Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter has described scoring the 2010 Disney film Tron: Legacy as a "depressing" and "limiting" experience, speaking on a recent episode of The A24 Podcast with Dev Hynes (Blood Orange). He recalled that director Joseph Kosinski initially wanted a fully electronic soundtrack, but Bangalter and bandmate Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo pushed instead to work with a full symphony orchestra, only to find the creative process far more constrained than expected.

Bangalter explained that after months developing synth tones, the pair struggled to make experimental ideas fit around the film's dialogue, since medium-range frequencies repeatedly clashed with the actors' voices, forcing them back towards more traditional scoring techniques. Tron: Legacy was Daft Punk's first full film score, later reissued in expanded and vinyl editions, and the duo split in 2021 after 28 years together; Bangalter has since ruled out a reunion, though the pair's music remained prominent this summer via their track 'One More Time' being used as France's official World Cup goal music.