Published at: July 27, 2001, 4:18 a.m. CST by staff
Hey folks, Harry here. The Hollywood Reporter has a great long story today on TRON 2.0 and a new TRON 20th Anniversary DVD!!! They report that Steven Lisberger (the god that directed the original) is currently working on the 3rd draft of the script, after Richard Jeffries 2nd Draft.
Apparently, the film will be set in the cyberspace world, 20 years from now... so like 2021. Style-wise the film will resemble the original, but now there will be several complete digital creations, in addition to the actors. And it will have a new cast of characters, as the Tron program has been rewritten by other people to keep security up to date for the future world. Of interest to INDIE filmmakers may be the statement that Lisberger claims he could make a movie that looks like the original for only $200,000 today. AHEM... Somebody, start making a movie that looks this cool in the indie scene... AHEM!
Oh, apparently we're still in for LIGHT CYCLES... YESSSSSSSS!!!!
From the sound of it, we won't be seeing any of the original cast... though I'd love to death to see Bridges again, that character had a vocal style that I just loved and I'm hoping like hell that we don't have a ton of damn teenage characters loose in this world.
Something that I'm really curious about is what does a program look like that was worked on by tons of people. Like say, WINDOWS 2000? I mean, if a program has the soul of its creator, and multiple people created it, is it a genetic milkshake of that person, schizophrenic? What?
On January 15th we're gonna get a new DVD with more deleted scenes, an extensive documentary about the making of TRON, apparently over 4 hours of commentary. In 2003 apparently we're going to see a major TRON PC game that is first person perspective action set in the TRON universe and will apparently have online gameplay for multiple players... hehehehehe, ADDICTION WARNING FOR GEEKS FROM THE EIGHTIES!!!! Right now, Lisberger is simply awaiting his green light from Disney. EISNER, MAKE THE LIGHT GREEN PLEASE!!!!
