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'Tron Legacy' Trailer Arrives

Mar 9th 2010 9:18AM By: John Gholson

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Hold on to your butts. The trailer for Tron Legacy has arrived, ready to melt your brain into a useless puddle of goo until December 17, 2010 rolls around and we can actually see the whole thing.

I love everything about this trailer. I love that it's a straight-up sequel to Tron, while being completely accessible to a new audience. I love the newly-designed look of the computer world, a look that somehow manages to be completely original while never betraying the original designs. I love the way it's shot, the way it's cut, and the music cues. It's a perfect, gorgeous tease.

What do you think? Has this added Tron Legacy to your list of 2010's must-sees or does it feel like just another 3D reboot?

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Will 'Tron' Be Racing to Your Television?

Mar 3rd 2010 4:24PM By: John Gholson

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Blue Sky Disney is reporting that Disney has big plans and high hopes for the renewed Tron franchise. Obviously. The viral marketing campaign rolls on, full-steam ahead, while ticket holders for this weekend's Alice in Wonderland seem just as excited for the Tron Legacy trailer (in glorious 3D, of course) that plays before the Tim Burton flick.
Blue Sky reports that Disney is moving forward with a CG-animated television series set in the world of Tron Legacy that would serve as a way to keep the franchise alive between live-action sequels to the feature film. A computer-generated cartoon about programs with personalities, fighting evil in a cybernetic world within a computer? Sounds like Tron is not the only thing getting a reboot, but ReBoot as well. Of course I realize that Tron came first, but there's a younger generation out there with fonder memories of ReBoot than of the twenty-eight year-old cult film Tron. It'll be interesting to see how Disney sets the show apart -- will it keep the darker look of the upcoming film and will it be geared towards adult fans or the Saturday morning crowd?

Tron Legacy hits theatres on December 17, 2010.

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Two New 'Tron Legacy' Pics

Feb 4th 2010 11:08AM By: Jennifer A. Brown

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Tron Legacy is not coming out for a whole ten months, but that doesn't mean there isn't anything to talk about. Take these two photos released by Disney; Jeff Bridges, hot off his academy award nomination for Crazy Heart, is looking rather serious with some sort of glowing halo on his back. Below are Olivia Wilde and Garrett Hedlund in what appears to be a potentially romantic scene.

These are the only two pictures in the Disney press kit, so it's barely a taste, and they hardly qualify as teasers. I'm hoping we get a whole lot more in the near future. I'm interested to see how Hedlund fares in his role, as he's not had much of a chance to show his strengths as an actor, with Troy and Eragon, although I liked him in Friday Night Lights and Four Brothers. Wilde is a better known entity, with plenty of TV work (House, The Black Donnelly's, The O.C.). Now we have the lesser knowns pictured, how about some Michael Sheen, hmmm? Or James Frain, or even Bruce Boxleitner, who was in the original Tron with Bridges? Please?


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'Tron' Plus 'The Black Hole'? Meet MINDstyle's V.I.N.C.E.N.T.

Jan 15th 2010 3:45PM By: John Gholson

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It's not my intent to become a shill for Sideshow Collectibles, but I could not, in good conscience, let this slip through the cracks. Sideshow offers a series of artsy Disney vinyl figures from the design geniuses at MINDstyle that include things like a Tiki statue of the alien Stitch and absurdist versions of Mickey Mouse. Now MINDstyle have gotten their hands on two beloved geek properties and smashed them together in a way that just feels right.

If Tron is the peanut butter, then The Black Hole is the chocolate, making MINDstyle's vinyl V.I.N.C.E.N.T. figure the delicious peanut butter cup. And it is delicious. The limited edition 10-inch tall robot is styled with a Tron color scheme and is ready for pre-order on Sideshow's site starting today. Honestly, if this had been released when I was seven, my brain would've exploded.

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Disney Marvel Merge: Who's the Next Superstar Superhero?

Dec 30th 2009 10:03AM By: Jennifer A. Brown

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Disney's 4.2 billion dollar purchase of Marvel Entertainment is expected to close this week. With that kind of price tag, Disney's latest acquisition, announced back in August, is heftier than originally planned as Marvel's stock rose by 40% since the announcement, according to a Hollywood Reporter article.

Some of the Marvel properties, such as Spider-Man, are already locked into long term deals with rival studios, but that doesn't mean there isn't a lot of potential in Marvel's vault.

Disney's doing good, and with that 40% bump in the sticker price, Marvel's healthy, too. So now the question is which one of Marvel's 5,000 plus characters is going to the big screen? Iron Man's first movie took in $572 million, despite being considered a B-list superhero, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Based on the response to the Iron Man 2 trailer debut at Buttnumbathon earlier this month, the sequel will likely do just as well, if not better.

So which will it be? Ant-Man? The Runaways? Dr. Strange? What Marvel superhero would you most like to see brought to the big screen? Inquiring minds want to know.

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Disney Venturing Back to the 'Black Hole'

Dec 1st 2009 1:25PM By: Jacob Hall

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I have pretty vivid memories of stumbling across a copy of Black Hole in a Hollywood Video when I was a young impressionable lad, seeing the Disney logo and expecting the movie to be an exciting adventure for the whole family. Instead, I got a nasty robot named Maximilian rampaging through people's epidermis (and later going to Hell...I think). Let's just say the movie left an impression.

Well, looks like it left an impression on people with big offices at Disney, because The Hollywood Reporter is, er, reporting that Black Hole is getting pushed through the remake machine courtesy of Joseph Kosinski and Sean Bailey, the director and producer of the still-a-year-away-from-release Tron: Legacy. For those of you unfamiliar with the original, I'll let the original article do the heavy lifting:

"The original followed a group of space explorers aboard the USS Palomino who come across a lost ship, the USS Cygnus, hovering outside a black hole. Inside the Cygnus, the explorers meet a scientist, commanding an army of faceless robots, who explains his crew deserted him as he planned to go through the black hole. The explorers soon discover that the robots are the remnants of the former crew and that the scientist has no intention of letting them leave."

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More Join Pixar's 'John Carter of Mars'

Sep 30th 2009 9:32AM By: Sci-Fi Squad Staff

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By: Elisabeth Rappe

I was slightly disappointed with the initial casting of John Carter of Mars, but as Andrew Stanton keeps bringing the wonderful with every addition to the roster, I just have to trust him when it comes to his choice of Taylor Kitsch. But Stanton is sending more impressive talent to Mars, as according to The Hollywood Reporter, James Purefoy, Thomas Haden Church, and Mark Strong have joined the cast.

Purefoy will be playing Kantos Kan, the captain of the Xavarian, the grand flagship of Helium. Carter meets him in the prisons of Warhoon, and they're forced to battle in a gladitorial match. They become allies as only former gladiators can, and Kan assists him on his quest to save Mars / Barsoom. I found it difficult to picture the secondary characters in Princess of Mars, so I feel lame in saying "Purefoy is perfect as Kan!" but he'll fit the part of a seasoned naval captain. He'll be quite dashing, even. (Actually, I think Purefoy would have made a good Carter.)

Church will be playing Tal Hajus, who THR calls "a vicious Thark warrior who is determined to become king." In the books, he's a Jabba the Hut type who lusts after Princess Dejah Thoris, and is happily ensconced as a leader, so this might be one of the first big changes you'll see in the story. It would probably make things a lot more interesting to have Church play him as a capable bastard than a slobby wreck.










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A Chat with 'Tron' Director & 'Tron: Legacy' Producer Steven Lisberger

Sep 15th 2009 9:20AM By: Sci-Fi Squad Staff

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By: Kevin Kelly

It will have been 28 years after the original Tron when Tron: Legacy arrives, but the nearly three-decade gap hasn't dulled Steven Lisberger's enthusiasm for the project. He wrote and directed the first movie, spending much of his own money in the development process, until he and his team finally found a studio to say yes. Even after that, it wasn't easy getting the movie made. People were skeptical about using computers to do special effects, and, in the end, Tron failed to win a special effects Oscar ... because the Academy said they "cheated" by using computers. Oh, the irony.

These days, Lisberger more closely resembles The Dude, Jeff Bridges' character in The Big Lebowski. He has long hair, a bushy goatee, and a very laid-back attitude about life. He doesn't give short, bite-sized, media-ready answers that the internet loves, but instead he takes the time to pause and give thoughtful answers to questions both simple and complicated. Read on after the break for the full interview, where he compares Tron: Legacy to the Wright brothers' flight attempts.

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Credits Report: WALL-E

Jul 13th 2009 1:03PM By: Sci-Fi Squad Staff

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By Kevin Kelly (originally appeared on Cinematical)

Wall-E is such a good, sappy, funny, adventurous, touching, and enjoyable movie, that by the time you get to the end you're exhausted. Plus you probably have a single tear sliding down your cheek like Iron Eyes Cody. So by the time the end credits roll, you're looking for something to bring you back down to Earth, no pun intended. Aw, who am I kidding -- that pun was definitely intended.

Thankfully that thing isn't a Randy Newman song, although it does come via his cousin Thomas Newman who thank all the stars above wisely lets Peter Gabriel sing the outtro song "Down to Earth." Hey, it netted him an Oscar nod. The song is slow, beautiful, and plays out against visual images depicting the "new" history of mankind on the planet: cave drawings, hieroglyphics, mosaics, sketches, pointilism, Van Gogh skies ... and when it finally slides down underground and turns into a traditional credit crawl, you've got 8-bit graphics closing things out. Great stuff.

To quote Rob Reiner, "But hey, enough of my yakkin'! Whaddaya say? Let's boogie!" Check out the full end sequence after the jump.

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