The cult classic movie Tron from 1982 is set to get a facelift this year with the release of a sequel movie called Tron Legacy. The second trailer for the movie was released yesterday, featuring gorgeous imagery and a highly anticipated sound score from geek favorite French electronic music duo Daft Punk. Jeff Bridges, who played the role of computer hacker genius Kevin Flynn from the original Tron, returns to Tron Legacy alongside his now grow up son, Sam. It is encouraging that Steven Lisberger, director of the original Tron, will be contributing to Tron Legacy as a producer. Be sure to check out the latest trailer and the earlier teaser trailer- multiple times – after the break. Plus a bonus: a video of the trailer for the original Tron from 1982.
Tron Legacy Looks Pretty Sweet
Like most of the big films being released recently, Tron will be available in 3D. With Tron’s signature high speed lightcycle chases, glowing disk projectile weaponry, and a simulated digital universe the film is ripe for some 3D awesomeness.
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When the original Tron movie was released in 1982 it was a revolutionary, daring production seen as high risk from its producer Walt Disney. Computer programs were a barely emerging concept in a society of Pong, mainframes, and a sizable dose of skepticism and fear about the potential for computers. In a sign of how the times have changed, today’s Tron sequel will fit naturally into our world of fast converging digital and biological technologies. Tron’s virtual world of humans and programs projecting themselves as digital avatars is a common theme in movies (Avatar) and TV shows (Caprica), and truly exists in the real world to a certain degree (Second Life, Augmented Reality, Foursquare, Video Conferencing). It is increasingly hard these days to think of futuristic advances that aren’t already being worked on in labs and corporations around the world. Enjoy the futuristic (but not that futuristic!) trailers below:
Latest trailer:
Previous teaser trailer:
Here is a bonus treat for you, the trailer for the original Tron from 1982:
[image credits: Walt Disney Pictures]
[sources: Wikipedia, The Internet Movie Database]
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Thanks for sharing those clips. Does Hollywood make original films anymore? It seems to me they are stuck on 25 year re-make loop!
What you say about the remake loop is true, but I hope that doesn't apply here. This is a sequel, not a remake, but it's also important to make a distinction between recycling something old finding a fresh take on a classic story. Tron was an important metaphor for human-machine interaction in the early 80s, and perhaps it will be again for the early 21st century. It may be that Tron is made again and again, every 30 years, updated for its time as appropriate. And as long as each version resonates with the generation that sees it, there's nothing wrong with that.
No,
A sequel happens w/ the same actors a few years after the fact at most.
A remake happens w/ different actors decades after the fact.
A remake can even be “rebooted” using some of the same actors.
A cheesy “reboot” happens when the actors look like grandparents.
See also: War Games
– Brian
In Hollywood, these things are denoted according to the relationship that the stories have to each other within the fictional universe. The new Tron movie is a sequel because it continues the earlier story, and occurs later on the same timeline. Also, Jeff Bridges is playing the same character he did before, the hero is his character's son, and the title contains the word “legacy.”
A remake is the same story told over again as if the first one never happened, like The Manchurian Candidate with Denzel Washington.
Those are the terms as they're used in Hollywood. “Reboot” in the TV/movie world is a relatively recent idea, referring more to a franchise than a story. So Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek have been rebooted, meaning that the stories have been started over and the ground rules redefined, so that a fresh perspective can be taken without having to worry about continuity.
The new Karate Kid movie will be a reboot if it becomes part of a new series with its own continuity, but if it's a one-time event, then history will remember it as a remake.
There are certainly sequels that are also essentially remakes, such as Teen Wolf Too, where there's a nod to continuity, but the filmmaker's real goal is to give the viewer essentially the same experience they had before.
Thanks for the tip on the War Games sequel, which I hadn't known about.
I didn't hear any Daft Punk in that trailer, unless they now make cliche dramatic loud noises instead of music.
isn’t that all daft punk ever made? noise? it sure ain’t music
Daft Punk not music? You are either extremely senile or downright stupid. Just because you may have different tastes in music does not negate the fact that they are if not the most, one of the largest electronic groups in history.
HAHahaHAHAhahahHAHA @joe
Wow, everyone who has made a comment (save for Michael) really likes to whine. I think this movie looks fantastic. Tron is one of my favorite movies and I've always wanted an update (reboot, remake, sequel, whatever you wanna call it). Complain all you want, but this movie is going to come out and be so awesome that you'll probably go blind.
Damn, if I go blind from the awesomeness, I won’t be able to see the fifth time.
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[...] As we mentioned earlier, when Tron first came out in 1982 it was a ground breaking movie, exploring the emerging world of video games and computing. The sequel (Tron Legacy) arrives in a time when that digital world has become more and more integrated with our own. It seems fitting then that someone took one of the coolest props from the movie and actually made it into a working machine in the real world. True, Parker Brother Choppers’ light-cycles won’t help you dual people to the death, but they are street legal motorcycles with custom features that will turn anyone’s head. From hypo-sprays to exoskeletons, science has a history of picking up ideas from science fiction. It should be interesting to see if any of the other ‘impossible’ ideas from Tron make their way to reality in the near future. [...]