Not at all. The ideas were developed subtly/incompletely/fuzzily (depends on one’s viewpoint) to keep the film within Disney parameters. Also, T:L was not like the original, which was Reaganesque in its anti-Communist/anti-Soviet sensibilities. Master Control Program bad!!!
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… unless Lisberger - not a conservative by any means, as far as I know - saw the MCP within the own country lines.
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Could be. TRON has always struck me as a quintessential 1980s movie.
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It will be interesting or disheartening to see how the studios movies will influence the way villains and their schemes are coded in the next four years. Right now, everybody is kissing the ring.
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Creepy isn’t it? EON/Amazon may have the most difficulty in settling on a villain, never mind an actor for Bond or a director.
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As a German my generation grew up with the question to the older generation: how could you allow these things to happen?
These days, we are witnessing how easy it is.
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I doubt we’ll have to worry about it. There probably won’t be a Bond film in the next 4 years.
Now, we may have to worry about how they’ll go about coming up with a villain for Q or Moneypenny to go up against when they take over the franchise with the next film.
A reminder people did not want, but needed. I tell younger friends and colleagues: “Do you see how quickly corporate allies changed sides?”
Visconti captired it beautifully in IL GATTOPARDO:
We were the leopards, the lions, those who take our place will be jackals and sheep, and the whole lot of us - leopards, lions, jackals and sheep - will continue to think ourselves the salt of the earth.
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I want this to be Phase I of the Boublil Schoenberg Cinematic Universe* (BSCU)
*I want to point out that when I type “cinematic” on my iPhone it auto suggests “universe” as the next word. That’s scary.
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Next up: LITTLE MOBY: RISE OF THE DICK
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Also in the works:
AHAB: BEFORE THE PEGLEG
THE HOUSE OF FOUR GABLES
FAUST, TEENAGE SORCEROR
THE MEDIOCRE GATZ
A STORY OF ONE VILLAGE
SNAG-11
MINOR HOPES
CONSTANCE’'S SCHOOLGIRL CRUSH
HOWIE’S BEGINNING
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Isn’t this Shakespeare dude ripe for IP-ripping? All of his „scripts“ with all their games of thrones could be modernized and interconnect. Also, he was like George Lucas, right? Starting with Henry V? We should tell the story of how Henry I became 5!
Pitch Meeting between two AIs, sent by their studio „heads“.
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Let’s keep the list going.
Mildred Ratched, Student Nurse
Young Norman Bates: Weekends With Momma
HAL 2000 (or “The ChatGPT Story”)
Tony Montana: Cuban Kindergartener (tagline: “ALL his friends were little…”)
How Harry Got Dirty
L’il Hannibal and the Secret in the Lunchbox
Rick and Elsa on Spring Break
The possibilities are endless.
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Apocalypse Then: The Korea Years
Young Dr.Strangelove - On his way to the war room
The First Love Story: This time it does mean saying sorry!
Jawsey: How I ate your mother
Uptight Rider - Oh, the golden times without our long haired children
All our godfathers: Schoolyard bullies unite!
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Brought by the Wind
Early Morning
The Woman Who Gave Birth to Liberty Vallance
Olympic
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Don’t forget: THE WOMAN WHO GAVE BIRTH TO LIBERTY VALLENCE’S MOTHER
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It‘s a trilogy!
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The pre-sequels of TENET, SATOR/ROTAS and AREPO/OPERA have an enormous potential for confusing the hell out of people 
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