One of the most anticipated films of 2011 is “Tron Legacy,” the sequel to the 1982 sci-fi movie “Tron.” Disney didn’t disappoint fans during their 3-D panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday.

Filmmakers and members of the cast, including Jeff Bridges reprising his role as Kevin Flynn, introduced footage revealing that the story revolves around Kevin’s son Sam.

“I go on search for my father and find myself in this crazy world,” said actor Garrett Hedlund, who plays Sam Flynn.

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Since last year’s geek gathering, fans were teased by the return of Tron, the 1982 film that put Jeff Bridges into a live-action, CG hybrid that developed quite the cult following. 

A sequel is ready to give the fans what they want, and Disney’s Hall H panel provided a sampling of Tron 2‘s Light Cycle goodness. TRON producers Sean Bailey and Steve Lisberger greeted an enthusiastic crowd with concept art, kicking off with a first-look (in 3-D) at the new title treatment.

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Screencrave.com interview with Garrett Hedlund.

For Garrett and Olivia, what was your entry point to Tron? Was it something that you watched growing up?

Garrett Hedlund: It’s kind of unique how I did it because I was working on my first film and I’d ended up watching Tron for the first time in Malta on a balcony in an alley, and you sort of have this slight kind of instinct at some point. There’s something really going on about Watchmen and about working with all the guys, I was really excited that way, I was really moved when somebody introduced me, I was kind of — it was a great time and even more sort of surreal to be working with all these guys, it’s crazy for me.

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Thursday, July 23, Walt Disney Pictures will present unseen footage “Tron 2.0″ at San Diego Comic Con 2009, but before the panel takes place, producer Sean Bailey has shared interesting details about the forthcoming sequel. To MTV News, the executive producer of “Gone Baby Gone” insisted that this 1982′s film sequel will serve as a “stand-alone sequel”, but still stays true to the original.

“You don’t have to know the ’82 movie to come in and appreciate and enjoy this one,” Bailey explained. “That said, we accept what happened in the ’82 movie happened in ’82. Our movie is set in 2010. We built a mythology that spans the intervening 28 years of, ‘Here’s what we think happened with Kevin Flynn and with [nefarious software corporation] ENCOM and all those principle characters. Here’s what we think happened inside the Tron universe and in the real world.”

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TRON (title not final) (In Disney Digital 3D™)

TRON is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (GARRETT HEDLUND), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (JEFF BRIDGES), looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin’s loyal confidant (OLIVIA WILDE), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous.