A rumor was running wild a couple months ago suggesting Disney was planning to sneak a Tron 3 announcement trailer on the Blu-ray Disc and DVD release on Tron: Legacy coming on April 5. It was never confirmed and now new evidence suggest it was never legit, either.
I’ve just looked over the complete bonus features listing for Tron: Legacy and there is no mention of a Tron 3 teaser. This rumor now hangs by a thread that Disney packaged the teaser as an Easter Egg. That, frankly, would equate to idiotic marketing of a major movie announcement.
Perhaps whoever started this rumor in the first place did get an early look at planned bonus features and mistook a different kind of preview for Tron 3. Packaged on every version of the Blu-ray and DVD of Tron: Legacy will be a first-look at Tron: Uprising, the upcoming animated series that will air on Disney XD sometime in the summer 2012. It’s specifically called a “first look” so I’d expect to see either some character or design art or, if we’re lucky, some early animation.
Little is known about the plot of Tron: Uprising but it has a pretty recognizable voice cast attached including Elijah Wood, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Mandy Moore, Paul Reubens, Lance Henriksen and Tron himself, Bruce Boxleitner.
Check back a little later for the complete bonus features rundown for Tron: Legacy on Blu-ray.
