‘Playboy’ approached Disney for a nude photo shoot for one of its classic films

Forty-three years ago today, the film Tron Hit the theaters – which makes far above the age of 18, it is therefore not inappropriate to talk about it in the context of A (check the notes) Set of propagation of the ribbed photo.

Tron was a massively influential film that delighted the IT and hardcore animation when it was initial, but it escaped the consumer public. Indeed, the 1982 film was a bit of a notorious failure, barely $ 50 million in global brushes than Walt Disney Company has put in its budget. In a case of life reflecting art, however, linked video games were created by the film – which, in some respects, concerns the hazard Video games – were a smash.

Even if Tron was revolutionary in its look – mixing the first images generated by computer with animation and live action – the studio had trouble marketing it. Was it for children? For adolescents? For advanced science fiction lovers? Without a good explanation, the film looked like a bunch of strange blue guys who settled on the screen.

Tron was also produced during a period when Disney did not follow time. While other studios launched huge expenses for television advertisements and outdoor advertisements, the studio chief, the former E. Cardon Walker school, was belief that a Disney product should not rise with advertisementAnd he was reluctant to spend a penny. (He also considered that Disney should do nothing other than pure Kiddie Entertainment, and a film like Tron was outside their field.)

While the subordinates rushed to find a way to pass the word from their new production, they were approached with an idea that even the most adventurous Disney executive would probably close. For a hot minute, there was talk of a racy pictorial Playboy called “the girls of Tron. “”

Filming – which has never exceeded the pitch scene – involved naked models which would have circuit cards printed strategically placed around their body to prevent the sons of readers from really getting rid. Disney finally transmitted the idea.

As for whom these “girls of Tron“” Would have remained clear. There is roughly a single woman with a speaking role throughout the film, played by Cindy Morgan, previously considered as Lacey SubaL Caddyhack.

Well, to be fair, Morgan played two characters. In the “real world”, she is the Lora Baines, a brilliant scientist working on teleport lasers. Inside the kingdom of the computer, it is a program called Yori which … well … this film was Made in 1982. Its main function seems only to wear a tight and shiny and worried costume.

For a long time there are rumors on the Internet that Debbie Harry of the Blondie group, then massively popular, was in consideration for the role. (A recent interview she gave is a bit vague on details; she definitively confirms that something was happening, but, alas, it’s been a long time, so cannot become too specific.) In 1983, Harry appears in David Cronenberg’s VideodromeAnother beloved film on technology of the time, but is nowhere close A Disney film.

The punchline to all this is that when, a generation later, Disney Greenlit (or, we assume, blocks) a series of Tron calledTron: inheritanceThey were happy to go to bed with Playboy.

In 2010, the magazine was essentially family entertainment compared to the online coal tidal wave, so an illustrated peak of half-naked cybergals did not seem so risky. We are not lining up here, but if you do a search, it’s quite easy to find.

We can only guess what type of marketing shenanigans that we will see for the third entry of Jared Leto in October in the series, Tron: Ares.

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