The original Tron is one of the oldest movies that veers in the direction of the gaming medium. Games, however, are looked at in a different light by Hollywood, if you ask Tron’s creator, Steve Lisberger, who came up with the idea from Tron over 28 years ago.

“I like the fact that the games in some ways are a visual and a narrative test bed for Hollywood, where some of the more far-out ideas can be experimented with on a somewhat smaller scale than having to ratchet them all the way up to a film like Tron: Legacy,” Lisberger said. “I think that’s a good relationship between games and films.”

Of course, in an ideal world, both the game and movie for a particular property will help to cross-promote both mediums. “Games and movies are very different experiences and it’s great to have one leverage the other into the home theater environment. I think there’s room for both and I can’t wait to play the Tron game in 3D myself,” said Tron: Legacy director Joe Kosinski about Disney’s Tron: Evolution game.

Source: Disney