Steven Lisberger Where Are You?

If you haven't seen it, Tron is a movie about a computer programmer who gets sucked into the inner world of computers where he meets some of the programs he created (yes, they are people)and teams up with them to take on the Master Control program (the main villain) in order to escape. Almost the entire world inside the computer is done in CGI (Computer Generated Imagery), and is pretty well-done. That may not sound impressive by today's standards, but this movie was made in 1982 and such a feat had never been done before. It wasn't a bad movie otherwise either.

I was talking to a friend tonight about various topics, including movies we had seen recently. He mentioned that he had watched Tron with another guy and had really liked it, so they decided to look at what other movies the director had done. Surely the director of such a ground-breaking movie would have quite a list of films on his resume. Here it is from IMDB:

Animalympics - 1980
Tron - 1982
Hot Pursuit - 1987
Slipstream - 1989

After that? Nothing. He disappears from the radar. Well, ok, he apparently came back to help Buena Vista make Tron 2.0, a computer game that came out in 2003. But otherwise, his film career drops off the map.

So we figured that Wikipedia, tireless font of knowledge that it is, would have a good comprehensive article on what happened to this man. Here it is. Here is another article on him from elsewhere on the 'Net. That's about the most we were able to find on him. If you can't be botehred to link the links, let me put it this way: We didn't find squat.

He just disappeared. He made a spectacular revolutionary film and then just disappeared. No one seems to know where he went. Did he retire from filmmaking and take a crappy desk job somewhere? Did he go on safari in the African Serengetti and stay there? Did he get abducted by aliens? Who knows? It's a mystery.

Steven Lisberger, if you are reading this, please let somebody know where you are. It's getting late and we're worried.