Some new goodies have been released from Tron: Legacy, The Walt Disney Company’s much-anticipated sequel to their 1982 classic, Tron.
Said goodies include a shiny new publicity image that has been released, and in an interview with MTV, director Joseph Kosinski shared some new details on the characters in the movie, whether the film will play in IMAX, and if this is the beginning of a brand new franchise.
Tron: Legacy is still almost a year away from its December 2010 release, but they’re certainly staying in the public eye and maintaining attention so far. We shall see how that all holds up over the next ten months or so!
The image above was release a while back, but is still fun to check out if you have not seen it. Click on over to the other side to see the brand new publicity image and read some quotes from Kosinski.
The only real story details that the director offered were in regard to Jeff Bridges‘ characters, which of course are his same characters from the original film. Only this time, the computerized version of him will be a little more intelligent.
Jeff is playing two characters. He’s playing Kevin Flynn, the character from the original film, and he’s playing Clu, the avatar that Kevin Flynn created in the 1980s. I’d say he’s Clu 2. There was a Clu in the first film who looked like Jeff but was very simple in terms of his abilities. He’s very stiff. Clu 2 is a second incarnation of Kevin’s avatar. He doesn’t only look like Jeff, but he can think like him too. So it’s a whole new level of artificial intelligence.
We already know that Tron: Legacy will be in 3D, but what about IMAX; will we see light cycle battles on the biggest of screens?
We did not shoot anything with an IMAX camera, because it uses film, and since we were shooting in 3-D, we used two digital cameras. That being said, we are doing an IMAX version. What I am considering doing now is finishing four or five sections of the film in a tall format — not letterbox — and in an IMAX theater, the black bars at the top and bottom of the frame will disappear and it will become a full-screen sequence, which should be really cool. I think IMAX will be the way to see this movie.
Finally, Kosinski carefully answered whether this is the one and only new Tron movie that we will see, or if it will become a big new franchise in the future.
Yeah. I think the world we’ve built here is big enough and has scale to support another story. As to whether that will happen, that depends on how the film is received when it comes out.
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