TRON: LEGACY Trailer in Glorious 2D

by Kurt Halfyard, March 9, 2010 8:46 AM

The Z-Axis friendly version of the Tron sequel trailer went out on a fair number of 3D screens in front of Alice in Wonderland this past weekend. Last night, Disney launched it on the Internet for the rest of us to get a gander.

They certainly got the visuals and the music (courtesy Daft Punk) right, but this trailer does not give much confidence in the acting or script. A quarter on the floor of the arcade? Seriously? Consolation pize is that there is some Bruce Boxleitner and Jeff Bridges in there as well as many nods to the original.

Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn, looks into his father's 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 Kevin's loyal confidant, 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.

Video

9 Comments

by venger, March 9, 2010 10:46 AM

The trailer looks very sleek and got me interested on who did the production as it does look rather nice. I got a tad worried there though, it's a directorial debut of Joseph Kosinski. He's also slated to work on the reboots of Logan's Run and The Black Hole, but other then that he's 'only' done commercials. Which i have to agree are rather beautiful. (check http://www.josephkosinski.com/main.html for his earlier work).

Now i'm hoping they pull this of on the storypart of the movie as well. They do have some Lost talent on board and even the writer of the original is getting onboard (for however much that maybe).

Tron is one of the gems that made a major impact on me when i was a kid though, so here's to hoping they don't make it into a Matrix Reloaded type sequel.

by Rhythm-X, March 9, 2010 1:15 PM

Everyone I saw ALICE IN WONDERLAND with agreed that the best part of the evening was this trailer, including people who had never seen TRON.

Finding a quarter on the floor of an arcade works just fine in the context of a sequel to a movie where the whole premise is that a human being gets zapped into a computer with a laser beam. One may as well say that WIZARD OF OZ is rubbish because in real life Dorothy would have just been dismembered by that tornado.

Kurt Halfyard replied to comment from Rhythm-X, March 9, 2010 2:13 PM

I suppose it is more along the lines of properly articulating what I mean by "picking up a quarter seems so lazy".

How clunky are the dramatic beats going to play. Clearly the 'Tron-iverse' is the selling point and the draw here, but them bringing the production design down-to-earth so to speak is going to put things more from Burton's Batman to Nolan's Batman Begins, and the danger (and certainly why BB suffered) of going to 'real' is that you place extra strain on the story elements because things become less grounded in pure 'this is a movie' fantasy. I guess the 'outside world' stuff is simply bland in this trailer. That may be by design, but I'm not so sure.

Of all directors, Paul Verhoeven tends to strike the right balance between 'movie-ness' and 'real' to get his story across, which is why a his actioners (yes, even Total Recall but especially Starship Troopers and Robocop) tend to be watched as much by high and low-brow audiences. I think David Fincher failed with Benjamin Button, and Nolan didn't get the balance right until the second Batman movie.

by Airchinapilot, March 9, 2010 1:57 PM

Looks gorgeous but I'm hoping the non-action scenes aren't quite as wooden as what we see here. Bruce Boxleitner isn't the most subtle of actors.

Rhythm-X replied to comment from Airchinapilot, March 10, 2010 4:03 PM

Obligatory Atarimatt "Boxleitner Vs Bridges" - http://tinyurl.com/ya565tb

by Chris, March 9, 2010 11:24 PM

I'm an 8-year old again...

by rtorso, March 10, 2010 5:31 AM

Tron looked like Tron. This just looks like a movie.

Blakberi replied to comment from rtorso, March 10, 2010 8:24 AM

It's hard to fathom what that means - care to elaborate?

by DarienA, March 13, 2010 1:56 PM

He didn't find the quarter, he put it in the slot of the machine and because the machine was off the quarter fell through out the coin return and to the floor, you should watch the trailer again.

Qinlong commented on Review: THE LADY fights an incredibly personal battle : The fact that Michelle Yeoh didn't get any official recognition from the major awards is really unjust, I think. Not only did she deserve it, but as a...

Genki commented on Topless Soldiers Take On Zombie Terrorists In The Crazy Trailer For OSOMBIE! : Trailer is good entertainment, but movie perhaps not so good....

Paul commented on PARADISE LOST Indeed As Proyas' Project Shut Down. : This is a crying shame, I worked on this for over a year. would of been visually groundbreaking. I can see how the money men might of been cautious wi...