History Trivia / TronLegacy

* ExecutiveMeddling: Music/DaftPunk's score was heavily altered by Creator/HansZimmer and his company Remote Control Productions after test audiences had trouble following the music. As a result, it sounds less like Daft Punk and more like a ripoff of Zimmer's own ''Film/{{Inception}}'' and Brad Fiedel's ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}''.

* HeyItsThatGuy:
** Quorra is [[Series/{{House}} Thirteen]].
** [[Film/{{Troy}} Patroclus]] as [[Creator/GarrettHedlund Sam Flynn]].
** [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Doc Cottle]] as Grandpa Flynn.
** "The Next Day" basically stars Ram a.k.a. the Popcorn guy from the original film.
** It's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it one, but Grandma Flynn is [[Series/DoogieHowserMD Katherine Howser]].
* HeyItsThatVoice:
** The Grid voice is that of [[Anime/{{Robotech}} Millia Fallyna]].
** The Light Jet Sentry is [[Manga/BlackLagoon Dutch]].

** The film itself gets called "{{Disney}}'s GameOfThrones" on {{Tumblr}} due to the depressing tone and high body count.

** [[Film/{{Troy}} Patro]][[Creator/GarrettHedlund clus]] as Sam Flynn.

** The Grid itself. Back in TheEighties, when Flynn built it, it was a multi-millon-dollar supercomputer that he used to revolutionize all of ENCOM's software, the source of his fortune. 2011? ''[[spoiler:Sam puts the entire thing on a memory card and wears it as a necklace the size of a common SD card!]]''
*** [[spoiler:SanDisk recently did introduce 512GB full size SDXC and 128GB microSDXC cards, pricey for sure, but to store 512GB of data using 80's tech you do need a truck full of hard drives, which need a datacenter worth of servers to make them all run properly.]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Reportedly, {{Music/deadmau5}} was under consideration to compose the score for the film. According to him, had he been offered the job and found out that Daft Punk was being considered, [[OneOfUs he would have given the job to them]].
** A planned 2017 sequel [[http://www.forbes.com/sites/davegonzales/2015/05/31/the-inevitable-tron-3-isnt-happening/ has been scrapped]] from a combination of factors, one of which being the flopping of ''Film/{{Tomorrowland}}'', another big-budget Disney sci-fi action film (''Legacy'' barely turned a profit for Disney, who may not have been eager to throw another $150 million for another ''Tron''). Also cited is a crowded studio schedule; with the current game plan being built around year-round tentpoles of ''Marvel'', ''Star Wars'', and live-action Disney adaptations, there might have been no room to properly schedule and market ''Tron'' in the face of heavy competition.

** A planned ~2017 sequel [[http://www.forbes.com/sites/davegonzales/2015/05/31/the-inevitable-tron-3-isnt-happening/ has been scrapped]] possibly due to the failure of ''Film/{{Tomorrowland}}'', another big-budget Disney sci-fi action film.

** [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Doc Cottle]] as Grandpa Flynn.

* StarMakingRole: While they're not exactly huge stars, both Creator/GarrettHelund and Creator/OliviaWilde started appearing in more high-profile movies after their roles in this film.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Reportedly, {{Music/deadmau5}} was under consideration to compose the score for the film. According to him, had he been offered the job and found out that Daft Punk was being considered, [[OneOfUs he would have given the job to them.]]

** The Grid itself. Back in TheEighties, when Flynn built it, it was a multi-millon-dollar supercomputer that he used to revolutionize all of ENCOM's software, the source of his fortune. 2011? ''[[spoiler:Sam puts the entire thing on a memory card and wears it as a necklace!]]''

** [[Film/{{Troy}} Patro]][[GarrettHedlund clus]] as Sam Flynn.

* DevelopmentHell: After years in development hell, the first indication that Disney was serious about creating a sequel was the showing of a "VFX Concept Test" teaser at Comic-Con 2008. The teaser showed the updated light-cycles, and revealed Jeff Bridges as Flynn and CLU. The title revealed was "TR2N", but by the time the teaser was released (officially) online several months later, the title had been changed to "TRON: Legacy".

* DoingItForTheArt: Olivia Wilde. She was [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjHbaI_SnL0 very committed to her character]], to the point that she influenced everything from her appearance to preventing her from being a SatelliteLoveInterest.
** Likewise, {{Music/DaftPunk}} had a ''lot'' of questions for the {{Disney}} representatives who approached them about the soundtrack. The pair, unsurprisingly, turned out to be [[PromotedFanboy raging fanboys]] who wanted to know if it would be done "right." The Disney execs admitted that they felt like the musicians were interviewing ''them'' for the job, not the other way around.

** The Grid voice is that of [[{{Anime/Robotech}} Millia Fallyna]].

** In addition to the above, improvements in computer technology in the TRON universe, just as in the real world, would make it reasonable to expect that humanoids, vehicles, water, even simulated weather would be better depicted than as seen in the original film. If nothing else, the programs no longer need to wear goofy hats and no longer look facially like something out of a 1920 silent German Expressionist film.

** Likewise, {{Music/DaftPunk}} had a ''lot'' of questions for the {{Disney}} representatives who approached them about the soundtrack. The pair, unsirprisingly, turned out to be [[AscendedFanboy raging fanboys]] who wanted to know if it would be done "right." The Disney exec admitted that he felt like the m usicians were interviewing ''him'' for rthe job, not the other way around.

** Music/DaftPunk (who did the soundtrack) get a cameo as the DJ programs in the End of Line Club.

** MichaelSheen is Castor/Zuse.
** Steve Lisberger, who wrote and directed [[Film/{{Tron}} the original]], is the bartender at the End of the Line Club.
** CillianMurphy is Dillinger Jr.

* FanNickname: Kevin Flynn is "Obi-Wan Lebowski".
* {{Defictionalization}}: If you are one of five lucky people, you can own your very own [[http://gizmodo.com/5575554/important-street+legal-tron-lightcycles-are-now-up-for-auction street-legal Light Cycle.]]

* FanNickname: Some people refer to [[spoiler:Tron/Rinzler as Tronzler]].

* ActorAllusion: To his role in ''Film/TheBigLebowski''.

* ''TRON: Legacy'' appears as a level in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3D'', called '''The Grid'''; while it's mostly unrelated to [[Film/{{Tron}} Space Paranoids]] from VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII, there is a minor connection between the two worlds when playing as Sora. [[spoiler: Rinzler]] also serves as a boss in the game.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Music/DaftPunk's score was heavily altered by Creator/HansZimmer and his company Remote Control Productions after test audiences had trouble following the music. As a result, it sounds less like Daft Punk and more like a ripoff of Zimmer's own ''{{Film/Inception}}'' and Brad Fiedel's ''{{Franchise/Terminator}}''.
* FanNickname: Some people refer to [[spoiler:Tron/Rinzler as Tronzler]]
* HeyItsThatGuy

** Quorra is [[{{Series/House}} Thirteen]].
** [[{{Film/Troy}} Patro]][[GarrettHedlund clus]] as Sam Flynn.

** Steve Lisberger, who wrote and directed [[{{Film/Tron}} the original]], is the bartender at the End of the Line Club.

** It's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it one, but Grandma Flynn is [[DoogieHowserMD Katherine Howser]].
* HeyItsThatVoice

* PromotedFanboy: Michael Sheen was so eager to join ''Legacy'', being a huge fan of the original, that his agents actually had to hide his fandom from Disney so the actor wouldn't get lowballed for it. Similarly, Daft Punk; WordOfGod states that his initial interview with the duo felt more like the musicians were interviewing him to make sure he was doing right by the ''Tron'' name.
* RecycledScript: A surprising amount of plot elements from ''[[VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh TRON 2.0]]'', the [[CanonDiscontinuity discredited]] sequel, match the movie. Son of the original leads? Check. Running through cyberspace looking for his dad? Check. Drafted to the lightcycle arena deathmatch and rescued by a mysterious female Program? Check. Flynn gone missing in both timelines and no one knows where Tron himself vanished to? Check...

* ''TRON: Legacy'' appears as a level in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3D'', called ''The Grid''; while it's mostly unrelated to [[Film/{{Tron}} Space Paranoids]] from VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII, there is a minor connection between the two worlds when playing as Sora. [[spoiler: Rinzler]] also serves as a boss in the game.

* ''TRON: Legacy'' appears as a level in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3D'', called ''The Grid'' and somewhat unrelated to [[Film/{{Tron}} Space Paranoids]] from VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII.