Tron 2 In 2010
A sequel to the cult science-fiction movie Tron is under production under the direction of Joseph Kosinski. No official date yet for the release of Tron 2 but we may fairly expect if for 2010.
The first Tron movie written and directed by Steven Lisberger was released by Disney in 1982: it was really in advance on its time with cutting-edge computer graphics. It was starring Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn (and his counterpart inside the electronic world, Clu), Bruce Boxleitner as Alan Bradley (and Tron), Cindy Morgan as Dr. Lora Baines (and Yori) and Dan Shor as Ram. David Warner plays the villain, Ed Dillinger (and Sark), as well as providing the voice of the Master Control Program.
Here below a trailer (sourced by PalaceRoadshow from a VHS home video released in 1984) of the first movie Tron:
I'm even more amazed today by the technical advance of this film. They got everything right with the limited computer resources of the 1980's: that's incredible.
The movie Tron 2 could be even more mesmerizing with the latest developments in CGI.
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7 comments:
This is going to be the best movie ever, I think it will get the best box office $$$ for that year, I cant bevel they are making a second one, it is my favorite movie, and I am only 21. The movie came out 26 years ago. I thought they could never make a TRON movie because of all the new technology in the world, but I see now, more then ever, all the new technology is going to make the movie that much better. They broke throw the barrier for digital movies 26 years ago by being the first to use digital movie magic, and they are about to do it agine by being the first to use gaming graphics for a movie which makes it look that much sweeter. I hope they keep it under raps like X-files, but I hope they do more advertising for it then X-files did. This clip makes me want to play all my TRON games agine and I have like all of them. Hope others are excited like I am “If you can’t tell by now”
thank you for puting this up, youtube keeps tacking them down, like the one you put up, hope your youtub site comes back up soon sory abou that , that sucks, and i liked talking with people about it, people dont rilly talk hear, but i still come any ways :)
Actually if you go check:
They did not use CGI....
Most of the 'lins', glowing outfits, etc., were all DRAWN by the Disney animators....
Just go find 'behind the scenes stuff.....
(PS: movie trivia: fist movie to use 'CGI' was 'The Last Starfighter', all scenes in 'space' were drawn by an 'Atari 7800')
Speaking of Jeff Bridges, I wrote an unsolicited script for a Starman sequel back in 1998. It was my first script and I quit college to finish it. It’s been gathering dust ever since. I sent it to Jeff Bridges and John carpenter, although I would prefer if Carpenter didn’t direct a sequel. I wrote some good f/x sequences and some interesting characters. I’m pretty sure I’ll never be involved, but I’d to see the f/x scene from the beach being incorporated, (Jeff’s manager Neil will know the one, totally plagiarised from another movie, but it would look great on film today). If anyone has any questions, email me at hansenfilm@yahoo.ie and I’ll answer them. (Although I won’t give away any plot points. And yes there is a son and indeed, I actually have the perfect casting suggestion!! So, with Karen Allen in the spotlight, Jeff returning for Tron 2, why the hell shouldn't they bet back together for Starman 2?
To Anonymous:
I have to disagree with you. I saw the original TRON back when it came out in 1982, plunked many a quarter into the arcade game, and saw the film at the age of 9 years old. To this very day, it STILL blows me away.
I also bought the 20th-Anniversary Special Edition DVD, six years ago, with 5 hours of supplemental material. On that note, TRON actually did use SOME CGI, as there were THREE different companies that did the CGI, and they communicated with each other by using a very old modem system. The parts that were CGI were the vehicles, The MCP, the graphics in the games that Flynn was playing in his arcade (Space Paranoids and the light cycle game) and to some extent the backgrounds, as well as the sequence where Flynn flies into the digital world inside the computer. Everything else was actually hand-drawn and backlight composited with the aid of Kodalux sheets that were filmed with the backlighting (basically a precursor to rotoscoping). There was also some stop-motion and compositing work, such as the scene where Flynn gets digitized. On the DVD commentary, Lisberger, Ellenshaw, and Richard Taylor mention that they basically broke up a picture of Jeff Bridges into pieces, and then animated it breaking up frame-by-frame, as the laser hit the picture, and also wire mesh was composited into the shot, as well as the shot where Clu derezzes after getting tortured by the MCP. There was also tons of optical effects (such as mattes, especially the shot with the rows of cubicles inside the ENCOM company) used.
Nowadays, any kid with preferably a Macintosh, some good graphics program (like Maya), and Final Cut Pro or Adobe After Effects, could make TRON easily.
Also, the first film to use computer animation was NOT, "The Last Starfighter" but an old sci-fi film called, "Westworld", with actor Yul Brynner. TRON was actually the first film to use CGI for more than a few minutes (actually a total of 15 minutes of the whole film to be exact). Look it up on www.imdb.com. Then again, there would be no, "Toy Story", or, "Barnyard", or, "Happy Feet", or even the 1983 TV show, "Automan" (which was produced by the same guy that produced TRON) without TRON having been ONE OF the first films of its kind that entered the picture. End of Line.
Woah, awesome music! I've never seen that trailer, nice find.
The original Tron movie DID use CGI......almost a full 15 minutes of it total. The light cycles, the solar sailer, the recognizers, the MCP and a few other details/sequences. All the rest of the effects were cel or post-production backlighting to give the effect that everything was glowing with electricity. This movie was the very first movie to use CGI and paved the way for all that we see today.
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