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Sequel to TRON Coming Down the Wire

Posted by michael on from the lightcycle dept.

farrellj writes: "According to SF Wire, TRON is going to be released in a 20th anniversary DVD release...and they are working on a sequal, TRON 2.0. The DVD will be released Jan 15, 2002. There is also a new game in development too!" The rumors have been circulating for years. Maybe they'll get Lucy Lawless to demonstrate the proper application of a spinning disk.

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  1. Tron games by AirLace · · Score: 4
    For those who can't wait for the official release, there are some great GPL'd tron games out there, based on the lightcycle scene:
    • glTron - Probably the most mature 3D tron game. Features network playing and themes
    • Obviously Multiplayer Tron - New project, really unstable.
    • Armagetron - Came out when development of glTron became very slow. Best multiplayer support, but glTron's graphics are better.

    Wonder if the makers of the official Tron game will go after the developers of these games for trademark infringement. It's a crazy world.
  2. DVD edition = soundtrack on CD? by gilroy · · Score: 4

    I wonder if this means Disney will finally get off theif duffs and authorize Wendy Carlos to do a remastered CD version of the soundtrack. Tron had a, well, different sound to it which I happened to have enjoyed. Yet despite the techno-intense nature of the movie, the music has never been released in digital. :(

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  3. Don't buy it! by SocialWorm · · Score: 4
    I find it ironic that a movie that touches, albiet lightly, on corporate culture should be released in the format of corporate control. DVDs from the big movie industry players are pure economic poison, regardless of their content -- not unlike an toxin-infused envelope. This movie may be marketed as Tron, but it should carry a warning that it's really a vote against freedom, a vote for the DMCA, and, by association, a vote to keep Dimitry in prison.

    Standing up to these megalomanaics is worthy of a movie in and of itself, but if we don't, we could all find ourselves against the powerful systems, both legal and computer, of the MIAA and its allies.

    Besides, do you really want to support these people in their quest to make Tron 2.0, which has "An ambitious hacker transports himself into cyberspace to pull off the ultimate hack." for a tagline? Even if nothing else written here convinces you to boycott the release of Tron on DVD, that almost certainly should. Yuck, awful -- just what we need, another bad "hacker flick" (almost certainly what's intended, given today's climate).

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  4. A big budget might ruin it by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5
    One thing that made movies like the original Star Wars, Mad Max and Tron stand out was the spartan ambiance that came with a (relatively) low budget. As it happened, that ambiance worked well with the screenplay and acting for these movies; that's why these movies are still talked about while dozens of others from that time are forgotten.

    Twenty or so years later, they redo Star Wars (largely on the same planet) with a big budget and too many visual distractions and not enough focus on the story... and it doesn't work. There was nothing special about it compared to all of the other computer-effects scifi movies out there today. I fear the same thing will happen to this sequel.