Potential TR2N Code Has Just Popped Up

Tron Hey all. Merrick with Aint It Cool News put this one up this morning. Some fun, juicy info for all you TRON fans out there (myself included). For those of you that are out of the loop, TRON was a movie released by Disney back in 1982. It stared Jeff Bridges as a screwed-over computer programmer looking to find evidence of the wrong-doings so he can get his job back. He ends up getting abducted into the mainframe & has to fight his way out, in the process getting the info he had been trying to hack into while he was in the real world. Rumors of a sequel had been floating around for a long time but only in the last year or so have they actually made strides to get it made. It was directed & co-written by Steven Lisberger. The sequel will be directed by first-timer Joseph Kosinski & yes, Jeff Bridges will return as the out-of-work hacker, Kevin Flynn. Hit the jump for the rest of the story, but beware of the spoilers if you’re sensitive to that sort of thing:

The title will almost certainly NOT be TRON 2 or TR2N. Possibly something hyphenated TRON: ________.

The story takes place approximately 25 years after the original.

The movie starts in 1989. Kevin Flynn (Bridges) has created some of the world’s top selling games based on his Game Grid challenges in the first film, and has marketed the hell out of what he saw there (action figures, Recognizer night lights, yadda yadda yadda).

Flynn has a seven year old son named Sean.

Flynn disappears, leaving behind his son.

Alan Bradley (Boxleitner) takes over Flynn’s company (ENCOM).

Jump forward in time: Sean is now twenty something.

Alan Bradley has info that leads Sean to look for Flynn.

Search takes Sean to Flynn’s old arcade – mothballed.

Into the computer world goes Sean.

There’s a CLU character (Flynn’s computer alter-ego from the first film).

Flynn has programmed CLU to run around and make a better computer world, but CLU’s gone corrupt and is creating his own interpretation of that perfect world. This is why CLU (young Bridges) is being such a punk-ass in that Comic Con footage we saw.

CLU has it out for a kind of program called ISOs & wants to eradicate them.

The ISOs believe Sean Flynn is the one who will free them from CLU’s belligerence.

Somewhere in the computer world, the real Kevin Flynn is whizzing around in a classic Light Cycle. Will we help in the battle against CLU?

Light Jets have jet walls, too.

Light Cycles versus Light Jets.

Big Disc battle!

Bridges going all out for this role. Embracing it. Fans will go gaa gaa.

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