“Dad…long time.” “You have no idea.” Just so everyone is privy to the new s**t, that
spiffy new teaser for Tron: Legacy is now officially online. This is, plain and simple, a great teaser. And I’ve already said this several times here, but I kinda love the “Flynn’s gone all Col. Kurtz up the datastream” approach they’re taking here. Plus, hey, Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges is in it, not to mention Bruce Boxleitner, a surprisingly young CGI-Bridges, Michael Sheen doing his best
Jemaine Bowie, and a very fetching Olivia Wilde. (But can we get a David Warner cameo?)
Update: “There’s a time dilation effect where time scales in the inside world about 50 times faster than it does in our world. So even though it’s been 20 years since Kevin disappeared, that’s been almost 1000 years in the computer.” Director Joseph Kosinski walks us through the teaser, shot-by-shot.
I really liked the trailer when i first saw it, but as i thought about it later i realized what a big letdown it was. In the time since the first movie, we’ve been to Middle Earth and back, through the Matrix, finished Star Wars, and now been Avatars. Pixar has shown us what life really lies in computers if we know how to communicate with them.
In that context, the trailer looks ridiculously like it was made in the late 1990s. The original TRON was groundbreaking and imaginative, thanks a lot to Syd Mead and the special effects designers. The new trailer looks like a poor upgrade rather than a quantum jump that is easily available now almost 30 years hence ( I did mention Pixar, Disney partners right?) The Tron 2.0 game looked so much more creative and evolutionary than the trailer. Plus these new costumes are so plain compared to the ones in Tron 2.0 or the original movie.
I really hope there some real special effects in the next trailer otherwise i’ll keep my original Tron memories like Windows XP instead of upgrading them to the disappointment of Tron Legacy’s Vista.