By: Nathan Andrews, Editor
Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap!
Well, that’s at least what I was saying when I got done watching the brand new trailer for TRON: Legacy, the follow-up to the 1982 classic. Click on through for my impressions, and a link to all the trailery deliciousness.
Taking place in what appears to be modern-day, but what could also be sometime in the future, it appears that Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) has been missing for ~20 years. His son is looking for him, and a mysterious message from Flynn’s office leads him to a back-room which appears to have been used as a conduit between the ‘real world’ and the ‘game world’ in the past.
A counter on a desktop (think MS Surface) display shows more than 20 years. We don’t know what this means (could it be a counter from a significant date, the last time Flynn ‘jacked in’, who knows?), and it’s not revealed. We’re not left to think about it much, as the all-to-familiar laser scanner fires up, and we flash to the game world.
The rest of the trailer is mostly flashes of action and characters. Just enough to set up interest for future trailers, and the movie itself. What we do see, though, is a massively updated virtual world that makes the cutting-edge effects of the original seem downright quaint.
Every design is (wonderfully) updated. From the famous light suits and discs, to the menacing (in a delightful red-orange glow, of course) recognizers. As seen in the first teaser, the light-cycle update is nothing short of amazing.
If you’re even remotely a fan of the original flick, I HIGHLY recommend you check out this new trailer. Though be cautioned: It will only make you yearn for more. My only disappointment is that we’ll need to wait until December to finally get our eyes on it.
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