Interview with Tron Creator Steven Lisberger

NeoCode writes "AintItCool has posted an interesting interview with the Tron creator Steven Lisberger. He doesn't talk much about the sequel Tron 2.0 (because of a Disney gag order) but he reflects about the original movie with nostalgia. He talks about what influenced Tron and what Tron meant (and still does) to people. Have a read."

Misnamed sequel...

[Gorm the DBA]

They really should call the sequel TROFF... or perhaps I need to get back on the medications.

Damn

[sllort]

I wish that they'd asked the guy who wrote the movie about fighting evil corporate intrusion countermeasures how he feels about his movie [amazon.com] being distributed with evil corporate intrusion countermeasures [cmu.edu].

Obligatory Quote

[daeley]

Eisner: What kind of consumer is he?

Ghost of Disney: He's not any kind of consumer, Eisner. He's a geek.

Eisner: A geek?!

GoD: What's the matter, Eisner? You look nervous.

Eisner: Geeks... well, I mean... geeks wrote us. A geek even wrote you!

GoD: No one geek wrote me! I'm worth millions of their geek-years!

Tron?

[cr@ckwhore]

I thought Bill Gates created tron and troff ... OH... sorry, I'm thinking of GWBASIC again.

jesus christ!

[lingqi]

...I kept playing through post-production for six months and my final score [for BattleZone] was somewhere around five million...

by the monitor's "radiation king" standards back then -- that's 5 inches of hairline you won't be getting back. we will just leave alone the effects on the cornea and skin cancer and the coughwastedtimecough...

Re:The bit wasn't a bit!

[dillon_rinker]

Possible answers...
- It was a quantum bit. It had no state until you observed it.
- It had five states: blank, "YES", "NO", "YESYESYESYESYES", and "NONONONONO"
- It was a beta version of the magic eight ball

Re:The Dreams of a boy...

[Anonymous Coward]

Mmm hmmm. No doubt the motorcycle would have allowed you to "rescue" your mother from the perverse sexual depredations that your father continually subjected her to.

Re:Tron 2?

[Skirwan]

Why do we need a sequel?

Scene: Marketer's bedroom, night.

Marketer, formerly fast asleep, sits bolt upright with a look of sheer amazement on his face. The sleepiness drops from his face as he slowly turns his head upwards, as if thanking God himself for the incredible inspiration.

Marketer: Tron... Two Point Oh! It's like 'Tron Two', but like a computer! Dear God, am I a genius! This movie must be made!

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Damn the Emperor!