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For 20 years, 27-year-old Sam Flynn has been troubled and haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his eccentric father, Kevin Flynn, chairman of the software corporation ENCOM and the acclaimed creator of the best-selling video games "Space Paranoids" and "TRON" and whom told Sam crazy bedtime stories that he went into a computer and helped an heroic cyberspace freedom fighter called Tron to free cyberspace from an evil tyrannical super computer program Master Control Program. After he breaks into the ENCOM building and hacks into their computer system, Sam is paid a visit by an old friend of his father Alan Bradley whom tells Sam that he received a mysterious message which came from his father's old video arcade and Sam goes to investigate. Upon discovering a secret room in the video arcade, Sam accesses a computer in the secret room, but soon learns the bed stories that his father told him was true and he is transported into cyberspace. After being captured and forced to participate in gladiatorial games by Clu, an evil program whom is identical to Flynn whom rules cyberspace, Sam is rescued by a mysterious girl called Quorra and Sam is reunited with Flynn. Flynn revealed that himself, Tron and Clu had worked together to create a better computer system. But, Clu was corrupted and turned on Flynn and Tron and Flynn tried to escape, but was trapped due to the portal that allowed Flynn to travel into cyberspace automatically closing off and Flynn went into hiding. With the portal now open, Sam, Flynn and Quorra set off to get to the portal and return to the real world before the portal closes in 8 hours and they set out to stop Clu from reaching the portal as Clu intends to lead an army of loyal electronic warriors through the portal and invade the real world and it's up to Sam, Flynn and Quorra to stop him.

Tron: Ares is set to release in 2025.

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Tron is a security program created by Alan Bradley in the first Tron film. He has the appearance of his creator and user, Alan Bradley.

It is a sequel that takes place in present time about 27 years from the first film and will continue the story of Kevin Flynn but takes place in a new Grid developed by Flynn in the late 1980s.

Not crucial for understanding or enjoying Legacy, but recommended. The original TRON answers a few questions such as how Flynn gained control of Encom, more backstory on himself, Alan Bradley and by extension Tron too; why Flynn was motivated to create such a world. It also explains why there just happens to be a laser pointed right at the chair that sends Sam into the digital world of TRON.

It's called "Derezzed" by Daft Punk.

The original Tron was an experimental production back in 1982, involving large amounts of work and created at great financial expense, but its box office success was considered to be moderate. However, over the next decade, the movie started to gather a cult following that did not go unnoticed. Disney had been floating a sequel around since the 1990s but it really started to solidify in 2008 when a teaser trailer, directed by Joseph Kosinski was screened to the audience at the San Diego ComicCon, where it was a huge hit. The trailer featured Jeff Bridges playing Flynn aged in real time and featured a light cycle race with the Clu program as a rider resembling a young Jeff Bridges. After the teaser was shown, Disney decided to go ahead with an official sequel to Tron.

Kevin Flynn (played by Jeff Bridges) had a software engineer for Encom computers in Tron before he was fired and ended up running his own video arcade called Flynn's. At the end of the original Tron, he became the CEO of Encom.

Yes. The scenes involving him in the 1980s with his son Sam—and scenes of his computer counterpart Clu in the present day world of Tron—show Bridges as his younger self via the magic of computer manipulation. The same technique (sometimes referred to as "digital skin graft") had already been employed by the same studio or others, e.g. upon Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen for X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), and Brad Pitt for The Curios Case of Benjamin Button (2008). Thereafter or more recently it was used upon Iain Glen for Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016). There are many examples. A related technique is that of digitally over-imposing a well-photographed version of an actor's face onto another performer, as was the case for Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator Salvation (2009) and Terminator Genisys (2015), and for others: Hugo Weaving in The Matrix Reloaded (2003), Ian McDiarmid (only for a split second) in Revenge of the Sith (2005), Paul Walker (for unfinished scenes) in Furious 7 (2015), Robert Downey Jr. in Captain America: Civil War (2016), and the long-deceased Peter Cushing in Rogue One (2016). Either of the techniques and most likely the former was used for Kyle MacLachan in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode The Things We Bury (2014) (2014).

Clu 2 is a program based on Kevin Flynn's original Clu program from the first movie. Clu, in the first Tron was a program Kevin used to hack into programs. Clu resembled his user Kevin but spoke in a different voice. The original Clu was derezzed by the Master Control Program (MCP) in the original film. This film's new Clu is actually the program now running Flynn's own created world, called The Grid, and is the film's main antagonist. He was initially created by Flynn as a control program for the new version of the digital world, but turned on his creator.

He is playing his human character of Alan Bradley. Although Tron appears unmasked only briefly in flashback and is hidden for most of the film by his helmet, they have used the same computer de-aging techniques to make Bruce look younger as they have for Jeff Bridges' character of Clu 2. There is also a short flashback to 1989 showing a young computer de-aged Alan getting out of a car. Boxleitner also provides the voice for Tron.

No, Cindy Morgan is not in the film and neither are the characters of Lora and Yori. She appeared as Lora Baines Bradley in an ARG (alternate reality game) Disney event at Wondercon 2010 in San Francisco and the character has been married to Alan Bradley/Tron in the TRON universe for over 20 years. Morgan performed a voiceover for the MA3A character in the TRON: 2.0 (2003) video game but she was not asked to be a part of Tron: Legacy, the new Tron: Evolution (2010) videogame or the animated TRON: Uprising (2012-2013) television series.

Yes and they are updated. The light cycles are basically the same and are used in gladiatorial games like in the original Tron but they are now also used for transportation. The light stream that is ejected from the back of the bike is no longer limited to 90 degree angles it can know make arcs. The light cycles are activated around a program/user via a wand like device. A car version with two seats and four wheels called the Light Runner also makes an appearance, in addition to a jet. A light cycle based on the original design from the old Tron world can be found at Flynn's apartment, and is briefly used by his son.

Interestingly enough, the retro light cycle in Tron: Legacy is not computer-generated and is a physical mock-up unlike the animated version in the original Tron.

Yes. The Recognizers, vehicles originally created by Kevin Flynn for his game, "Space Paranoids", indeed are in the new movie with updated looks and advances just like the light cycles.

It is short for de-resolution (and thus possibly spelled "de-res"), the cyber-world equivalent of death. When a program in Tron de-rezes, it ceases to exist.

In Tron: Legacy, there is no MCP; at least not as a character or personification. The original MCP was destroyed in Tron. Although there is no "Master Control Program" in the film, the character of Clu 2 was originally built for a similar purpose and plays the same role in the film. On a side note, an actual master control program is an operating system or its kernel, without which no regular programs can run. It may be that an MCP in the Tron universe is overwritten with replacement software that takes over its responsibilities and powers rather than actually destroyed. A new MCP takes over (with or without personification), in other words. Otherwise the term is a character-specific moniker.

Yes. Flynn had the original Tron security program transferred to the new grid that he created.

Because this is a new world not the one from the original movie but a different one created by Kevin Flynn in the late 1980s. This new TRON world is called the Grid, and has been running on a server hidden in Flynn's arcade, disconnected from the internet, gradually evolving over the course of 20 years. The basics still seem to be there such as the light cycles, recognizers and solar sails. According to Joe Kosinski, The idea is that the Grid was created in the 1980s and evolved independent of the outside world. Syd Mead and Moebius' designs for the original Tron very much had an early 80s aesthetic, and it was fun to take these 1980s influences and evolve it forward within this particular world. (Source.)

Except for Tron, we are never told the fate of the original world and its inhabitants, but if Encom kept some of their old servers, the original world might still exist.

No, it is not, but that is due to the filmmaker's wishes. The "real world" footage is presented in 2D, and the "electronic world" footage is presented in 3D, as per the filmmaker's intentions. A disclaimer clarifies this before the opening credits in the 3D versions of the film and advises that the audience put on their 3D glasses right then and there due to the Disney logo and the opening credits being presented in 3D.

No to both. He's called Zuse, after computer pioneer Konrad Zuse.

The "Discs of TRON" arcade cabinet is indeed in the film, seen when Sam kneels down to pick up his quarter after it drops out of the coin return of the TRON game in Flynn's arcade. However, if one looks carefully at the "Discs of TRON" cabinet in the film, they can spot the logo of Bally / Midway, the actual makers of the game, instead of the ENCOM logo, the in-film makers of the TRON game.