TRON: Legacy arrives in stores today, and to mark the occasion, here’s an exclusive “Making Of” video about the recreation and evolution of the original movie’s most memorable vehicle-geekery: The light cycles.
This month’s blockbusting hit Tron: Legacy is something of a cult phenomenon – a phenomenon that glows in the dark. Special effects supervisor Eric Barba was kind enough to talk us through the mind-bending, CGI world of Tron, spilling the secrets behind the magic of our favorite scenes.
Getting to direct TRON: Legacy, the highly anticipated sequel to the cult classic computer programmer movie TRON, as your first major motion picture is the task that most fan boys and girls would do anything for. While you do have to worry about angering half of the nerd world if you screw up, the fact [...]
From defending the world from invaders of the third kind to trying race down that road, arcade games have had their place in entertainment history and in our hearts.
This is not quite a full review here. I’ve read other TRON: Legacy reviews out there, and am more intrigued about the dialogue that’s starting to take shape. There are a handful of spoilers below, but my intention here is not to give the game away, merely to talk about what it all means. Come [...]
Is there something you’re dying to know about Jeff Bridges, star of the original TRON and The Big Lebowski? Perhaps you want to know how the Dude stays cool after all these years or whether or not that character is just a movie persona (something tells us not)? What it’s like to don a TRON [...]
Tron: Evolution
Welcome to the Loadout. Our philosophy is that the working week is a recurring boss battle that you’ll need the proper weapons to take down. The supplies at hand won’t always be pretty but you might just be able to hold out until the weekend. Green means add it to your arsenal, yellow leaves it [...]
Here’s yet another new trailer (This one, for British audiences) for next month’s Tron: Legacy, this time setting up all the backstory you need to understand Disney’s revival of the 20+ year franchise and, in the process, giving the best look we’ve had so far at the CGI-deaged Jeff Bridges… and I have to admit: [...]
Disney is doing everything it can to make sure that Tron is everywhere, it seems. In addition to next month’s Tron: Legacy in movie theaters, the current Marvel Comics Tron mini-series and specially-themed Tron covers, the high-end Tron merchandise and Tron: Evolution videogame, the House of Mouse yesterday announced a new animated series, Tron: Uprising [...]
Excited about next month’s Tron: Legacy? Excited enough to buy some of the 150+ licensed products that Disney has partnered with various manufacturers to spin off from the movie? The Hollywood Reporter has images of some of the swag as part of a story on the costuming in the movie, but I can’t get past [...]
