The grid will keep expanding and explaining...
(The animated series will fill in the blanks, as co-writer Eddie Kitsis told Box Office Magazine when asked if the animated series will be part of the continuity.)
"Absolutely. And we're treating it very seriously. This animated show will take place from when Flynn is in a safe house. It's from when Clu takes over the grid to before when Sam comes in. So if you were wondering what was the grid like before that, then watch the show."
(So are you wondering.?)
"There's a 10-part micro series that will premiere next summer that Eddie and I wrote," says screen writer Adam Horowitz, "And we've also worked on a couple of episodes with the series itself. We've hired an incredible team; we've got a guy running the show named Charlie Bean who is an amazing director."
(As to who's voices will be starring in this animated series, Adam Horowitz hesitates to say, but still he drops some names.)
"We hesitate to tell too much just yet, but it will fill in the blanks of some things, and also explore some new areas as well," he revealed. "Bruce Boxleitner is in it, Elijah Wood, Linda Moore, Paul Reubens, Lance Henriksen. I mean, we've got a really cool group of actors."
(Aside from the obvious cha-ching reasons for why a Tron animated series is on its way, screen writer Eddie Kitsis explains further.)
"It's like over the years of developing this movie, we developed all these mythologies and all these back stories and all little tangential things," Kitsis said. "We treat 'Tron' very, very seriously and as writers we try to have a reason and a world for everything and not all of it gets to be shown because in this particular movie, we only had two hours."
So all you Tron fans get ready to plug in once again..