The trailer for Tron Legacy has appeared online via a viral puzzle campaign that jumps off from the multi-city scavenger hunt launched a couple weeks ago. You can check out the Flynn Lives viral site if you like, but for those who just want the very pretty computerized goods, you can skip right to the good stuff, after the break. Read More »
Posted on Thursday, March 4th, 2010 by Peter Sciretta
The official countdown to the in-theater debut of the Tron: Legacy movie trailer continues (I call it “the slow tease”), with a fourth photo: Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) has entered the old Flynn’s Arcade, which as you can see is boarded up, dusty, and covered in plastic. At the end of row is the old Tron arcade machine, which Sam uncovers. We’ve been telling you all week, the Tron Legacy trailer will be attached to Alice in Wonderland beginning this Friday, March 5th, and would likely hit the web sometime next week. Director Joseph Kosinski confirms this fact with MTV:
“My suggestion is to see it in 3-D in surround sound this weekend and download it next week and feel free to freeze-frame and analyze,” Kosinski said. “It was important to me that when people see it for the first time, they have the opportunity to see it in 3-D on a big screen. The entire second half of the trailer is in 3-D. On your iPhone, it’s not quite the same.”
Check out the full uncropped photo after the jump. And if you’ve missed any of the photos released thus far, I’ve also included those photos after the jump.
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Posted on Sunday, February 28th, 2010 by Peter Sciretta
After the Tron Legacy Trailer Premiere Event in Los Angeles (video blogged here), Alex from FirstShowing and I were talking with director Joseph Kosinski and learned a bit of news. After telling Joseph how wonderful I thought it was to see the trailer fill so much of the huge IMAX screen, creating a more immersive 3D experience, Kosinski revealed to me that five action sequences from Tron Legacy will be shown in 1.7:1 aspect ratio, exclusively in IMAX Theatres.
Posted on Saturday, February 27th, 2010 by Peter Sciretta
I just returned home from the Tron Legacy event in Los Angeles, held at The Bridge IMAX Theatre. The event was actually to premiere the first Tron Legacy movie trailer, which will be attached to Alice in Wonderland next week.
After the jump you can watch a short 10-minute video blog I recorded with Alex of FirstShowing after the screening. We talk about the viral that led to this event, the event itself and peoples reactions. I try to give a brief description of the trailer, and we give our short thoughts on the trailer itself. I was going to joke about how we recorded a 10 minute video review of a two minute trailer, but as you can see, its much more than that. For those of you who don’t want to watch the video, I’ve also included a few thoughts in text below.
Posted on Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 by Russ Fischer
Tron isn’t the only classic Disney property to be revitalized by Joseph Kosinski. After he finishes Tron Legacy, Kosinski will turn to a new version of The Black Hole. (As a producer, possibly as director.) The 1979 original was the most expensive film Disney had made at the time, and pioneered the use of computer graphics and electronic music. As a response to 2001 and Star Wars the movie was a commercial failure, but it has an enduring legacy thanks to some timeless production design and effects work, not to mention the nightmarish ending.
So what will Kosinksi’s version be like? Read More »
Hey, I didn’t know Jeff Bridges was in a remake of Logan’s Run! He looks really awesome in this first image from…oops. That’s Bridges in Tron Legacy, isn’t it? And is that a disc attached to his back, or is he just happy to have an Oscar nomination? Refresh yourself on details about the dual characters for Bridges and get a high-res version of the image after the break. Read More »
Posted on Friday, January 22nd, 2010 by Russ Fischer
It’s been a big week for Tron Legacy news. Director Joseph Kosinski went on the record about a number of different elements in the film, there was a new poster (pictured above, and available in high-res below) and a possible leak of some of Daft Punk’s score. All this with nearly a year to go before release. Read More »
Posted on Sunday, December 13th, 2009 by Brendon Connelly
A trailer for a tie-in videogame is a lot more relevant when we’re discussing a Tron picture than would normally be the case. The most obvious reason is that Tron was, of course, set within a virtual world and as such shares a lot of aesthetic and even generic qualities with videogames. Beyond that, there’s been a lot of stylistical flow between the first Tron film and the graphic design of videogames over the last couple of decades and also, most specifically to Tron Legacy, director Joseph Kosinski had previously created some TV spots for Halo 3 and Gears of War.
After the break you can see a trailer for Tron Evolution, the tie-in game to next winter’s Tron Legacy movie. There’s a clear through line in the design, from film to game - clearer even than from original Tron to this sequel.
Posted on Monday, November 30th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Disney is developing a reinvention of the 1979 sci-fi film The Black Hole, with Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski and producer Sean Bailey on board, along with Clash of the Titans scribe Travis Beacham working on the screenplay. Kosinski might direct if he can find time in his schedule, with his planned sci-fi epic Oblivion and further possible Tron sequels.
The details of the update are being kept tightly under wraps, though HeatVision reports that the new take grounds the story in “the science of a black hole, much more so than in the original,” and will see the return of the red robot Maximilian. Knowing Disney’s history, I’m sure this project is being developed for a 3D release.
Posted on Thursday, July 30th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Commercial director Joseph Kosinski (TRON Legacy) is developing a new feature film project for Radical Pictures titled Oblivion. You might recognize the title because it is the same title of a “illustrated novel” announced back in February, written by Kosinski with art by newcomer Tae Young Choi. For those of you who don’t yet know Kosinski’s work, check out some of his commercials, and the VFX concept footage that he directed to convince Disney to greenlight Tron 2 — all of which is very impressive. What is Oblivion about? Details and artwork after the jump.
