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Legacy Should Be the Blueprint for the Modern Legacy Sequel

Tron: Legacy is the type of sequel modern Hollywood dreams about, but rarely gets right. I figured this out a few weeks ago when, after seeing that Disney was finally in production on a long-awaited Tron 3, I went back and revisited the 2010 film. But, of course, one can’t simply revisit Tron: Legacy. You have to tee it up by rewatching the original 1982 Tron too, and the double-feature experience made Tron: Legacy shine for me in ways it never did upon initial release.Rainn Wilson’s First Fandoms: Star Trek And…

From Our Point of View This Week, the Jedi Are Evil

Photo: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Disney (Getty Images), Image: Marvel, Warner Bros., Lionsgate, Twitter/Warner Bros, Warner Bros., Disney, DisneyEvil! This week there’s a lot of it, whether it’s seeming confirmation as to just who Emma Corrin will play in Deadpool and Wolverine, or Star Wars subtly and not so subtly reminding us that the Jedi Order really did go off the rails with all that systemic rot. Also evil: the way Bill Skarsgård looks in the new Crow reboot? Maybe! Check out all this evil, and some good, in

Blade Runner 2049 Still Keeps Denis Villeneuve Awake at Night

Things are going really, really well for Denis Villeneuve right now. Dune: Part Two—the sequel to his six-time Oscar-winning 2021 Dune—has gotten rapturous reviews and is on track for massive box-office success. And his career pre-Dune was also full of acclaim. But one film in particular carried so much weight, he still feels its heft from time to time.Will We See More of Uhura's Relationship with Spock? | io9 Interview“Blade Runner is one of my favorite films, and it’s absolutely a masterpiece,” Villeneuve said in a new…

Ares Image Has a Very Juicy Easter Egg

After almost 15 years of development hell, the third Tron movie is finally in production. Star Jared Leto made the news official by dropping the first image of his character, Ares, for the 2025 release called Tron: Ares.Prepping the Sandworm Scenes in Dune: Part TwoThe image is striking and, if you’re a Tron fan, very intriguing. For example, we’ve never seen red on the Grid before. Blue? Yes. Yellow? Yes. But never red. Plus data discs are called that because they’re discs—and the one Ares is holding is a different…

Jared Leto Reveals First Look at Tron: Ares

It’s time to go back to the grid. Finally. Jared Leto took to his social media on Thursday to reveal our first look at the third Tron film, Tron: Ares, along with a release window of 2025.Sony's Morbius is a Messy VoidThe image reveals a red-suited character with a triangle-shaped data disc, both radical departures from the previous two films. Plus, while “Tron: Ares” was long the title people were using for the film, it had not yet become official. Now it is. Here’s the image and teaser...So, from this image it seems…