If history has taught us anything, it’s that Tron sequels are never easy . Almost 30 years elapsed between the groundbreaking 1982 original and its 2010 sequel, Tron: Legacy . It then took a shorter, but still significant, 15 years for the third film, Tron: Ares, to be released, but that was never the plan. Many, many things changed over the years, and one of the people who was around for almost all of it was writer Jesse Wigutow.
Wigutow, who also worked on Legacy , was officially hired to write its sequel in 2012 . By then, director Joseph Kosinski, as well as multiple writers, had already been working on it for almost three years, starting well before Legacy’s release . Only, that film wasn’t called Tron: Ares . It was called Tron: Ascension, and it would’ve follo