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In attendance: Jeff Bridges (“Kevin Flynn”), Garrett Hedlund (“Sam Flynn”), Olivia Wilde (“Quorra”), Michael Sheen (“Castor”), Bruce Boxleitner (“Alan Bradley”), Joe Kosinski (Director), Sean Bailey (Producer), Jeff Silver (Producer), Justin Springer (Producer), Steven Lisberger (producer and original director of TRON), Adam Horowitz (Writer), Eddy Kitsis (Writer), Eric Barba (Digital Domain)


“Comic-Tron” Press Conference


Olivia Wilde wasn’t even born when the original film came out but she knew about it through the video game and phenomena. Garret Hedlund who pays Sam Flynn didn’t even see the film until about 2003 when a friend overseas was amazed he had never seen it and made him watch.

The filmmakers pointed out that their movie is a father/son story which is why they concentrated on Flynn and didn’t bring back some of the other characters from the original.

Jeff Bridges heard about a Tron sequel for quite a while but gave up at it at first. He finally got a copy of the script that Disney had but Disney wasn’t satisfied with the script so they waited. Jeff is glad they did because the final product now is so much better. Then they got Joe to be at the helm of this film which he thinks was a great decision because he comes from an architect background and knew about all of the fancy technologies that they were going to use. This is a true 3D film that was completely filmed with two cameras and the effects have been finished for both eyes.

The difference between the first film and this film is that in the first film all they had to do was dream. This was before Virtual and Internet were common day vocabulary. It sounds like now, they are just matching the technology that is already out there…they’re not creating a new world…they making it more realistic.


There has been no date set for the blu-ray of the original Tron but they feel like they’re going to do something special. For the Tron: Legacy, they want to do the dvd and blu-ray in 3D so they’re hoping for greater penetration of 3D tvs in homes.


Jeff loves that people are so excited to see Tron again. Comic-Con wasn’t around during the first film but now it’s great to see all the fans get hyped up for the movie. Two years ago showing the effects test to Comic-Con was one of the reasons why the film got off the ground in the first place. Last year, when they showed the trailer, they got a huge response.


For the Tron virals on the internet, the crew went back to the original movie and made a timeline from then til now and tried to figure out how that would play out. Expect a lot more ads and virals coming your way up until the release of the movie in December.


Joe Kosinkski met up with Daft Punk really early in the process even before the effects test. They talked about how passionate they were towards Tron and got started on the music very early. They started making music over 2 years ago before they even started filming. They’re in the studio right now, as we speak, putting the finishing touches on the score. Olivia Wilde said that to get the feel of a scene, they would listen to a Daft track to get into the mood and she said that really helped.

Tags: Adam Horowitz, Bruce Boxleitner, Eddy Kitsis, Eric Barba, Garrett Hedlund, Jeff Bridges, Jeff Silver, Joe Kosinski, Justin Springer, Michael Sheen, Olivia Wilde, Sean Bailey, Steven Lisberger, Tron, TRON: Legacy

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