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.

A remake of Disney’s “Tron” is in the works, and they’ve signed a lead actor: Garrett Hedlund.

He’s had roles in “Troy,” “Friday Night Lights,” “Four Brothers,” and “Eragon,” and also starred opposite Lindsay Lohan, Jane Fonda and Felicity Huffman in “Georgia Rule.”
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There are a couple of new TRON updates. The sequel, due out in 2011, will reunite Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner nearly 30 years after the original, and will pair them with a trio of actors who weren’t even born when the first TRON was released.

We already knew that Olivia Wilde and Beau Garrett will be the eye candy, and now The Hollywood Reporter says that Garrett Hedlund will take over the lead role, playing “a man who finds himself pulled into the world of a computer and retracing the steps of a character from the original movie named Kevin Flynn.” Hedlund has appeared in Troy, Friday Night Lights, Four Brothers, and Death Sentence in recent years.

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Written By Josh Tyler

Tron 2.0 has a leading man! Yeah I know, I was hoping it’d be Boxleitner or Bridges too but let’s face it, they’re kind of old. They’ll be in the movie but HR says it’s a guy named Garrett Hedlund who will star.

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The Hollywood Reporter brings news that Garrett Hedlund (Georgia Rule and Four Brothers) beat out the likes of Ryan Gosling, Michael Stahl-David and Chris Pine for the lead role in Disney’s Tron for director Joseph Kosinski.

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Troy actor nabs lead role

BY James White Jan 7th 2009 8:08AM

Garrett Hedlund – still best known for Troy and Four Brothers – has landed the lead in Tron.The sequel –which has apparently ditched the awful Tr2n moniker – will see Hedlund’s character pulled into a computer and retracing the steps of Jeff Bridges’ Kevin Flynn.

Bridges is on board to play Flynn again, while Olivia Wilde and Beau Garrett recently won the two female lead roles.

Ryan Gosling

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hedlund beat the likes of Ryan Gosling (really? Gosling in a CG blockbuster?) Cloverfield’s Michael-Stahl David and current Captain Kirk Chris Pine to score the role.

Director Joseph Kosinski aims to start shooting in the spring.

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Up-and-comer Garrett Hedlund has landed the lead role in Disney’s upcoming sequel to the 1982 cult classic TRON, say the trades. The flick is being directed by Joseph Kosinski.

Hedlund will play a man who finds himself pulled into the world of a computer and retracing the steps of a character from the original movie named Kevin Flynn. Hedlund’s filmography includes Troy, Friday Night Lights, Eragon, Four Brothers and Death Sentence.

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Posted on Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 at 11:14 pm by: Peter Sciretta

Disney has finally announced the lead star for their upcoming Tron sequel. Garrett Hedlund, star of such films Friday Night Lights, Eragon, Georgia Rule, and Death Sentence, beat out Ryan Gosling, Chris Pine and Michael Stahl-David (Cloverfield) for the role.

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January 6, 2009
by Alex Billington

Apparently Olivia Wilde didn’t have the only Tron 2.0 news to report today. 24-year-old actor Garrett Hedlund has been cast as the lead in the highly anticipated sequel. Hedlund landed the role over other more notable actors like Ryan Gosling, Chris Pine, and Cloverfield’s Michael Stahl-David (who really needs another lead role). Additionally, the Hollywood Reporter is claiming that the title is now officially just Tron, without any numbers. Lastly, while Hedlund’s character’s name wasn’t revealed, it seems we might finally have an idea of what the sequel will be about based on the character description they gave.

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