This week kicked off the first of Disney‘s Tron Nights where participating IMAX theaters will be featuring promotions for the upcoming sequel. Hoping they will have a hugely successful film on their hands, the screening of the 23 minutes worth of footage is all part of the Disney marketing machine to create extra buzz and make Tron: Legacy a box-office hit.
Whilst director Joe Kosinski has been showing of work-print’s to other filmmakers such as the Social Network director David Fincher to get feedback, the writers of Toy Story 3 were also brought in to create bookend scenes and help bolster the story. Feedback from bigger audiences also help producers see what is or isn’t working and whilst it’s quite common for press and industry to be invited to special screenings, it’s good for fans to get an early glimpse at the technology and visual spectacle.
Most of the scenes shown at the Tron Night were the extended versions from the trailers and events such as comic con. The screening began with the lights dimming to reveal the text introduction given in an old mainframe style which informed the audience of the five separate scenes and which would be in 3d.
For a full description of those featured head over to Sci-fi for a spoiler filled description.
The original Tron creator/director Steven Lisberger was at the Universal City screening in Los Angeles. He was spoken to by Screen Rant’s Paul Young who confirmed they are in the initial stages of planing a third movie:
We’re working on the development of it, we’re playing with storylines. It’s officially in development, but we don’t have a script [yet].
He was also asked why the themes of Tron have made it such a phenomena and why it inspires such a passionate response, he replied:
We all are “users,” we all have our avatar, and we spend so much time in that world, in terms of whatever we do, and it turns out that it really matters what happens in that world. I think that’s interesting, because for a long time people thought, ‘Well, this is all just a game, this is something that one dabbles in,’ and now it turns out that what you do in cyberspace can last forever. What you put in your social network, what emails you send…are you acting like a program or are you acting like a user?
For now check out the clip from the screening which shows Sam Flynn played by Garrett Hedlund meeting Olivia Wilde’s character Quorra. She’s part of the computer generated world of Tron who’s persona has a flirtatious innocence which lacks complex emotions that likely develop as the story progresses.
You can check out the scene here:
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