Tron 3 to film this Fall

[RaphaelinSTL]

Just posting again for the sake of the score ... Trent's also been on a roll OST-wise. I adored the Mutant Mayhem score from last year and his Challengers soundtrack work is some of the craziest stuff he's done in a while. I like his 2010-score stuff for the most part, but his score for The Social Network really set the bar super high.

I'm also a huge fan of ambient, so a lot of what he dabbled in since 2010 is always welcomed, but it's not stuff I revisit often ... unlike TSN, Mutant Mayhem and Challengers.

Really, really excited to see what the two of them come up with here. I also highly recommend NIN's run of two EPs and an album from 2016 to 2018 ... lots of good stuff in there.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by RaphaelinSTL

Holy ****. Nine Inch Nails is my favorite band of all time, and this is kind of huge.

Could it be that it's a marketing tactic to say it's scored by NIN as opposed to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross?

If I had to speculate, TPTB approached Reznor and said, "Hey, we want you to do the score. But people are going to be pissed that it isn't Daft Punk doing the score. So if you do it, it HAS to be as NIN, not 'Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.' For marquee value."

I dunno. 20 years ago this would have blown my mind. I just haven't heard a lot of music from Reznor beyond "The Fragile" album that's wowed me, beyond basic atmospheric music here and there.

[RaphaelinSTL]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

If I had to speculate, TPTB approached Reznor and said, "Hey, we want you to do the score. But people are going to be pissed that it isn't Daft Punk doing the score. So if you do it, it HAS to be as NIN, not 'Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.' For marquee value."

I dunno. 20 years ago this would have blown my mind. I just haven't heard a lot of music from Reznor beyond "The Fragile" album that's wowed me, beyond basic atmospheric music here and there.

I mean, you're talking to a huge NIN fan here whose favorite album of all time is "The Fragile" and changed the way I listen to and think of music ... so I'm a little biased, haha. I think the thing I've always liked about Trent's career as I got older was that there are always hints of what you expect a NIN record to sound or feel like, but each album has a different way of going about it. The most exciting artists to me are the ones that keep you guessing, makes sense why Reznor was such a huge fan of David Bowie.

Not sure what you listen to regularly, but I think there's been some great stuff in his work since "With Teeth".

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by RaphaelinSTL

I mean, you're talking to a huge NIN fan here whose favorite album of all time is "The Fragile" and changed the way I listen to and think of music ...

Are you kidding me? That album totally shaped my high school years. I never didn't have it on repeat. That album was a true "experience." Better than "The Downward Spiral." A true work of art, as I've ever seen in my life.

so I'm a little biased, haha. I think the thing I've always liked about Trent's career as I got older was that there are always hints of what you expect a NIN record to sound or feel like, but each album has a different way of going about it. The most exciting artists to me are the ones that keep you guessing, makes sense why Reznor was such a huge fan of David Bowie.

Not sure what you listen to regularly, but I think there's been some great stuff in his work since "With Teeth".

I mean... can you tell me examples? There's probably a lot of stuff I've glossed over because everything since "The Fragile" (and yeah, I think there was like 1 or 2 bangers on With Teeth). Year Zero or whatever it was, it didn't do anything for me. I think he did his best work when he was high, then he did EVEN BETTER when he was sobering up... and then after that he didn't really have much to say. Except being mad at George Bush or something. And then -- literally -- just "noise" since.

[IMJ]

Daft Punk was churning out straight-up masterpieces with the Legacy soundtrack and their Random Access Memories album. I'd love to see them back for this new movie.

But, Reznor has done some solid soundtracks too. Although, the truth is that while The Downward Spiral was this big phenomena-release back in High School, I always liked Broken and Pretty Hate Machine more....

[Andrew NDB]

[IMJ]

Super excited, but also hoping that something is done with Flynn's son and Kora from the last movie.

I know that it's really Flynn's trilogy, but still....

[Andrew NDB]

They f***ing better. And plus the whole movie is basically building off the ending scene of the last movie where Kora came to the real world. And Ares was also mentioned in it as well.

Most signs point to Tron: Ares mostly being a repurposing of the old Tron 3 scripts where basically Kora would have been Ares.

[Mayhem]

Wryly amusing that Ares is scored by NiN who beat out Daft Punk for Tron Legacy to the best soundtrack Oscar.

And as Andrew notes, given the end to Legacy, there’s need to be some reference to Quorra here, or even Sam. Wonder if we will see Boxleitner or Cillian Murphy in any capacity? Sadly no David Warner probably despite Legacy’s “hidden” end scene.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

They f***ing better. And plus the whole movie is basically building off the ending scene of the last movie where Kora came to the real world. And Ares was also mentioned in it as well.

Most signs point to Tron: Ares mostly being a repurposing of the old Tron 3 scripts where basically Kora would have been Ares.

Be careful with that. Technodrome clowns have a problem computing that failed scripts are repurposed and reincorporated into new material. Remember that fiasco of a "conversation"?

On another note now I wouldn't mind sitting through that animated Tron show that was on for a bit. Too bad that didn't have stronger legs.

[sdp]

Tron go outside the computers? This is ridiculous and a silly concept to try to make a movie that seems to be going for a more serious tone than the original. The appeal of Tron has been going inside the computer.
I know Tron has always failed but this one is going to be even worse.

I don't even remember what happened in Legacy, did they really set up going to the real world? Even if it did I'm sure this movie will be treated like a soft-reboot not really taking much into account from Legacy since no one watched that and it's been 10+ years since it came out.

[IMJ]

I'm going to gamble that the although the Score to this one will be solid and interesting, it won't even remotely be as listenable all the way through as what Daft Punk churned out.

The Reznor scores have personality of their own, but they are loaded with atmospheric sounds that are routinely broken up by obnoxious loud moments. And so, basically the underlying sounds are intriguing, but not deeply "listenable" as compositions. The Gone Girl soundtrack is a perfect example of this - great, but not truly "listenable" because every song has moments of being broken up by chaos and it takes you out of the thesis of the moment.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by IMJ

I'm going to gamble that the although the Score to this one will be solid and interesting, it won't even remotely be as listenable all the way through as what Daft Punk churned out.

The Reznor scores have personality of their own, but they are loaded with atmospheric sounds that are routinely broken up by obnoxious loud moments. And so, basically the underlying sounds are intriguing, but not deeply "listenable" as compositions. The Gone Girl soundtrack is a perfect example of this - great, but not truly "listenable" because every song has moments of being broken up by chaos and it takes you out of the thesis of the moment.

Yeah, probably. Tron: Legacy's soundtrack you can listen to outside of the movie. I'm sure Tron: Ares's soundtrack will be decent... IN the movie, serving the movie, but wouldn't be something you'd be listening to outside of it.

Reznor is good at "melodic noise." But that Daft Punk score was art.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Reznor is good at "melodic noise." But that Daft Punk score was art.

Loved this.... yeah exactly. You really encapsulated what I was illustrating there. Exactly.

[Andrew NDB]

Yeah... just a lot of NIN "noise" going on musically.

[Andrew NDB]

https://www.darkhorizons.com/tron-ar...ins-absentees/

The absence of the two characters from Legacy is "explained." Seems like maybe Olivia Wilde didn't want to come back and as such they didn't want to bother bringing back Garret?

[Andrew NDB]

So this was the final trailer, I guess. It comes out on Friday. Jeeze... I'm not sure about this movie at all. I hope it's great... but if it is, they're hiding a lot in these trailers. Which could be a GREAT thing.

What we know so far:

* Jeff Bridges only did like a 1 day shoot. So we shouldn't expect too much there.

* Early leaks show it's all about a millennial Asian lady being the key to saving us from climate change, or something.

* Encom has been reduced to a whiney kid with tattoos who is mostly kept in check by Gillian Anderson (his mommy).

* Everything about the end of Legacy is gone. Remember? Sam Flynn took control of Encom. Cillian Murphy was on the board (the son of David Warner from the first movie) and allowed to stay. Sam Flynn was about to save the world with Quorra's blood that can save everything and all. Yeah. All gone. Maybe not even mentioned? But we don't know yet. But wow... they'll need some whopper of an explanation here.

* Also... remember this? I didn't. I watched it 15 years ago and then forgot about it. But this was a little added film included on DVDs and such back then. A Tron 2.5, as it were. "The Next Day."

[sdp]

This is basically a soft reboot, nobody remembers Legacy.

Why do people hate Jared Leto so much? Based on reactions online you'd think he put Jesus on the cross or something. I mean I didn't like his Joker either but damn, people always get personal when his name pops up

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by sdp

Why do people hate Jared Leto so much?

I guess the stuff about him in his band/cult where he was supposedly grooming a bunch of underage women regularly? I don't think anything was ever definitively proven. But it's something like that, coupled with the "what a weird guy" sentiment with all of his backstage antics on stuff like Suicide Squad where he'd supposedly stay in character as the Joker and send Will Smith dead rats or such.

[Barkworm]

I've been listening to some of the soundtrack lately, it's really good.