TR2N (aka TRON 2) (2011) - PREVIEW

TR2N (2011)

Starring: Garrett Hedlund, Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, Olivia Wilde, Beau Garrett
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Rated: Unrated
U.S. Opening Date: TBA 2011

It’s official: both Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner who starred in the original flick have signed on for Tron 2, or Tr2n as it is named, which is set for a 2011 release date - 29 years after the first film!

Released in 1981 the original Tron boasted some ground-breaking special effects involving gladiatorial battles featuring, amongst others, motorbikes set “inside” a computer making it probably the first virtual reality movie ever. However the film cost a fortune to make and bombed at the box office. In the interim it has however grown in cult status, particularly amongst ageing thirtysomethingers who were impressed with it as kids.

The plot involved a hacker (Bridges) who is “swallowed” into a virtual reality world and has to battle a rogue computer entity with the help of another entity. Incidentally Jeff Bridges was seen most recently as the bad guy in Iron Man and Bruce Boxleitner went on to play Sheridan in the epic Babylon 5 TV series.

Details on the plot are sketchy, but it is interesting that the film is being pushed as a “sequel” and not a remake, which will make it probably one of the most belated sequels in Hollywood history . . .  (The winner by all counts is Return to Oz, made 46 years after the original Wizard of Oz! Still, that one didn't star the same actors. If you can think of an even more belated sequel – one made a much longer time after the original starring the same actors – then let me know at scifimoviepage@yahoo.com.)

Tron 2 will be filmed using stop-motion capture and will be directed by commercials director Joseph Kosinski who is currently also set to helmet the Logan’s Run remake . . .