Tron Sequel News

A sequel to the 1982 cult classic, Tron Legacy hits theaters in 2010.

While the movie has undergone a few name changes, the premise remains the same:

Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), the son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), looks into his dad's disappearance, only to get pulled into the same world of fierce programs and dangerous games where his father has been living for over two decades.

Olivia Wilde also stars in the flick.

In possibly the best move the Tron sequel has done since securing Jeff Bridges, the powers that be have renamed the movie from the horribly titled Tr2n to Tron Legacy.

We were gonna see it either way, but man this sure makes it way easier to talk about!  I mean, how did you even pronounce Tr2n.  Think about it.

We still don't know what the official title for the upcoming Tron sequel, scheduled for a 2009 release, will be.

But a new report does indicate a few plot details for the movie. To wit:

• The story takes place approximately 25 years after the original.
• The movie begins in 1989, asKevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) has created some of the world's best-selling games based on his Game Grid challenges in the original film.
• Flynn has a seven-year old son named Sean.
• Flynn disappears, leaving behind his son... and numerous mysteries.

Shooting for Tron 2.0 is underway.

According to sources, Disney flew Jeff Bridges to Canada for a unique digitization process that will "de-age" the actor by 27 years for the sequel.

Bridge's character from the original Tron, Flynn, is set to interact with his younger self in the follow-up, as early scenes from the movie show him watching over the young Flynn racing.

This technique - also used in X-Men: The Last Stand to knock 20 years off Patrick Stewart and Ian Mckellen - involves plaster-casting Bridges to create a 3-D model; then sculpting a younger version of his face to be super-imposed onto a body double.

Tron 2.0 will be released in the summer of 2011.

Olivia Wilde is speaking out about the upcoming sequel to Tron.

In an interview with Sci Fi Wire, the House star opened up - as most as she could - about the buzzed about follow-up:

The film will be just as impressive for our time as it was in 1982 for the original. The technological advances have, of course, been enormous, and the effects that we have access to have been so revolutionary. ... We saw an incredible advancement in technology with the use of the face replacement in Benjamin Button, and I think that is marking some of what's to come, and certainly .... in the direction of Tron.

Just as far as people being incredibly innovative and taking huge steps forward as far as using technology to create alternative realities. And I think that it's really going to please people that it's going to be just as kind of huge and shocking and just as much of a new movie-watching experience as the first one was.

Garrett Hedlund has been tapped to star in the Tron sequel, the follow-up to the 1982 cult classic.

Hedlund has previously appeared in Troy, Friday Night Lights, Four Brothers, Eragon and Georgia Rule.

Garrett Hedlund is an actor on the rise.

Hedlund will take on the lead role in the next Tron, someone that finds himself yanked into the world of a computer, retracing the steps of a character from the original movie named Kevin Flynn.

News continues to pour in regarding the upcoming Tron sequel:

Bruce Boxleitner (pictured), who portrayed Alan Bradley and the title character in the 1982 film Tron, is currently filming a role for the upcoming Tron 2.0.

The actor joins fellow original cast member Jeff Bridges in the film. Olivia Wilde and Beau Garrett, new to the franchise, will also star in the anticipated action-adventure.

Olivia Wilde and Beau Garrett have become the first stars to sign on for the upcoming Tron sequel, a follow-up to the 1982 Disney cult classic.

The original movie, based on a programmer thrust into a computer and forced to fight in games he helped create, is lauded for its sci-fi gladiator-style battles and groundbreaking special effects.

The new film will be considered as a follow-up chapter.

Plot details are mostly unknown at this time, but Wilde will portray a worker in the virtual world that tries to help fight Master Control Program, the villainous intelligence protocol that was the nemesis in the original film.

Here's the good news: a Tron sequel is still in the works.

Here's the better news: it will no longer go by the confusig name of Tr2n.

Now, here's the bad news: the movie will instead be called TRZ.

That seems even more confusing than the original idea. Meanwhile, initial plot details for the film have been released:

“After being transported into the surreal landscape of a mainframe computer to destroy an intruder (Tron), a programmer finds himself allied with the leader of a rebellion against a corrupt cyber-entity.”

It's official, at Comic-Con, Disney announced a sequel to its 1982 Sci-Fi adventure, Tron, officially titled Tr2n.

Also announced, Tr2n will see the return of Jeff Bridges as Flynn as well as a younger version of himself.  What else do we know so far?  The light cycles are back and we're going to have an updated version of the Tron costumes.

Get excited people.