Tron: Legacy 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.
Plot
In 1989 (seven years after the first film), Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), an innovative software engineer and the CEO of ENCOM International, tells his seven-year-old son Sam (Owen Best) about a new "digital frontier" he has created called The Grid, a virtual domain existing inside his own private servers (hidden in a lab at his arcade). Kevin tells Sam of the two programs helping him, Tron and Clu; Tron keeps The Grid secure, while Clu is tasked with creating the perfect system. One night, Kevin departs for his office to continue working on the development of his creation, when he mysteriously vanishes.
Twenty years later, Sam (Garrett Hedlund) is haunted by Kevin's disappearance. After sabotaging ENCOM's operations in order to protect his father's legacy, Sam is visited by his father's friend and ENCOM executive Alan Bradley (Bruce Boxleitner). Bradley had received a pageoriginating from a supposedly disconnected phone line at Flynn's long-shuttered arcade, and he urges Sam to investigate it, convinced that doing so may lead to information regarding Kevin's whereabouts. While exploring the arcade, Sam discovers a concealed door leading to a computer laboratory in the basement. Attempting to discover what his father was doing by calling up the command logs and reissuing the last command entered, Sam unintentionally activates a digitizing laser which transports him to The Grid.
Sam is captured and taken to the game arena, where he receives combat armor and an identity disc which he can also use for battle from four Sirens, the arena's female armorers. When Sam attempts to escape, he is pitted against Rinzler, a master of the games. When Rinzler notices that Sam bleeds, he realizes Sam is not a program, but a User. Sam is taken before Clu, who Sam initially believes is his father. Clu forces Sam into a Light Cycle match with several other programs, and Sam is nearly killed before Quorra (Olivia Wilde) rescues him, taking him to a distant hideout in the Off-Grid Outlands. There, he is reunited with his father Kevin. It is revealed that, during The Grid's development, so-called "isomorphic algorithms" (ISOs) manifested out with the potential to unlock mysteries in almost every field of science, religion, and medicine. Clu saw the ISOs as imperfect beings, and following his programming to create a perfect system, betrayed both Kevin and Tron and seized control over The Grid. He then systematically eliminated all ISOs. It is further revealed that the portal to the real world, which takes massive amounts of energy to sustain, cannot remain open indefinitely and ultimately closes; it can only be opened from the outside.
Quorra discloses that Kevin can choose to "re-integrate" with Clu at any time, but that the process would destroy them both. Seeing how determined Sam is to go back so that he could delete Clu on the outside, Quorra tells him about a program called Zuse, who she believes may be able to provide safe passage out of The Grid. Using Flynn’s Light Cycle to travel back onto The Grid, Sam employs a decoy to occupy Clu's troops while he infiltrates the End of Line Club. While searching for Zuse, Sam encounters Gem (Beau Garrett), one of the Sirens from the arena, who tells Sam she can lead him to the person he needs to find. At the End of Line Club, the club owner Castor (Michael Sheen) is revealed to be Zuse, but instead of assisting Sam, he turns against him. Kevin and Quorra arrive to rescue Sam, and Quorra is severely injured when her arm is derezzed. They escape, but not before Kevin's disc is seized by Castor. Kevin, Sam and Quorra are nearly killed when the elevator they are on plummets from the End of Line club, but Kevin uses his administrative powers as The Grid's creator to bring the lift to a gentle stop. Castor bargains with Clu to be given dominion over the city in exchange for Kevin’s disc, but Clu simply takes the disc and destroys the club, derezzing Castor and Gem with it.
Stowing away on a Solar Sailer, a transport ship, Kevin heals Quorra, now revealed to be the last surviving ISO, and brings her back online. As the ship approaches the portal, Sam and Quorra have a conversation in which Quorra expresses her desire to witness the real world, particularly the sun. All ultimately arrive at a station aboard a massive warship. While trying to avoid detection, the trio encounters Rinzler. Entrusting her identity disc to Kevin, Quorra attempts to sacrifice herself as a distraction so that Sam and Kevin may safely reach the portal, but she is instead taken hostage by Rinzler. Watching Quorra's capture, Kevin sees Rinzler for the first time and immediately recognizes him as Tron, apparently reprogrammed into servitude under Clu. Meanwhile, Clu addresses his troops, revealing his plans to use Kevin's disc as a means of sending himself and his army into the real world in order to "perfect" it. The address is chilling for two reasons: one is its eerie similarity to a speech Flynn gives in the real world at an ENCOM event, in flashback at the start of the film - the other is that while the words are similar, Clu's motives are polar opposite to those of his creator. While Kevin commandeers transport off of the warship, Sam saves Quorra and retakes Kevin's disc.
The trio again heads for the portal, pursued by Clu, his guards and Rinzler using Light Jets. Between Quorra's evasive flying and Sam manning a rear turret, they manage to shoot down most of their opponents, leaving only Clu and Rinzler. As the flyer takes damage, Rinzler makes eye contact with Kevin, suddenly rousing memories of his original identity as Tron. Declaring, "I fight for the Users," Rinzler deliberately collides with Clu's Light-Jet. As Clu and Rinzler plummet towards the digital Sea of Simulation, Clu manages to steal Rinzler's spare Light Jet and continues his pursuit. After plunging into the sea, the red illumination on Rinzler's armor changes to his original white, signifying the regaining of his identity as Tron.
As Sam, Kevin and Quorra reach the portal, their progress is hindered by Clu, who arrived before them. Clu again seizes Kevin's identity disc, but is horrified to discover that it is actually Quorra's disc. Kevin uses his powers to prevent Clu from reaching Sam and Quorra in the portal, ultimately sacrificing himself by re-integrating with Clu. The two merge and explode as Sam and Quorra transport through the portal back to the real world.
Back in the basement of Flynn's arcade, Sam saves the data from his father's disc on a flash drive he places around his neck and meets Alan upstairs. Sam tells Alan that he will start working at ENCOM on Monday, and as the controlling interest shareholder of ENCOM, he will name Alan chairman of the board. Sam finds Quorra outside, and she inquires as to what they will do now. Sam then takes her on a ride on his motorcycle, showing her the real world she had longed to see.
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