21 Facts About Tron

Tron is a 1982 American science fiction action-adventure film written and directed by Steven Lisberger from a story by Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird.

Tron received nominations for Best Costume Design and Best Sound at the 55th Academy Awards, but was not nominated in the Best Visual Effects category.

Tron spawned multiple video games, and as it became a cult film, a multimedia franchise including comic books.

Inspiration for Tron occurred in 1976 when Steven Lisberger, then an animator of drawings with his own studio, looked at a sample reel from a computer firm called MAGI and saw Pong for the first time.

Tron was immediately fascinated by video games and wanted to do a film incorporating them.

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The prototype Tron was bearded and resembled the Cylon Centurions from the 1978 TV series Battlestar Galactica.

Also, Tron was armed with two "exploding discs", as Lisberger described them on the 2-Disc DVD edition.

Tron was frustrated by the clique-like nature of computers and video games and wanted to create a film that would open this world up to everyone.

Tron contacted Lisberger and convinced him to use him as an adviser on the movie, then persuaded him to use real CGI instead of just hand-animation.

Tron gave her and Lisberger the same tour of Xerox PARC that famously inspired the Apple Macintosh, and their many conversations inspired her to include many computer science references.

Tron met with Richard Taylor, a representative, and they began talking about using live-action photography with back-lit animation in such a way that it could be integrated with computer graphics.

Tron was one of the first films to make extensive use of any form of computer animation, and it is celebrated as a milestone in the industry though only fifteen to twenty minutes of such animation were used, mostly scenes that show digital "terrain" or patterns, or include vehicles such as light-cycles, tanks and ships.

At the time, Tron was the only film to have scenes filmed inside this lab.

Tron was released on July 9, 1982, in 1, 091 theaters in the United States and Canada grossing USD $4 million on its opening weekend.

Tron was featured in Siskel and Ebert's video pick of the week in 1993.

Colin Greenland reviewed the home video release of Tron for Imagine magazine, and stated that "three plucky young programmers descend into the micro-world to battle the Master Control Program with a sacred frisbee.

Tron developed into a cult film and was ranked as 13th in a 2010 list of the top 20 cult films published by The Boston Globe.

Novelization of Tron was released in 1982, written by American science fiction novelist Brian Daley.

Tron made its television debut as part of the Disney Channel's first day of programming, on April 18, 1983, at 7:00PM.

Tron was originally released on VHS, Betamax, LaserDisc, and CED Videodisc in 1983.

Tron was featured in a 5-Disc Blu-ray Combo with the 3D copy of Tron: Legacy.