There are suddenly a lot of options for Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski. Four years ago he was directing CGI-laden commercials for popular video games properties, before his Tr2N concept video wowed Disney executives and Comic-Con geeks.
Fast forward to 2008 and he’s officially the director of Disney’s $170+ million revival of a decades-old science fiction classic, one that ultimately stopped short of $400 million worldwide. Tron: Legacy wasn’t particularly a smash hit once you tabulate all the numbers, but big enough for Disney to plan another sequel and land Kosinski plenty more high-paying jobs.
As of right now, Kosinski is lining up to direct Oblivion (also called Horizons) possibly at Universal with mega-star Tom Cruise attached to lead the bleak, post-apocalyptic story of an Earth populated by alien scavengers. Disney scooped up the pitch, which came in the form of a stylized graphic novel (images here) and eventually...
Fast forward to 2008 and he’s officially the director of Disney’s $170+ million revival of a decades-old science fiction classic, one that ultimately stopped short of $400 million worldwide. Tron: Legacy wasn’t particularly a smash hit once you tabulate all the numbers, but big enough for Disney to plan another sequel and land Kosinski plenty more high-paying jobs.
As of right now, Kosinski is lining up to direct Oblivion (also called Horizons) possibly at Universal with mega-star Tom Cruise attached to lead the bleak, post-apocalyptic story of an Earth populated by alien scavengers. Disney scooped up the pitch, which came in the form of a stylized graphic novel (images here) and eventually...
- 4/26/2011
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
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