Rev up your Light Cycles for another race to the MCP Cone. The Hollywood Reporter brings word today that Disney is developing a new Tron movie and is sewing up a deal with commercial director Joseph Kosinski. Steven Lisberger, co-writer and director of the 1982 Tron, is producing the pic with Live Planet’s Sean Bailey. The script is being penned by Eddie Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, writers on the hit ABC series Lost.
The first Tron starred Jeff Bridges as a video game programmer who gets sucked into an arcade machine and has to fight his way through a series of gladiatorial competitions in order to find his way out. The film garnered Oscar nominations for costume design and sound, but it is perhaps best known for its groundbreaking use of computer animation and digital environments. In a case of art imitating art, the property was later made into a hit video game by Bally Midway.
Having directed a number of CG-infused Nike, Apple and Nintendo commercial spots for David Fincher’s Anonymous Content, Kosinski was recently hired to helm Warner Bros.’s remake of ’70s sci-fi classic Logan’s Run, to which Superman Returns director Bryan Singer was once attached. Like Lisberger before him, Kosinski is reportedly putting together a test sequence to sell Disney on a new vision for the Tron franchise. Whereas Lisberger got the job by shooting a demo of a disc battle back in the ’80s, Kosinski is focusing on a Light Cycle sequence.
