The original TRON celebrates its 30th Anniversary this year!
Here's a 1982 featurette about the making of the original film -- heralding the breakthrough CGI (computer generated imagery) that TRON brought to cinema -- featuring Writer/Director Steven Lisberger and Co-Visual Effects Supervisor Richard Taylor.
- Jay West
- Jay West
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Here's new and exciting footage from the upcoming TRON: UPRISING TV animated series -- currently set to debut on Disney's X D channel in April 2012 -- featuring TRON (Bruce Boxleitner), Beck (Elijah Wood), and Mara (Mandy Moore).
The highly stylized animation looks incredible -- making for a perfect setting to explore the fantasy/sci-fi world of TRON in. It's ironic and fitting that TRON is finally getting the animated treatment -- as the original 1982 TRON movie was first conceived and planned as an animated feature film.
This footage comes to us from a new Disney X D "Coming in 2012" reel -- which showcases upcoming series that will soon be making their debut on the channel, as well as new episodes for previous series:
New series:
- TRON: UPRISING
- Ultimate Spiderman
- Motorcity
- Lab Rats
New episodes of:
- Kickin' it
- Pair of Kings
- Kick Buttowski
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Happy Birthday to the enormously talented actor, photographer, and artist: Jeff Bridges --
aka uber-cool "User" Kevin Flynn -- who turns 62 today!
Jeff Bridges is also an incredible humanitarian. Click here to learn more about his "End Hunger Network" charity which is working to end childhood hunger in the United States -- and how you can help.
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Japanese car manufacturers Toyota have now unveiled the "Fun-Vii" -- a futuristic interactive concept car that features a touchscreen door -- with TRON like design and aesthetics: resembling an automobile version of the TRON: LEGACY styled light cycle coupled with TRON blue circuitry when in certain modes. The Fun-Vii -- which stands for "vehicle interactive internet" -- made its debut Monday at the Tokyo Motor Show at the Tokyo Big Sight in Koto Ward, Tokyo.
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 I was contacted recently by a fellow TRON fan named William Killay -- who has now self-published a book of interviews with the incredibly talented actors and filmmakers who collaborated in the making of the original 1982 TRON movie -- including: Jeff Bridges (Kevin Flynn/CLU), Bruce Boxleitner (TRON/Alan Bradley), Cindy Morgan (Yori/Lora Baines), Dan Shor (Ram/"Popcorn Guy"), Steven Lisberger (Writer/Director), Donald Kushner (Producer), Harrison Ellenshaw (Visual Effects Supervisor), Richard Winn Taylor II (Visual Effects Supervisor), Wendy Carlos (Music Composer), Bruce Logan (Cinematographer), John Scheele (Technical Effects Supervisor) -- and the publicist for the movie, Mike Bonifer, who also authored "The Art of TRON". The book looks at the goings on during the making of the movie, and the many challenges faced in bringing this ground-breaking film to life. It's now for sale on Amazon.
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Here's a recent fan made TRON 3 teaser trailer that incorporates scenes from a variety of film sources. The theme focuses on the Dillinger's (Actors David Warner and Cillian Murphy) revenge against Kevin and Sam Flynn (Actors Jeff Bridges and Garrett Hedlund).
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Here's video highlights I shot of "TRON Day" -- an event held at the 2011 D23 Expo on August 20, 2011 at the Anaheim Convention Center in California -- right by Disneyland. Actor Bruce Boxleitner (TRON/Alan Bradley) and actress Cindy Morgan (Yori/Lora Bradley) were on hand to greet fans and sign autographs -- and they were joined by actors Jackson Bostwick (TRON - Head Guard) and Rob Daly (TRON: LEGACY - Lead Sentry). Original costumes from the 1982 TRON movie were also on display for the characters: TRON, Yori, RAM (Dan Shor), and Flynn (Jeff Bridges).
I brought some of my original 1982 TRON kodaliths -- which Bruce and Cindy signed, and action figures which Jackson and Rob signed. The kodaliths are actual production used elements that were filmed for TRON -- each measuring approximately 12" by 20". They were created from the 70mm film frame blow ups of "The Grid" (in the computer world) section of the movie -- which was shot in black and white. Matting masks were made to allow colors to show through in select places -- which created the color illumination effect of the circuitry. In essence, these are like original production cels that were created and filmed for an animated film. The kodaliths you will see in the video are from the iconic I/O Tower sequence with TRON and Yori.
And per my request, both Jackson and Rob kindly signed my action figures with quotes from their characters: "Vacate entry port program... I said move!" and "Rectify... Rectify... Games...!".
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