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Is it a massive cult following? I think there’s just a loud but relatively small community online that has never translated to making any Tron film successful.
Massive cult following..you mean like a majority of people who like and know about TRON? I'd say no
Well when you play fast and loose with the definition of "successful" you can make this same argument about any film. In this instance you're choosing to narrowly define success as "box office revenue," but we all know plenty of films that flopped in theaters and blew up big after the fact. This film flopping in 2025 can easily be attributed to the terrible lead they chose who has ruined film after film in recent memory, but that has no bearing on how people feel about the franchise as a whole.
Successfully for a movie usually means financial success in addition to critical and audience reviews. None of the Tron movies are successful. All of them have flopped financially.
The only reason the two sequels exist is because Disney is creatively bankrupt. Their trash live-action remakes of all their animated movies have more audience than the Tron sequels.