The "Empire Strikes Back" of the Tron Series? Director Joseph Kosinski says the follow-up to Tron: Legacy will be awesome.

Tron 3, the sequel to Tron: Legacy (and the third film in the series after the original 1982 Tron), picked up some steam last week with the announcement that screenwriter Jesse Wigutow (Peter and the Starcatchers, Eragon) had been hired to rewrite the film. And now director Joseph Kosinski, who helmed Legacy and is attached to Tron 3, is talking about his plans for the third film in the series.

“I’ve said it would have to be our Empire Strikes Back for me to come back and for me to pull the whole team back together," he tells Collider. "I think we do have that idea. We do have the idea that feels big and really blows the doors off this franchise. It’s hinted at promises of something for two movies now, for thirty years, so it’s time to deliver on that. But the script’s got to be at a level that makes it worth going back for, because it’s a lot of work to make a movie like this and it’s a multi-year project. So we’ve got our writer Jesse Wigutow on it right now writing, and fingers crossed if it all comes together, as we hope it will, there could be another Tron in the next few years, and it’s going to be awesome.”

Kosinski stays pretty quiet on specifics about the sequel in this interview, though he does say that he hopes Daft Punk will return to score the follow-up.

"When it comes to building the team up for soundtrack they would absolutely be my first call," says the helmer. "As to whether or not they would do it, it depends on what they’re doing at the time. They are very methodical in how they pick their next project, and they would only do it if they felt that they could dedicate themselves a hundred percent to that. I know they have another album coming out, I’m sure that’s going to be their next big project, which I assume is going to be followed by a massive tour. So, you know, hopefully if they’ve got the time and the creative willingness to dive back in.”

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