Friday, July 10

• Disney Officially Discloses Tron Sequel Plot

  Disney finally released the official synopsis for the Tron sequel and it's... exactly what it was speculated to be months ago. Here's the studio's summary, in all its official-ness:

  Tron (title not final) (In Disney Digital 3D™)

  Tron is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that's unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), looks into his father's disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin's loyal confidant (Olivia Wilde), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous.

  To summarize, the original Tron is about a computer programmer getting sucked into a video game to fight the Master Control Program and the sequel will be about that computer programmer's son getting sucked into the same video game to fight the Master Control Program. Hmm. Feels like a theme is emerging.

  With the synopsis out of the way, hopefully Disney will officially name the sequel, which has gone through multiple preliminary titles so far, from Tr2n to Tron 2.0 to the highly original Tron. Perhaps Disney will reveal it later this month at their San Diego Comic-Con Tron presentation.

  Buzz on the sequel has been very good so far. An early script review called the movie "filled with problems and potential." Hopefully director Joseph Kosinski can fix those problems and maximum the potential by its 2011 release.

  
  

  Posted 07/10/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Jeff Bridges | Garrett Hedlund | Olivia Wilde | Tron: Legacy | Tron

Tuesday, March 31

• Tron Sequel Adds Supermodel and Title

  The Tron sequel has gone by many names: Tr2n, Tron 2.0, but at ShoWest, Slashfilm reports that Disney presented a new logo with the brand new name of Tron. Yes, it's simple, classic, perhaps a touch similar to the original, but sometimes, you've got to go with what works, right Disney? (Psst, Disney, it's not that hard, just pick a new title and stick with it! Watch: Tron 2: Tron Harder. Done!)

  In more Tron news, and by that I mean the sequel and not the original, supermodel Serinda Swan has been added to its cast. Swan will be familiar to Smallville fans, having just played sorceress Zatanna in a recent episode. Swan, along with Beau Garrett and two other actresses, will play "temptresses from inside the computer world. We're sort of the main guy's go-to girls."

  Which "main guy" is unclear. Jeff Bridges? Bruce Boxleitner? Garrett Hedlund as Bridges' son? Pretty vague, Swan.

  
  
  Next Showing: Tron opens in 2011 (it also opened in 1982 as a different movie with the same name)

  Posted 03/31/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Bruce Boxleitner | Jeff Bridges | Garrett Hedlund | Serinda Swan | Beau Garrett | Tron: Legacy

Wednesday, January 7

• Tron 2.0 Finds a New Lead

  Disney has picked their lead for the Tron sequel, says The Hollywood Reporter, and it is the newcomer Garrett Hedlund (Friday Night Lights). Hedlund may not be a household name at this point, but neither was Bruce Boxleitner back in 1982. Hedlund beat out Ryan Gosling and Star Trek's Chris Pine for the role.

  Like Boxleitner, Hedlund will play a man who gets sucked into a video game and fight the Master Control Program. He joins Boxleitner, Jeff Bridges, and Olivia Wilde (who recently gushed about the project) in the multi-million dollar sequel.

  
  

  Posted 01/07/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Bruce Boxleitner | Chris Pine | Ryan Gosling | Garrett Hedlund | Tron: Legacy | Friday Night Lights