In the summer of 1982, Walt Disney Pictures released TRON. The action-adventure science fiction film, about a gifted computer soft engineer and hacker, played by a then 32 year old and future Academy Award winning actor Jeff Bridges (2009 – Best Actor, Crazy Heart), gets literally abducted into the digital world itself was a box office success, grossing $33 million in the U.S. alone. Twenty three years later, Disney announced a sequel to TRON, with Bridges reprising his role as Kevin Flynn, and in 2010, TRON: Legacy was finally released. Directed by first time director Joseph Kosinski, the film tells the story of Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund – Friday Night Lights, Four Brothers), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of missing computer software engineer Kevin Flynn (Bridges), goes looking for him but ends up being transported into the digital world where he finds himself in the same situation that his father did in the original film, and is also the same place where Kevin was being held for twenty long years. The film also stars Olivia Wilde (TV’s House) as program and adept warrior Quorra, Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon), who went and saw the first film at age twelve, as the vivacious and renowned program Castor, James Frain (TV’s The Tudors) as chief intelligence officer and Clu’s right hand program Jarvis, Beau Garrett (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer) as program siren Gem, and Bruce Boxleitner (TV’s Babylon 5) reprising his role as Kevin Flynn’s close friend and executive consultant for ENCOM International Alan Bradley. I have heard of the original film since as long as I can remember and I’ve never seen it, but when I went to see the sequel, which was in REAL 3D of course, I really enjoyed it. I loved the music that Daft Punk did for the film. After this movie was filmed at Burnaby’s Canadian Motion Picture Park Studios and in around Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in the spring of 2009 with a budget of $170 million, TRON: Legacy took the #1 spot its opening weekend when it was finally released on December 17th, 2010, with a gross of $44,026,211. With incredible visual effects and terrific electro music by Daft Punk, I make TRON: Legacy a definite must see for all movie lovers and its one of the best films I’ve seen in 2010.
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