is a 2010 American science fiction film produced by Walt Disney Pictures, released on December 16, 2010. It is a sequel to the 1982 film Tron. Joseph Kosinski makes his feature film directorial debut with Tron: Legacy, while the previous film's director, Steven Lisberger, returns as a producer. Jeff Bridges reprises his roles as Kevin Flynn and Clu, while Bruce Boxleitner reprises his roles as Alan Bradley and Tron. Garrett Hedlund portrays Flynn's now-adult son, Sam.The other cast members include Olivia Wilde, Beau Garrett, and Michael Sheen.
Synopsis
For twenty years, Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) is haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his father Kevin (Jeff Bridges), an innovative software programmer and former CEO of ENCOM International. During a board of directors meeting before the launch of the 12th version of ENCOM's operating system, Sam breaks into company headquarters and leaks the OS to the public for free while also sabotaging the launch with a video of his pet dog. He is arrested and later released by the police. Alan Bradley (Bruce Boxleitner), Kevin's friend and now an executive consultant to ENCOM, goes to Sam's home and suggests he investigate a mysterious page that originated from a number at Flynn's abandoned arcade, one that has long been disconnected. While exploring the arcade, Sam discovers a hidden passage leading to a computer lab beneath the arcade. As he attempts to recreate what his father was doing by calling up the command logs and reissuing the last command entered, he activates a digitizing laser which transports him to The Grid, a virtual domain existing inside the computer system.
Sam is quickly captured by sentinel programs and is selected to compete in the Gladiatorial Games (GGs). He defeats his first two opponents, but when he attempts to escape he is pitted against Rinzler, a master of the GGs, who subdues Sam and finds out that Sam is not a program, but a user. Sam is taken to the Grid's leader, Clu (Jeff Bridges), whom Sam initially mistakes for his father. Clu forces Sam into a Light Cycle match, and Sam is nearly killed before Clu's Light Cycle is destroyed by a mysterious newcomer, Quorra (Olivia Wilde). Quorra takes Sam "Off-Grid" to Kevin Flynn's hideout. Reunited, Kevin explains to Sam that he created the Grid with assistance from Clu and Bradley's program, Tron.
Not long after, "Isomorphic Algorithms" (ISOs) manifested out of the system, entities with the potential to unlock mysteries in almost every field of Science and Philosophy. Clu, who was coded to create a perfect system, saw the ISOs as imperfect beings, betrayed Kevin, apparently de-rezzed Tron, and seized control of the Grid. He then systematically eliminated all ISOs. Kevin meanwhile is forced into hiding and cannot reach the portal back to the real world before it closes. Kevin then tells Sam that it was Clu who sent the page as a trap, luring Sam into the Grid in the hopes of forcing Kevin out of hiding to help his son travel back to the real world. Sam proposes that he and his father escape back to the real world through the portal Sam opened when he was transported to the Grid, but Kevin, despite being trapped on the Grid for 20 years, refuses to leave, revealing that if he were to be captured by Clu it would be possible for Clu to escape into the real world using Kevin's Identity Disc. Sam wonders why Kevin can't just use his power as the Creator to destroy Clu, but Quorra reveals that Kevin can choose to "reintegrate" with Clu at any time, but the process would destroy them both.
Upset at both the idea of losing his father again and being stuck in the Grid, Sam retreats to his room. Seeing how determined Sam is to go back, Quorra comes to him and tells him about Zuse, whom she believes may be able to provide safe passage out of the Grid, and how to find him. While searching for Zuse, Sam meets Gem (Beau Garrett), one of the Sirens who armed him for the games. She tells him that she can lead him to the person he needs to find and takes him to the "End of Line Club", run by Castor (Michael Sheen), who is later revealed to be Zuse. But rather than assisting Sam's escape, Zuse betrays him to Clu's forces, who arrive and launch an assault on the club. Kevin and Quorra arrive to rescue Sam, and in the ensuing fight Quorra is severely injured when her arm is derezzed. The three manage to escape, but Kevin's disc is seized by the Black Guards. Castor offers the disc to Clu in return for control of the city, but Clu takes the disc and destroys the club, killing Castor and Gem. Meanwhile, Sam, Kevin, and Quorra escape aboard a "Solar Sailer" train heading towards the portal. As Kevin attempts to repair Quorra's code, Sam finds out she is the very last ISO, and that Kevin disguised her as a Basic in order to protect her true identity. After she "reboots", Quorra engages Sam in a conversation which reveals her curiosity about the real world she gleaned from Kevin's library, a sunrise in particular.
The three unexpectedly arrive at a station within a Regulator, a massive warship, where Clu addresses an army of programs that have been "rectified", or reprogrammed. Clu reveals his plans to use Kevin's disc as a means to send himself and his army into the real world in order to "perfect" it in their own image. They again encounter Rinzler, and Quorra chooses to sacrifice herself as a distraction so that Sam and Kevin may safely reach the portal - in Kevin's words "taking herself out of the equation" - and gives her identity disc to Kevin. Watching Quorra's capture, Kevin observes Rinzler and immediately recognizes him as Tron, now reprogrammed to serve Clu. Kevin and Sam split up; Kevin secures transportation off of the Regulator, while Sam goes to regain Flynn's disc and save Quorra. The three escape and head for the portal. Clu sees them escape, derezzes his right-hand program, Jarvis, for failing to stop Sam, and with Rinzler gives pursuit in “lightjets”. Sam, Kevin and Quorra manage to destroy all of their pursuers expect for Clu and Rinzler. As Rinzler closes in on the fleeing ship, he makes eye contact with Kevin, and experiences a flashback of himself (as Tron) telling Kevin to run and save himself. Immediately rediscovering his true identity and purpose as Tron, Rinzler declares that he "fights for the users" and uses his lightjet to ram Clu. As the two plummet, Clu forcibly commandeers Rinzler’s spare lightjet, leaving his former lieutenant to fall into the sea of simulation below. As Rinzler sinks, his glow shifts from red to white, completing his reawakening as Tron, the free program.
Sam, Kevin and Quorra arrive at the portal, but Clu has managed to arrive first. Kevin attempts to reconcile with Clu and make amends, but he is cast aside, and Clu again seizes the "master key." But Clu discovers that the disc he holds is actually Quorra’s, and that she has Kevin's disc. Enraged, Clu desperately tries to reach the portal to stop them. As Sam and Quorra stand within the light of the portal, Kevin buys them time by reintegrating with Clu. The two merge and destroy each other, obliterating the Grid as Sam and Quorra transport through the portal into the real world. Back in Flynn’s Arcade, Sam downloads a backup of the Grid onto a portable device and contacts Alan Bradley, informing him that he will start working at ENCOM on Monday, and as the controlling interest shareholder of the company, he will name Bradley chairman of the board. Sam leaves the arcade and meets up with Quorra, whom he takes to watch the sunrise for the first time in her life. The ultimate fate of Tron remains unknown.
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