After a stellar showing in theaters, science-fiction movie Tron: Legacy arrived on DVD and Blu-ray in lots of variations on April 5, 2011.
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment used Tron: Legacy to encourage people to upgrade to Blu-ray 3D, offering three versions in that format alone. Earlier, Disney had promised to release both Tron: Legacy and Tangled on Blu-ray 3D the same day the movies come to regular Blu-ray and DVD. Tangled was released on Blu-ray, DVD and Blu-ray 3D on March 29, 2011.
Tron: Legacy was released on disc in three Blu-ray 3D versions:
- a four-disc combo pack
with Blu-ray 3D/Blu-ray/DVD and a downloadable digital copy, priced at $49.99
- a five-disc combo pack
with Tron: Legacy Blu-ray 3D/Blu-ray/DVD/downloadable digital copy and Tron: The Original Classic Special Edition Blu-ray, priced at $79.99
- and Tron: Legacy Limited Edition
, the five-disc set in special packaging and a collectible identity disc, priced at $99.99.
Tron: Legacy Limited Edition
The film also was released on DVD
The DVD includes these special features:
- “First Look at Tron: Uprising,” the Disney XD animated series
- “Visualizing Tron” about how the filmmakers brought to life the world inside the Grid
- “Installing the cast” in which the stars talk about their experience in making the movie
All the Blu-ray versions have those extras plus these:
- “The Next Day: Flynn Lives Revealed” interactive bonus piece about what happens immediately following the end of the movie
- “Tron: Disney Second Screen,” which syncs up the movie to an iPad or computer, watch the movie for more exclusive interactive elements
- “Launching the Legacy” about how the writers and filmmakers created the fiction in the film
- “Disc Roars” with director Joseph Kosinski using the raucous crowd at Comic-Con to record actual ADR for the disc game stadium crowd
- music video “Derezzed” written, produced, and performed by Daft Punk
Tron: Legacy also is available on video-on-demand with these special features:
- “Speed of Light”
- “Disc Roars” with director Joseph Kosinski using the raucous crowd at Comic-Con to record actual ADR for the disc game stadium crowd
- “First Look at Tron: Uprising,” the Disney XD animated series
- “Visualizing Tron” about how the filmmakers brought to life the world inside the Grid
- “Installing the cast” in which the stars of Tron: Legacy talk about their experience in making the movie
- “Launching the Legacy” about how the writers and filmmakers created the fiction in the film
The Tron: The Original Classic Special Edition Blu-ray
The original Tron also was released in a two-DVD set ($29.99) with these special features:
- “The Tron Phenomenon”
- commentary
- “The Making of Tron“
- “Development”
- “Digital Imagery”
- “Music”
- “Publicity”
- deleted scenes
- “Design”
- “Storyboarding”
- and galleries.
The Blu-ray/DVD combo pack includes all these plus a “Photo Tronology.”
And, the original Tron is available on video-on-demand with these special features”
- “Computers Are People Too”
- “Digital Imagery of Tron“
- and “Beyond Tron.”
Starring Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart), Garrett Hedlund (Country Strong) and Olivia Wilde (The Next Three Days), Tron: Legacy grossed $163.2 million in theaters.
The PG-rated film continues the story from the original movie about computer programmer Sam Flynn’s (Bridges) discovery of a world inside computers. In Legacy, Flynn has been missing for years and his 27-year-old son (Hedlund) finds himself pulled into the same world and having to battle fierce programs and gladiatorial games to save himself, his father and the real world.
Here’s the movie’s trailer:
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Actually a new DVD Special Edition of the original TRON movies is indeed being released as well – http://www.amazon.com/Tron-Original-Classic-Jeff-Bridges/dp/B004KPLVV8/
Disney is covering all of the basis… EXCEPT not having the purchase option for a 2D Blu-ray Combo of TRON and TRON: LEGACY together (you have to buy both films separately on Blu-ray, or buy the expensive 5-Disc Combo Pack).