Get Your Quarters Ready For TRON 2.0's December 2010 Release

[devincf]

http://chud.com/articles/articles/20...ATE/Page1.html

[MightyWorm]

Must... get... nerd... anticipation... under... control...

Okay. Sorry. I'm just excited for this film. This is the sort of entirely implausible sequel fanboys who can't seem to grasp how movies get made will always suggest - "Why remake _______? Just get the old actors back and do a sequel!" - and yet here it is, actually getting made. With Bridges.

Frankly my excitement has little to do with TRON itself. I've only seen the movie twice in a 20 years span. But I have to imagine there's some cool shit behind this movie for it to get the greenlight.

[Kush]

I am beyond envious that you probably won't talk under a severe waterboarding situation regarding Tron: Legacy

[duke fleed]

I am definitely seeing...Tron Legacy, next year. I liked the film, but it did pale in comparison to...Star Trek II, The Beastmaster, Conan The Barbarian, E.T., Firefox, Megaforce, Rocky III, First Blood etc. I hope the sequel is better, but David Warner and Jeff Bridges were great as EEEEEEvil Villain and Hero respectively.

[E.T.C.]

Oh boy oh boy I can't wait for this movie!!! The preview looked great!

But something about your article confused me...there's a Smurfs movie coming out next year? I didn't think that was happening that fast, or at all for that matter!

[Matt M]

Am I correcting in assuming that this will also be in 3D? That's a no-brainer, right?

[Pop Zeus]

Wait, THE SMURFS is a big deal?

okay, I'll post on topic. This looks really neat and frankly, the time for TRON to come back seems about right. I love the idea of Daft Punk scoring this.

[Reasor]

God damn I love that light cycle design. Minus the neon, it wouldn't look out of place among Giger's biomechanoid art.

And Fleed, while I agree that '82 was an unparalleled year for sci-fi, I have to respectfully disagree about Tron's place in it. That movie is a gem in its own right.

[Jim Barg]

That date's loaded. Somebody's moving from that spot, right?

Still can't wrap my head around the fact that it's a Christmas release...

[duke fleed]

Rheokhu, I never said Tron was...Bad, I just said it did not compare to the greater films of 82. I loved the light cycles then, just as I like the new one in the pic. I watched the original numerous times.

[Bitches Leave]

This franchise never did much for me. Even as a kid I thought the whole thing looked "silly". But glad you guys have many geekasms to look forward to as new stuff is revealed during the next year or so.

[ElCapitanAmerica]

I was floored by the visual of the original, at the time they and the pure computer animated bits of the movie were really unprecedented. This movie probably had a profound effect on why I love my job.

Also, I had no idea there was a Smurfs movie. Please tell me it's not live action!

[agracru]

The fact that Devin can't talk about it but goes out of his way to mention that what he has seen of it is awesome both is killing me and making me that much more rabid with anticipation. Naturally.

[Jim Barg]

Originally Posted by ElCapitanAmerica

Also, I had no idea there was a Smurfs movie. Please tell me it's not live action!

Nope. Paramount and Nickelodeon are planning a trilogy of CGI films. Yes, really.

[FilmNerdJamie]

No way, Green Hornet won't move. Tron Legacy will slaughter it if the date holds.

[Jim Barg]

I'm intrigued more by the fact that this looks like Disney's big holiday release next year. Wasn't that Rapunzel's status?

[DaveBrasgalla]

I'm not really knocked out by the Daft Punk snippet... I'm interested to hear all the tracks they've done, but that segment sounded fairly unremarkable (albeit out of context).

I was really hoping against likelihood that someone would latch onto Dave Tipper for this film's soundtrack... now that would be hip!

[Cylon Baby]

Originally Posted by ElCapitanAmerica

I was floored by the visual of the original, at the time they and the pure computer animated bits of the movie were really unprecedented. This movie probably had a profound effect on why I love my job.

Also, I had no idea there was a Smurfs movie. Please tell me it's not live action!

Fun Fact: the first TRON movie has NO computer animation! It was all hand drawn!

I can't explain why the sight of Jeff Bridges and Light Cycles has me excited: I don't think much of the first movie but damn I'll be there on opening night...and Daft Punk WILL be a purchase too!

[ElCapitanAmerica]

Originally Posted by Cylon Baby

Fun Fact: the first TRON movie has NO computer animation! It was all hand drawn!

Fun Fact: Anybody that knows anything about the history of computer graphics would know that you are WRONG!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_%28film%29

Tron has a distinctive visual style, as it was one of the first films from a major studio to use computer graphics extensively.

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Tron has a distinctive visual style, as it was one of the first films from a major studio to use computer graphics extensively.

To create the computer animation sequences of Tron, Disney turned to the four leading computer graphics firms of the day: Information International Inc. of Culver City, California, who owned the Super Foonly F-1 (the fastest PDP-10 ever made and the only one of its kind); MAGI of Elmsford, New York; Robert Abel and Associates of California; and Digital Effects of New York City.[2] Bill Kovacs worked on this movie while working for Robert Abel before going on to found Wavefront Technologies. Tron was one of the first movies to make extensive use of any form of computer animation, and is celebrated as a milestone in the computer animation industry. However, the film contains less computer-generated imagery than is generally supposed: Only fifteen to twenty minutes of actual animation were used,[4] mostly scenes that use vehicles such as light-cycles, tanks and ships. Because the technology to combine computer animation and live action did not exist at the time, these sequences were intercut with the filmed characters.

http://www.tron-sector.com/articles/article.aspx?ID=30

COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY

Computer graphics were first applied to aerospace and scientific research in the mid-1960s, when methods of simulating objects digitally in their dimensions proved as effective as building models. The technology has since been diverted into the entertainment field. Information International Inc. (Triple-I) and Robert Abel & Associates of Los Angeles, and the Mathematic Applications Group Inc. (MAGI) and Digital Effects of New York -- four of the nation's foremost computer graphics houses -- produced the computer imagery for "TRON"

Computer-generated landscapes, buildings and vehicles provide settings for live-action characters in the film's electronic world. Though computer imagery has been previously seen as an effect in motion pictures ("Star Wars," "Looker" and "West World" are a few examples) "TRON" is the first film to use the technique to create a three-dimensional world.

MAGI, the single largest contributor of computer imagery, speeded the process of supplying its work to Disney Studios in Burbank by a trans-continental computer hook-up. Before each scene was finalized in MAGI's lab in Elmsford, N.Y., it was previewed on a computer monitor at Disney. Corrections could then be made in the scene immediately. Previously, the only way of previewing the scene was to film it, ship it to Burbank, get corrections made, ship it back to Elmsford.... and continue this ping-ponging until the scene was correct. The computer link cut between two-and-a-half to five days from the creation of each scene.

Richard Taylor, director of Information International's Digital Scene Simulation division, oversees construction of "TRON's" computerized environments. He is assisted by Larry Elm, head of MAGI's computer graphics division, and by optical effects artist John Scheele.

[Timothy225]

'Twixt Tron: Legacy and Green Hornet, my only concern is which one I'll see first when I see 'em both as a double feature on opening night.

Never get tired of that light cycle reveal.

[duke fleed]

I think that, Tron Legacy will...Swat...The Green Hornet at the box office.

[ElCapitanAmerica]

Not sure if it was posted before, but there was a recent announcement that it will also open in IMAX 3D the same day;

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/2733...-december-2010

Disney has announced that Tron: Legacy, the sequel to the 1982 classic, will be coming in IMAX 3D to a screen near you at the end of next year.

17 December 2010 has been earmarked as the Friday of choice which will see the film going head to head with Warner Bros. Pictures' Yogi Bear and Columbia Pictures' The Green Hornet and vie for the lion's share of the festive season's box office cash.

The news comes in line with Disney's promise that each of their releases from now on will be in 3D and will support the blockbuster title both in maximising audience immersiveness and minimizing potential losses through piracy.

Tron: Legacy will be the third of Disney's five picture deal with IMAX whose chairman and president, Greg Foster, said:

"We share a common goal with our partners at Disney, which is to transport people to places they normally can't go, and the world of Tron is certainly one of those cool places. Since I saw the first glimpse of Tron: Legacy in 3D over a year ago, I've felt it was the perfect match for the The IMAX Experience".