Update: Found a videocam’d version of the tr2n trailer. Don’t know how long it will last. It’s fuzzy quality, but totally worth checking out.
Oh my. I’m 3000 miles away from San Diego and I can still feel the excitement from the surprise release of a new preview for Disney’s sequel to TRON. Yep, we had heard that the film was greenlit, but had no idea that production was under way, let alone casting finished and filming commenced.
Yet, as evidenced by the scene played for attendees of the “Race to Witch Mountain” panel Disney hosted at San Diego Comic-Con, Tron 2.0, or TR2N as the teaser title called it, is well under way. However, attendees were told that it would be about a year before more footage was revealed.
Adam Quigley from /film describes the teaser:
The teaser starts off with the camera panning through a strange stylized landscape. At this point, nobody knew what we were watching, so only silence filled the hall. And then, two blue/yellow suit-wearing motorcyclists burst into frame, engaged in a frenzy of a race. Audiences erupted in applause.
The race continues to grow heated between the two players until the yellow guy finds a way to swerve in front of the blue, leaving his yellow race trail behind him. The blue guy smashes into it and causes sort of an electric ripple, launching him over the edge of the track. He grabs on a ledge, just barely holding on.
Apparently Jeff Bridges makes an appearance as well. I like that Quigley feels the graphics and feel of the movie make it obvious this isn’t just another cash-grab sequel from the Mouse House, but a serious attempt at a revisiting the universe of TRON.
The 1982 original was a seminal moment in film making. Now that we’ve had 26 years to reflect on it, Tron is to CGI animation as Snow White has been to traditional feature length animation. OK, that might be a bit of a stretch, but it definitely helped inspire the techies and animators who launched Pixar. So we owe the original Tron creators for that at least.
Also see: Ain’t It Cool News (warning:some bad language) and Geeks of Doom‘s coverage.
Update: FirstShowing has some great coverage. I’m still looking for actual video of the teaser… anyone have it?
Greetings programs!
First saw TRON in the theater in 1982 – the summer before 6th grade. It completely blew me away with its groundbreaking visuals (for the time) and cool subject matter. A computer wiz – digitized into cyberspace (before the term “cyberspace” even existed) and forced to fight for his life by playing video games on the other side of the screen! TRON remains my absolute favorite film of all time to this day.
I’m both excited and worried about the sequel. I’d love a sequel, but it has to be done right. Jeff Bridges is on board, so that’s a big step in the right direction. I hate spoilers, but accidentally read bits of some while poking around articles about this news. So far, what I’ve read seems very interesting.
I’m getting chills just thinking about how cool this might be… I’m such a TRON-nerd and DAMN PROUD of it! :-)
Pingback: TR2N Trailer | The Disney Blog
The bootleg trailer has me totally freaking out (in a good way). I’ve been fearing the idea of a sequel, since I’ve had a hard time believing it could be done well. However, after seeing the trailer — complete with the appearance of Jeff Bridges — I’m totally stoked. It’s easy to see why the audience was cheering. This looks totally kick ass!
I WILL be lining up to see this when it comes out.
kudos to the folks at Digital Domain.
Te folks at DD did a great job of keeping this under wraps.
Like Aliens, I saw this movie over hundreds of times… Tron is art, TR2N will bring forth a new generation of geeks/nerds/techies I’m sure. Hopefully it’ll come in 3D as well..
Comments are closed.