5 Sequels That Came Out 20 Years Later (And Were Actually Worth The Wait)
3. Tron: Legacy
The Previous Movie: TRON (1982)
The Belated Sequel: Tron: Legacy (2010)
The Gap: 28 years
Whether you think Tron: Legacy
was worth the thirty year wait depends entirely on how you view the original
TRON. Legacy is a gorgeously designed, neatly shot, impeccably scored technical
achievement with a story that fluctuates back and forth from idiotic to inane.
And, taking away the thrill of seeing video games come alive in
three-dimensions, isn’t that what the first movie was too?
One of the first of the current wave of legacy-quels (late-in-the-day sequels where the characters are as obsessed with previous events as the audience and the message is about the point of the series – see Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Creed, Skyfall, Jurassic World), there’d only been incredibly niche call for a sequel to the forgotten visual effects demo noteworthy mainly for inspiring Tron Guy until Disney decided to cash-in on scant IP in 2005 and kick-started development. Quite why they went for TRON is still unclear, but it’s likely just an early case of the Mouse House’s “slap our logo on anything pre-existing” that led to the likes of John Carter and The Lone Ranger.
Still, things took off when director Joseph Kosinski came on board – he made that still-incredible Comic-Con tease that made everyone slightly giddy about the project – and people realised they’d been “waiting” decades for this. If you didn't buy into the hype that reworked opinion of the original, it was fine.