Update:

Original story as follows:

The original 1982 TRON film boasted groundbreaking visuals and offered a prophetic peek at the digital and data-driven era to come. The film, its TV and movie sequels, and the video games it spawned have earned a cultish reverence within tech and gamer culture, but the franchise has been dormant of late with no active projects known to be in development.

Now, a recent spate of Internet sightings that purport to be leaked assets for a new TRON film or game has piqued the interest of the TRON fan community. Reports initially surfaced several weeks ago of posts of what appeared to be concept art, screenshots, and sound files from an unknown TRON game. According to a post on Reddit’s r/Tron, these subsequently disappeared or were deleted, only to reappear shortly thereafter on Tumblr and other sites — which in turn disappeared or were deleted again.

The most complete collection of the mysterious TRON assets that hasn’t been scrubbed from the Internet currently remains accessible on the TRON 2.0 News blog site, several of which we’re featuring right here.

Could the assets be from a new TRON film?

Could the assets be from a new TRON game?

Admittedly, the images look official, but they could simply be leftover assets from a previously released or canceled TRON vehicle. The quality of the documents, however, immediately bring two questions to mind:Disney’s May announcement confirmed that the third TRON film is officially dead. While that doesn’t mean that there will never be another TRON film, it seems doubtful that a new movie is imminent.The TRON 2.0 blog’s conjecture is that the assets might be from Disney Interactive’s rumored TRON: Escape game, but Disney has never officially confirmed development or provided a release date for the title. The flimsiest thing to a confirmation of the game’s existence came from reports of a Brazilian Advisory Rating System review

A closer examination of the images reveals some interesting and puzzling details: About half the images are tagged with a logo for ENCOM, the fictional corporation from the films. There are also dates, control numbers, and other information burned into the images, including “REQUESTOR: kflynn” and “DIGITENG: bradley”, two characters from the films. The images are also dated for the summer and fall of 1985 and feature the iconic TRON light cycle and characters in TRON grid-garb, but not in forms we’ve seen before.

The images ultimately raise more questions than provide answers. They appear to be official, but for what project? The quality of the design documents and concept art could be associated with a film. The inclusion of screenshots, however, increase the likelihood that the images are from an app or game.

We’ll keep scouring the web for additional info and dutifully report it if and when it appears — and perhaps disappears again.

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