The return of Daft Punk!
& LA native Jeff Bridges
Originally posted on March 9th, 2010 – with some new additions from Comic Con 2010.
Ok so I admit I have been harboring a bit of hostility with Daft Punk, but only because I really have missed them. The only thing that has made their absence tolerable is knowing that they will be back soon, and with a cool new project!
What an amazing way for the DJ duo to return…. I mean how much more Tron can you get than Daft Punk?? There music suits the theme of the movie perfectly, and the guys of Daft Punk look like they could costume and star in the film.
Electronic music duo Daft Punk will be composing the film score. At the time of the 2009 Comic-Con, it was revealed they have composed 24 tracks for the film. When Kosinski (the director) was asked why he decided to have Daft Punk to do the film score, he replied, “How could you not at least go to those guys?
Olivia Wilde revealed that the duo will also make an appearance in the film, and that Daft Punk may be involved with future promotional events.
Disney Digital 3D will release Tron Legacy on December 17th, 2010.
I remember the original Tron ‘oh so very well’, because as a child, this movie was on the Disney Channel 24-7, and annoyed me to no end!
Tron Legacy at Comic Con 2010
Hi handsome!
TRON: Legacy is directed by Joseph Kosinski with screenplay written by Adam Horowitz, Richard Jefferies, Edward Kitsis, written by Brian Klugman, Steven Lisberger, and Lee Sternthal. Produced by Sean Bailey, Donald Kushner, Steven Lisberger, Jeffrey Silver, and Justin Springer.
The cast consists of Olivia Wilde, Michael Sheen, Jeff Bridges, James Frain, Garrett Hedlund, and Bruce Boxleitner.
Jeff Bridges, who is now an Academy Award winner and an LA Native, returns to star in Tron Legacy.
The original Tron came out in 1982, and is about
Hacker/arcade owner Kevin Flynn is desperate to prove that the hottest videogames from ENCOM were stolen from him by a former co-worker, who is now a senior executive there. Flynn’s efforts, however, are made fruitless by ENCOM’s “Big Brother,” the megalomaniacal Master Control Program. One night, the MCP catches Flynn in an attempted hack and pulls him into the virtual world. Flynn finds that the MCP is making life in the virtual world just as, if not more, miserable as in the real world. Flynn’s only hope is to find TRON, a heroic independent system security program, and help him destroy the MCP to bring order to both worlds.
So what is Tron Legacy about?
Inside the ENCOM computer system, a program called CLU, created by Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) during the original fight against the Master Control Program, has been causing chaos and destruction across the grid. Sean Flynn, son of former ENCOM CEO Kevin Flynn, is in search of his missing father, but Sean discovers that his father’s whereabouts are somehow connected to the program making a mess of the ENCOM system. In order to find his father, Sean has to go into the ENCOM system, and fight his way to CLU, but in the neon world of TRON, a lot has changed and new dangers await him at every turn.
Tron Legacy is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world thats 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 fathers 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 Kevins 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.
Photos from Wireimage and IMDB
