Back to Tron, and other morsels from Comic-Con

By Borys Kit

Comic-Con -- The first full day of Comic-Con featured the usual: screaming fans, studio pushes and ... Tron? Pretty much right after Disney unveiled its "Escape to Witch Mountain sequel, the studio slipped in some footage of a potential reboot of the 80's fx title (only this time it's called Tr2n). After the Witch footage, the Disney castle logo came up and soon enough, a race on those light cycles was under way/ Essentially, it was a redone version of a well-known sequence from the 1982 pic. The scene, from director Joseph Kosinski, is actually test footage to see how feasible a remake. The topper was the reveal of one of the drivers: none other than Jeff Bridges, who could be to be reprising his role from the original. The footage blew many away. "That was a sweet surprise, said one industry exec. "It's not very often that you get to see something that you don't know about."

Comments

[Jason]

Somehow I kind of doubt Bridges will be reprising his role if it's a remake. He's almost a senior citizen. This was probably done simply for publicity. If there really is a remake in the works, perhaps he'd play a different role. Perhaps the grizzled I/O beam keeper that Tron encounters. If it's a true sequel, then he'd probably reprise his role.

[Napoleon Solo]

Why can't Jeff Bridges reprise his role? It's a computer game in which anything is possible.

Personally, I'd like him to play the exact same character. And I think he will be in it.

[Rob T Firefly]

"Somehow I kind of doubt Bridges will be reprising his role if it's a remake."

That's just.. like.. your opinion, man.

[Rob]

If they can aim to keep the sequel as close as possible in style to the original (in terms of visuals, sound, music, etc) then this will be great. If they ramp this up to be a PG-13 mess, then it will flop.