Tuesday, November 17

• Olivia Wilde Discusses Fix and Tron: Legacy

  Actress Olivia Wilde has been padding her resume with a wide variety of projects lately, from the popular TV drama House to the horror film Turistas to the slapstick period comedy Year One. Not only are her projects disparate in genre and tone, but in production size. Wilde's latest film, Fix, in which she co-stars with her real-life husband, actor-director Tao Ruspoli, was shot in only 18 days using a single camera. In contrast, Wilde recently acted alongside Jeff Bridges in Disney's upcoming Tron: Legacy, a movie that required several camera units, not to mention untold hours of computer graphics work.

  In a recent interview with Moviefone, Wilde discussed working on a movie as close to home as Fix, which was inspired by an actual day in the lives of her husband and his brother, a heroin addict.

  It was the closest I've ever been to material because I knew the day it was based on and knew the person so well, but I feel that we responsibly represented that real day and that real person. It has been really interesting to go around the world and have these audiences respond so much to the idea of addiction within the family and trying to force someone you love to do something that they may not want to do. It's a universal theme, even though it was a very personal story.

  Unfortunately, while Wilde did discuss performing stunts and wearing "rubber suits" in Tron: Legacy in a prior interview, she did not offer much additional insight into the highly-anticipated sequel.

  [Tron: Legacy was] amazing. Very different from Fix! There's such a cone of silence around Tron, but it'll be fun to watch. That was also an amazing honor, to be able to carry on a legacy like Tron. I don't think diehard fans will be disappointed. I think they will be very happy with what we did. There's a real story. It's going to look cool, but that's not all [there is to it].

  
  
  Next Showing: Tron: Legacy opens December 17, 2010
  

  Tron Legacy - Concept Footage

  An early build from the new Tron reboot.

  Posted 11/17/2009 by BrentJS

  Related: Jeff Bridges | Olivia Wilde | Tao Ruspoli | Tron | Tron: Legacy | Year One | Turistas

Sunday, October 4

• Olivia Wilde Discusses The Difficulty of Making Tron: Legacy

  With the shooting of Tron: Legacy behind her, Olivia Wilde told ComingSoon that making the sequel to 1982's Tron was about as difficult as giving "birth to a 19-pound baby."

  It was, like, the most difficult thing I've ever done. We shot some 20-hour days, we were wearing the suits, which are not easy to wear. I was doing a lot of my own stunts and training a lot of the time. Really pushing myself physically as well as mentally. It was an epic undertaking. It was a HUGE film to shoot in those few days. I was so proud to be a part of it. The morning that we wrapped it was an unbelievable feeling. We all just lost it. It was sunrise and we couldn't believe we were actually done.

  You know, no matter how many people tell you it's going to be the hardest thing you've ever done you still aren't aware, or capable of being of aware, of what goes into one of those movies. Now I have so much more empathy and respect for the people who've done it before me ... and after. I don't write-off large sci-fi films so flippantly as I did. I look at anyone who's had to put on a rubber suit and I'm, like, "Oh wow, you're awesome! You survived!" (laughs) None of the suits are like our suits, though. Our suits have really risen to a new level of discomfort, but it's brilliant and well worth it. It's totally worth it.

  So worth it that Wilde says she would welcome a return for Tron 3, should it happen.

  Oh, of course! If we were so lucky that would be incredible. There are so many more stories to tell within that world.

  Tron: Legacy stars Wilde, along with Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Bruce Boxleitner, John Hurt, and Michael Sheen. Joseph Kosinski directs. Legacy opens December 17, 2010 in both IMAX 3-D and conventional theaters.

  
  

  Posted 10/04/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Olivia Wilde | Tron: Legacy

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

Thursday, June 18

• 10 Hottest Chicks from the Summer Flicks

  

  It's summer. Time for baseball, gin and tonics, and movies (not necessarily in that order). Here are 10 women who are getting us to ask theater managers: "Can ya turn up the air conditioning?"

  Check out our list of the 10 Hottest Chicks from the Summer Flicks. Yes, Megan Fox made the list. See the other 9!

  
  

  Posted 06/18/2009 by reelz

  Related: Amy Adams | Heather Graham | Krista Allen | Moon Bloodgood | Zoe Saldana | Megan Fox | Leslie Mann | Penelope Cruz | Olivia Wilde | Sienna Miller | G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra | Star Trek | Avatar | Year One | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | Funny People | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Burning Palms | Terminator Salvation | The Hangover | G-Force | The Final Destination

Tuesday, January 13

• Olivia Wilde Hypes Tron Sequel

  An interview with House star Olivia Wilde before the Golden Globes shed some light on the upcoming Tron sequel. Wilde talked to MTV about the technology used in the movie, as well as the fashion, which Wilde claims will have a "ripple effect" on modern times. Get ready for clothing with neon piping throughout! Check out the interview below.

  
  

  Posted 01/13/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Olivia Wilde | Tron: Legacy

Tuesday, January 6

• Olivia Wilde talks Tron 2.0

  Cameras have yet to roll on Tron 2.0, and won't until March, but doesn't mean Olivia Wilde (TV's House) can't start giving away a few spoilers about the sequel. First, Wilde confirmed Bruce Boxleitner's association. "He's so fantastic, Bruce," she told SCI FI Wire, "He's been telling us all about the process of making the first one."

  As far as the technical side goes, a lot of advancements have been made in movie making since 1982. Several new technologies will be used, including the face replacement technology used in Benjamin Button, but Wilde says Tron 2.0 will not be some greenscreen movie created on computers. Director Joseph Kosinski is "a really big fan of using as much sets as you can, because he's an architect as well, so he likes to build these worlds. And with something like Tron, I think it helps to create the environment as much as possible without too much green screen so that these characters can exist within this world, ... with the feel ... as real as possible."

  Wilde didn't give away everything. When it comes to whether she will ride a light cycle, she won't say. "I'm afraid I'd be murdered before I left the building [if I told you]."

  
  
  Next Showing: Tron 2.0 opens sometime in 2010

  Posted 01/06/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Bruce Boxleitner | Olivia Wilde | Tron: Legacy

Tuesday, December 16

• Tron Sequel Casting News

  For those of you asking: "They're making a sequel to Tron?" The answer is "yes." The clunky title of Tr2n was revealed at a Comic-Con in August 2008, when a teaser trailer debuted. Olivia Wilde (TV's House) and Beau Garrett (Turistas) have been added to a cast that includes Jeff Bridges returning to fight the Master Control program (What, Bruce Boxleitner is busy?). In fact, Bridges is not just returning, he's excited. He told the Guardian: "Basically, I'm still a child, I love being childlike, and here was another chance to play with these crazy toys. And the cutting-edge technology makes it exciting."

  Tr2n will be shot in 3-D and is set to open sometime in 2011. It will be directed by newcomer Joseph Kosinski and written by Lost producers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis.

  
  

  Posted 12/16/2008 by Ryan

  Related: Bruce Boxleitner | Jeff Bridges | Edward Kitsis | Adam Horowitz | Beau Garrett | Olivia Wilde | Tron | Tron: Legacy