Film News – TRON

All the way back in 1982 a phenomenon hit our screens; the first (to my knowledge) computer graphics film reached our screens. It was called TRON, and it looked great, in a 1982 battlezone kind of way. Well it is being remade and it looks like Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner are going to be in the film again. Confusingly enough though it looks like the film is going to be called TRON which seems strange to me, especially after TR2N had been a popular idea and one that I think looks the part, or the more unimaginative TRON 2.0.

But remakes seem to be the thing at the moment, or at least visiting old movies to bring them up to date, Rambo, Star Trek, Batman, Indiana Jones etc to name but a few. I would be keen to go see TRON 2. The first time it came around I was a teenager and into gaming and the look at feel of it all was brilliant, now is 2011 when it due to be released I am still into gaming but of course the processing power for special effects is so much better now than it was then.

I found some Info online re a possible synopsis for the film.

• The title will almost certainly NOT be TRON 2 or TR2N. Possibly something with a colon – TRON:
• The story takes place approximately 25 years after the original.
• The movie starts in 1989. Kevin Flynn (Bridges) has created some of the world’s top selling games based on his Game Grid challenges in the first film, and has marketed the hell out of what he saw there (action figures, Recognizer night lights, yadda yadda yadda).
• Flynn has a seven year old son named Sean.
• Flynn disappears, leaving behind his son.
• Alan Bradley (Boxleitner) takes over Flynn’s company (ENCOM).
• Jump forward in time: Sean is now twenty something.
• Alan Bradley has info that leads Sean to look for Flynn.
• Search takes Sean to Flynn’s old arcade – mothballed.
• Into the computer world goes Sean.
• There’s a CLU character (Flynn’s computer alter-ego from the first film).
• Flynn has programmed CLU to run around and make a better computer world, but CLU’s gone corrupt and is creating his own interpretation of that perfect world. This is why CLU (young Bridges) is being such a punk-ass in that Comic Con footage we saw.
• CLU has it out for a kind of program called ISOs & wants to eradicate them.
• The ISOs believe Sean Flynn is the one who will free them from CLU’s belligerence.
• Somewhere in the computer world, the real Kevin Flynn is whizzing around in a classic Light Cycle. Will he help in the battle against CLU?
• Light Jets have jet walls, too.
• Light Cycles versus Light Jets.
• Big Disc battle!
• Bridges going all out for this role. Embracing it. Fans will go gaa gaa.

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Source – ainitcool.com
But with infinitely more films out there that may well be ripe for a remake, which ones would you like to see get a makeover? For me it would be Forbidden Planet and maybe a bit more controversially Alien. I think the original has stood the test of time so well, I would just love to see what they would do with a straight remake of the original in terms of effects.