…Actually, to my knowledge, there doesn’t seem to be a connection other than “Disney got worried about the possibility of a movie flopping.”
And come to think of it, I’m not sure this even does have the “same energy” as the 1980 Olympics thing. They just both remind me of this constant theme my mind keeps coming back to, about how things could have happened differently with Tron if (insert different event in the past).
I am not the obsessed dimension-hopping super-antihero in the fantasy I posted, but… I could be her, in a not-so-different universe.