeah, guy has absolutely nailed a few roles. Then does shit like this and Morbius.
He’s got the talent. He just isn’t using it.
And apparently he’s a weirdo IRL, but that’s par for the course for celebrities.
I forgot about that a new Tron movie was in the making. I saw a trailer at the cinema this past September, it didn’t show much but I was decided to go and see the new one in the cinema too (I usually only go to the movie theatre once per year for the one I cannot wait to see at home).
Next day I saw a trailer on TV that included Jared Leto and decided to not watch the movie at all.
I’d say it’s partly because Leto and partly because it’s Tron and partly NIN being popular but I’d guess fewer people want to sit through a 2 hour NIN music video like daft punk
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.
Can’t wait until Disney drops a quarter billion on a sequel to Zardoz starring Shia LaBeouf
Holy hell, they really dropped 220 mill on a Tron movie?
I can help out by buying a decently feature laden packed 4K disc. 😁
