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...story on TRON-and on the Disney studios that produced it- was written by TIME Contributor Richard Schickel. A film critic for 17 years, Schickel is also the author of 16 books, including an authoritative, independent study of Walt Disney and his organization, entitled The Disney Version...
Says Schickel: "The studio has a lot riding on TRON, and so does everybody-inside the movie business and out-who remembers the sense of the visionary possibilities of film you got from the great days of Disney, and wishes somebody would make pictures like those again...
...Angeles, Correspondent Jeff Melvoin interviewed TRON Writer-Director Steven Lisberger. They soon realized that they shared a passion for the computer games that are the creative impulse for the film. Melvoin also visited the Disney studios in Burbank, Calif., and interviewed several top company executives. He talked with Disney alumni who have gone on to make their own animated films and with Director Steven Spielberg, the creator of E. T., who acknowledges a spiritual debt to Disney. Says Melvoin: "Visiting the Disney studios was like an invitation into a childhood dream...
Reporting on the story took me into the world of magic that Walt Disney originally created, revealing something of where the wizardry had come from, and where it might be going...
...became movies; then movies became books; now there are movies that have become video games. Parker Brothers is marketing a The Empire Strikes Back cartridge; a Raiders of the Lost Ark game will be out by December; and both Mattel and Bally are launching games inspired by Tron, a Disney Studios movie due out this summer. Bally is blitzing the arcades; Mattel is shipping more than 1 million Tron cartridges to dealers; and Disney Spokeswoman Hilary Clark says, "It's only the beginning." Indeed. Atari is developing a game called Krull, based on a movie that has not even...