TRON: Legacy

[SpaceJump]

Looks like the lightcycles have dysons for engines

[lordcookie]

Interview with the director:

On the technology used:

Our approach is not like “Avatar,” which I think is 3-D from the first shot to the last. Ours is sort of a “Wizard of Oz” approach. Ninety-eight percent of the 3-D is in the world of “Tron.” The 3-D really starts once we get into the Tron world.

It’s a combination of technologies that Zemeckis has been using in terms of the completely digital motion-capture of a character and for the live-action camera system. We used a camera developed by James Cameron’s company. We used a newer generation of camera than the one used on “Avatar.” They built it specifically for us.

We did not shoot anything with an IMAX camera, because it uses film, and since we were shooting in 3-D, we used two digital cameras. That being said, we are doing an IMAX version. What I am considering doing now is finishing four or five sections of the film in a tall format - not letterbox - and in an IMAX theater, the black bars at the top and bottom of the frame will disappear and it will become a full-screen sequence, which should be really cool. I think IMAX will be the way to see this movie.

On the story and the involvement of the original stars:

The focus was always to serve the story we are telling. To include Bruce Boxleitner is not at all a cameo or stunt casting. He is integral to the story we’re trying to tell, which is why he’s in it. We’ve taken the events of the first movie as historical facts. In our story, Kevin Flynn emerged from his first experience as CEO of ENCOM and actually released the Tron video game based on his experiences in the first movie. ENCOM has become the most innovative, most successful, most forward-thinking digital company in the world as of 1989. There are fun references to parts of the first film. Sam Flynn [Garrett Hedlund], in searching for his father, has to retrace his steps and comes upon clues and places that we visited in the first film, like Flynn’s Arcade. Even in the world of Tron itself, a lot of vehicles and sequences have evolved. We’ll get to see how the disc game has changed, how the light cycle battle has changed. We get to see the new version of these iconic sequences. Things have gotten bigger and a bit out of control.

Jeff is playing two characters. He’s playing Kevin Flynn, the character from the original film, and he’s playing Clu, the avatar that Kevin Flynn created in the 1980s. I’d say he’s Clu 2. There was a Clu in the first film who looked like Jeff but was very simple in terms of his abilities. He’s very stiff. Clu 2 is a second incarnation of Kevin’s avatar. He doesn’t only look like Jeff, but he can think like him too. So it’s a whole new level of artificial intelligence.

On getting Daft Punk to do the score:

I’m a huge electronic-music fan. This is a film where there was a lot of interest from different electronic bands that I follow to work on the film. I felt it was important, just as the first film was so forward-thinking visually and Wendy Carlos’ music was so innovative, I felt we had to do the same thing here. So rather than going with a traditional film composer, I wanted to try something fresh and different. I set up a meeting with Daft Punk. We met for pancakes at the 101 Coffee Shop in L.A. one morning. These guys take “Tron” very seriously. Obviously, “Tron” was a huge influence on them. It was almost like they were interviewing me to make sure that I was going to hold up to the “Tron” legacy. But the more we talked, we realized that creatively, we were totally synced up. I’ve been working on it with them for over a year and a half. I don’t know of a movie where you’re working on the soundtrack months before you start filming. The level of integration between the music and the film is incredibly strong.

Source: Collider

[lordcookie]

And here is the hi-res edition of the poster from a few days ago.

[Quest]

It's funny really, but I think I'd be quite concerned about this if it weren't for the involvement of Daft Punk. Their score alone should make it worth the ticket price, so hopefully their faith in the director is well placed.

[Asura]

It's funny really, but I think I'd be quite concerned about this if it weren't for the involvement of Daft Punk. Their score alone should make it worth the ticket price, so hopefully their faith in the director is well placed.

Agreed. The early footage I saw actually had me very concerned this was going to be extremely poor. It's surprising how one new tidbit of news can totally restore your confidence; if their score comes even close to helping the film replicate the brilliance of Interstella 5555, that's a ticket for me.

[JohnC]

Wasn't that early footage just a proof of concept type thing to convince Disney to make it rather than something actually shot for the movie itself?

[lordcookie]

Correct.

[SpaceJump]

Fragile from the soundtrack.

[bcass]

I thought that had already been proven to be fake? I think it was posted last year in the Music folder.

[lordcookie]

Can a mod (I'm looking at you, Goose) change the topic title to Tron Legacy please?

A new photo:

A new(?) poster:

[son_of_helvetica]

But the more we talked, we realized that creatively, we were totally synced up. I’ve been working on it with them for over a year and a half. I don’t know of a movie where you’re working on the soundtrack months before you start filming. The level of integration between the music and the film is incredibly strong.

This excites me something rotten. Can't. Wait.

[Valiant]

This will be the first film I watch in 3D I want it to be special.

[Mogget]

I am looking forward to Tron 2 more than any other film. I loved the original, and I just hope that they can capture that unique Tron stylistic look with modern technology.

[Purin]

I am looking forward to Tron 2 more than any other film. I loved the original, and I just hope that they can capture that unique Tron stylistic look with modern technology.

Well they can, if the trailer is anything to go by.

[SpaceJump]

Another tune taken from the Daft Punk thread, while it looks like the other may be a fake this seems to be the real deal. Reminds me of the Akira soundtrack when the voice bit comes in, really cool anyway.

[JohnC]

Please don't mess it up.

[Quest]

Reminds me of the Akira soundtrack when the voice bit comes in, really cool anyway.

Doll's Polyphony? Yeah, I hear it.

Real or otherwise, that's pretty amazing. If it's not Daft Punk, there's someone out there wasting serious talent pretending to be them.

[Calashnikov]

It apparently isn't Daft Punk after all. The tune is called 'Body Double,' and it's by an artist called PilotPriest.

I got the Akira toy hallucination vibe as well, right on my first listen.

More gutted that 'Fragile' isn't the real deal. That track FUCKED UP MY SOUL

[SpaceJump]

It apparently isn't Daft Punk after all. The tune is called 'Body Double,' and it's by an artist called PilotPriest.

I got the Akira toy hallucination vibe as well, right on my first listen.

More gutted that 'Fragile' isn't the real deal. That track FUCKED UP MY SOUL

So it is, his other tunes are pretty good too! Finding some good music with people pretending to have found daft punk tron tunes

[lordcookie]

Thanks to whoever changed the topic title.

Two snippets of news from /Film:

TV series rumour...

I’ve heard that the folks over at Walt Disney Pictures are going nuts for Tron: Legacy, and think it will be huge. A new report coming from AICN claims that Disney might also developing some spin-off television series spin-off for 2011/2012 (probably for Disney XD). No word on if it would be animated or live action, although I’m not sure how they could do live-action and compete with the million dollar effects in Tron: Legacy. So my guess is it is probably animated, most probably computer animated. For now, mark this as rumor.

Next trailer attached to Alice in Wonderland...

Also, the new trailer for the Tron sequel is expected to screen before Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, but that is to be expected as Alice is released in 3D by Disney, so it is the perfect promotional venue. This also explains why Disney recently released a new production photo (of Jeff Bridges) from the film. Studios tend to do this right before the release of a new trailer. AICN’s scooper claims the new spot is much longer, almost two and a half minutes in length

[Valiant]

I can see why Disney would be having much higher expectations for this after the success of Avatar in 3D

[lordcookie]

A new viral website has appeared with a strange binary clock that is pointing to a date - 24th February - so could we see a new the first trailer then?

http://www.flynnlives.com/ZeroHour/

[glb]

Saw the new trailer this afternoon (exec said it premieres worldwide on Saturday but expect it to leak before then).

Understandably, the trailer expands a bit more on the plot, with Sam Flynn being told a call came from his dad's old arcade. He pays the old place a visit and finds a room that leads him to the truth about what happened to his father. Then there is a blur of pretty sweet looking images, including a four-wheel car-like vehicle in the style of the usual lightcycles. Olivia Wilde was born to wear a Tron suit too

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As said, expect it any time in the next 24 hours...

EDIT: Hmmm, okay Disney have been rather more secure than I thought. Expect it in the next week...?

[Phelan]

So excited...!!

[jon_cybernet]

Anyone else get tickets for the Tron Legacy IMAX event in London tomorrow? EXCITED!

[Hackign]

I shall go see the Tron Legacy Trailer that has Alice in Wonderland attached.

[LongHairStu]

Is this guaranteed to be on Alice? I was umming and ahhing about seeing Alice, this could seal the deal.

Or is it viewable online anywhere yet? The trailer, not Alice.

[Capwn]

Argh, this trailer just isn't coming. So instead, lets just read about it...

The Tron Legacy trailer opens with the traditional view of the studio’s logo — an image of Cinderella’s Castle from Disneyland — except altered tastefully with an effect resembling scan lines. As the preview unspools, we’re introduced to Garrett Hedlund riding his Ducati through city streets. It’s a not-so-subtle setup for his character’s proficiency on a light cycle.

Hedlund plays Sam Flynn, son of missing programmer Kevin Flynn. Bruce Boxleitner, revisiting his role as Alan Bradley, acts as the de facto narrator of the trailer. He’s cluing Sam in to his father’s whereabouts, suggesting that Flynn was onto something revolutionary before he dropped off the face of the earth.

We see Sam revisiting his dad’s old, shuttered videogame arcade — where dusty videogame cabinets, covered in tarps, loom like statues in an ancient tomb. Sam flips the breaker on and the machines come to life. He drops a token in the Tron machine (with the fictional Encom logo rather than the Bally Midway emblem found on real-world machines) but the coin drops right through the return. Turns out the machine hides a trap door — it opens, revealing Kevin Flynn’s secret lair and a computer monitor. Sam sits down at the computer and wipes a hand across the dusty screen.

The audience at this sneak screening, totally familiar with the lore of Tron, laughed knowingly when the trailer cut to the image of a fairly innocuous-looking device — similar to the scanner that zapped Kevin Flynn into a virtual world way back in 1982. Sam’s about to take a similar trip.

Here’s where the trailer gets really fun. The music, a new composition by Daft Punk, kicks in with retro electronics that do great honor to Wendy Carlos‘ original Tron score. We see flashes of Tron Legacy’s computer world.

The first look is a doozy: The menacing Recognizer vehicle hovers and glows an evil red as chain lightning explodes in the virtual sky. Much of the remainder of the trailer is disc-fu — characters racing, fighting and looking all kinds of badass on the game grid. If the trailer is any indication, Tron Legacy will feature more than a couple life-or-death Frisbee duels.

We catch more than a glimpse of Olivia Wilde stretched out on a Victorian love chair. The furniture rests atop a glowing white floor — an obvious nod to the final moments of 2001: A Space Odyssey. We see a band of orange-and-yellow glowing toughs — likely the resident bullies in the game grid. We also catch a tantalizing glimpse of Michael Sheen as Castor, an audacious (or so one would infer from his onscreen air guitar skills) nightclub owner in Tron Legacy’s virtual world.

The clip ends with the Tron money shot — a light-cycle race. One racer cuts another off. The losing orange bike explodes into liquid and sparks.

[zektbach]

Argh, this trailer just isn't coming. So instead, lets just read about it...

*massive amounts of drooling*

Cannot bloody wait for this.

[Capwn]

doh, just posted a fake trailer thinking it was the real thing. COME ON!!!