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Did anyone know about this?
I happened to find out about it reading an article about Olivia Wilde *House*, being Maxim's hottest Woman of 09.
Jeff Bridges will reprises his role as Kevin Flynn!
Can't wait to start seeing trailers about this.
Bruce Boxleitner is rumored to be in it to, reprising his role as Alan Bradley/Tron
Edit: Just read that they released a Teaser at Comiccon 08
Couple of new things..
Movie will be called Tron: Legacy
A Couple of Viral *Viral as in advertisement marketing not viral as in computer virus* sites have popped up, most likely by the movie publishers, to start promoting the film.
The First site through clues led to a Arcade down the road from ComicCon Called Flynn's Arcade with Tron Themes and Classic Arcade games.
There is also an Offical site now but nothing there really.
And here is a Much better quality of the Teaser Trailer.
It is from the Flynn Lives site but I don't see how to navigate it from the home page.
I've been watching this for awhile, and the more I see the more I like. Very cool indeed.
I'd read on the movie sites and Wikipedia that there's a firm in Canada that did full-body scans of the older actors so that they could show their "avatars" as they appeared in the original film. Something similar to what they did with Shwarzenagger in the last Terminator movie. There's more details implied about where the story is going, but one can only speculate based on that.
With Tron, I remember that technology experts at the time scoffed at Disney for making up the notion of a literal "computer world" when the reality was so much more about the hardware and electronics - this being the coin-op video game era.
From everything I've read on the Tron websites, it sounds like they took the notion and made it into the concept of a self-sustaining "virtual world" - more believable I suppose in today's information age of MMO worlds and simulation studies.
Looking back, the idea of virtual avatars for people; games wrapped into a world reality; and the general idea of an evolving computer world and intelligence makes Tron seem much more innovative than it was considered at the time. I think that's what makes me appreciate the movie more now than before.
Also, the whole design look was initially developed by Jean "Moebius" Giraud, and I've always thought his work was pretty cool.
I've been watching this for awhile, and the more I see the more I like. Very cool indeed.
I'd read on the movie sites and Wikipedia that there's a firm in Canada that did full-body scans of the older actors so that they could show their "avatars" as they appeared in the original film. Something similar to what they did with Shwarzenagger in the last Terminator movie. There's more details implied about where the story is going, but one can only speculate based on that.
With Tron, I remember that technology experts at the time scoffed at Disney for making up the notion of a literal "computer world" when the reality was so much more about the hardware and electronics - this being the coin-op video game era.
From everything I've read on the Tron websites, it sounds like they took the notion and made it into the concept of a self-sustaining "virtual world" - more believable I suppose in today's information age of MMO worlds and simulation studies.
Looking back, the idea of virtual avatars for people; games wrapped into a world reality; and the general idea of an evolving computer world and intelligence makes Tron seem much more innovative than it was considered at the time. I think that's what makes me appreciate the movie more now than before.
Also, the whole design look was initially developed by Jean "Moebius" Giraud, and I've always thought his work was pretty cool.
Actually, the Tron universe goes way beyond just a computer world.
After Flynn took over ENCOM, they became bigger than Apple and Microsoft together...
Actually, the Tron universe goes way beyond just a computer world.
History of the Tron Universe
After Flynn took over ENCOM, they became bigger than Apple and Microsoft together...
Thanks for the information. I knew that they had made other Tron games to add to the Tron mythology, but not the details.
My point was that Tron (the movie) struck me as being way more conceptually in line with the Information Age than I think anyone envisioned in 1982.
In the framework of the early 80's, ENCOM seems to come off as an IBM stand-in. Considering that at that time, IBM was the computer giant - Apple wouldn't reach real popularity until 1984 with it's first Macintosh and Microsoft was just a software contractor for IBM in late 1981 - the idea of a massive singular computer system and enclosed networks was something only viable to governments and corporations.
The director, Steve Lindsberger, has said his idea was to open the world of computers to the general public through the popularity of video games and animation. That the characters succeed in allowing everyone access to the computer world against the MCP has a sort of reflection in how the little guys (Jobs and Gates) managed to create a computer market for the public with the personal computer.
Mind you, I know the history is not as simple as that, nor is the movie quite so Shakespearian. Still, it's an interesting parallel. If any of that is interesting, I would suggest Accidental Empires as good read.