TRON: The Next Day is a 10-minute short film, released on the Blu-ray edition of TRON: Legacy in April 2011, that fills in the backstory between TRON and TRON: Legacy. It features scenes from the real-world Flynn Lives ARG as well as purely in-universe content. The short film also reveals the full chronology of the Flynn Lives Organization, naming Roy Kleinberg as the secret figure heading up the operation and Alan Bradley as its financial backer. Some scenes in the short also set up the story for a potential third film.
Direction
Seamlessly blends ARG footage with canon narrative.
Writing
Retroactively makes Legacy's plot actually coherent.
Acting
Boxleitner carries decades of Alan's quiet devotion.
Director
Kurt Mattila
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Flynn Lives ARG ran for two years before Legacy's release, with real-world dead drops and hacked websites that this short retroactively canonizes.
David Warner's voice cameo as Dillinger/MCP was his final performance in the franchise before his death in 2022—making this the last time the original villain spoke.
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