‘TRON’ Sequel Gets New Face, Old Name

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.

The Hollywood Reporter also reports that Bridges’ character, the aforementioned Flynn, will now be the CEO of a software company, which seems like a natural progression. Oh, and apparently, the film is dropping the number in its title. There was the unwieldy TR2N, but now it will just be TRON. Like Weezer has a blue album and a green album both called Weezer, I guess.

And Wilde is giving an update of her own, sort of. Jokingly calling herself “a cone of silence,” she did talk a bit about the advancements in the new TRON during a recent Sci-Fi Wire interview. And I have to tell you, she sounds fairly learned on the subject:

“[T]he film will be just as impressive for our time as it was in 1982 for the original. The technological advances have, of course, been enormous, and the effects that we have access to have been so revolutionary. We saw an incredible advancement in technology with the use of the face replacement in Benjamin Button, and I think that is marking some of what’s to come, and certainly…in the direction of TRON, just as far as people being incredibly innovative and taking huge steps forward as far as using technology to create alternative realities.”

Wow. OK then. We’ll look forward to that.

Finally, in case you’re wondering how much this is all going to cost, The Reporter estimates a $150 million budget for Disney’s ambitious sequel.

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