NEWS: Disney Working on Tron: Legacy Sequel

Greetings, program! It looks like we're headed back to The Grid as Disney inches closer to a third Tron movie.

VIDEO VIEW: Tron: Uprising - New Episodes This Fall!

All I can say is ''about bloody time!''

NEWS: Tron: Uprising Premieres Tonight

Just a reminder that the animated Tron/Tron: Legacy ''bridging'' series, Tron: Uprising premieres tonight at 9PM EST on Disney XD.

And if you missed it first time around, here's the prequel/intro episode, Beck's Beginning, which Disney aired earlier this year both on their XD channel and online.

VIDEO VIEW: Tron Uprising Episode One

Animated se/pre-quel Tron Uprising won't be hitting our screens until June 7th but ahead of that, Disney has released this special preview of the show with Episode One: Beck's Beginning. 

VIDEO VIEW: New Tron Uprising Trailer

Thanks to this new promo - which comes to us via Bleeding Cool - we now know that Tron: Uprising will premiere on Disney's Disney DX Channel on the 18th of May.

NEWS: Tron Uprising Trailer

Thanks to Bleeding Cool for the spot.

VIDEO VIEW: Tron Uprising - Extended Teaser

 

We've already seen much of the footage included in this video but now - as spotted by ComicBookMovie.com - here's the extended Tron Uprising teaser from last year (which we somehow missed), complete with Daft Punk soundtrack and some pre-production concept designs to further whet your appetite.

Tron Uprising will air on Disney XD later this year.

NEWS: Tron: Legacy Sequel On the Cards?

HitFix is reporting that Disney has hired screenwriter Dan DiGilio to pen the third installment in the Tron Saga. And yes, if the teen angst of an annoyingly wishy-washy bint and a poufy-haired ''vampire'' can be called a ''Saga'' then so too can the Tron movies. 

I'm taking Saga back.

Despite Disney's initial misgivings about the 2010 sequel, Tron: Legacy actually performed very respectably at the box office, with its opening weekend out-grossing Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Fast Five. Globally it even out-grossed Paramount's mighty Star Trek reboot - which currently has a sequel in the works...

It's still early days but given that Disney has commissioned the animated TV show Tron: Uprising for the Disney DX channel then perhaps our digital hero will be returning to the big screen. Let's just hope the tie-in toys are better this time around.