In 'Tron' Reboot, A Dubious Legacy Re-Digitized

Computer Trouble: After growing up without his father, Sam (Garrett Hedlund) falls into a digital world, where he finds his dad and meets Quorra (Olivia Wilde). Together, they embark on a dangerous journey of escape. Rated PG for sequences of sci-fi action violence and brief mild language. When Disney announced it was planning to make a sequel to Tron, its 1982 imagining of a dystopia existing in our computers' circuit boards, the news was greeted enthusiastically by that film's small and adoring cult. But for many, the move was a head-scratcher: a $200 million budget handed to a director, Joseph Kosinski, who'd only ever worked in commercials, to make a 28-years-later sequel to a visually groundbreaking (but narratively dull) sci-fi flick that was only a modest success in its original release.