Not much has been heard about Tron 3 recently (and with the financial disaster that is John Carter hanging over Disney, they may decide against taking a punt on the movie at all), but it appears the film is still in the works, as Tron: Legacy screenwriters Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis have been talking about the next installment at WonderCon.
When asked whether Kevin Flynn and Tron will return in the Untitled Tron Legacy Sequel – which if you’ve seen Legacy wouldn’t initially seem likely – io9 reports Horowitz and Kitsis cryptically said, “I would say the definition of life and death in the digital realm… will be explored in the sequel!”
David DiGilio is writing the Tron: Legacy sequel, but Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis are very involved and set co-produce the movie (they stepped aside on writing the screenplay due to their production schedule on the TV series Once Upon a Time, which they co-created).
As to whether Tron 3 will actually get made, Kitsis says, “David DiGilio is writing it. Joe (Kosinski) is right now shooting Horizons but we’ve had a lot of meetings and conversations and we’ve seen the first draft of the Tron sequel. Sometimes movies don’t happen as quickly as you want. Our hope is to get something going sooner [rather than later].”