He’s been he’s been a video game character, an alien, a country singer, and even “the dude”. But Jeff Bridges really has his work cut out for him in his next role. He’s just signed up to play exorcist Master Gregory, aka “The Spook”, in the new Warner Brothers picture The Seventh Son. The film is an adaptation of Joseph Delaney’s young adult series “The Last Apprentice”. The film will also star young hottie, and Oscar Nominee for Winter’s Bone, Jennifer Lawrence (Below).
Bleeding Cool spotted an interesting listing on Amazon:
According to the listing, Tron: Legacy Reconfigured [above] will feature “various” artists. This may just be placeholder info, though, and my hunch is that this will actually be a remix album of some kind, something that will see Daft Punk revisit and rework their compositions with freedom, liberated from having to match the on-screen mood and action.
We loved this Daft Punk score. So this sounds like something right up our alley. We bet it will be up your alley as well. We hope BC are right in their prediction.
We feel that the best summary of Tron Legacy’s opening weekend performance came from Box Office Mojo:
Tron Legacy raked in $44 million on approximately 5,600 screens at 3,451 locations, more than doubling the opening weekend gross of Speed Racer and posting initial attendance comparable to past December release The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008). Those may sound like low hurdles, and one could point out how Tron Legacy fell short of Avatar’s $77 million first weekend or the Star Trek reboot’s $75.2 million. But Tron Legacy had a greater uphill battle than those titles, given the potential niche appeal of its techno-fantasy premise and the status of its 1982 predecessor. Legacy appears to have sold around two and a half times the number of tickets that the original Tron did in its first weekend.
Emphasis ours. And we emphasize that for a reason. Because it proves that the attraction of Tron has grown in last twenty years. Thus, the decision to make a sequel wasn’t misguided.
More exciting video featurettes about the upcoming film Tron Legacy!
See more Tron vids after the jump ….
Enjoy this brand new featurette outlining some of the design challenges involved in bringing Tron: Legacy to the screen!
This new trailer for Tron: Legacy is party of a Nokia viral campaign. You’ll notice the Nokia N8 is featured in the trailer. But this trailer also allows you to see some longer clips of the de-aging tech used on Jeff Bridges. It isn’t seamless. You can tell it’s an effect. But, still, it’s quite impressive.
We want to see this movie, like, now!
And this is fun. Here’s a shot from the trailer of the digitally de-aged Jeff Bridges:
This is the lightcycle sequence discussed here. But not the other teaser we discussed. That one has yet to be officially released by Disney.
At a panel at the San Diego Comic-Con new information was revealed about Tron Legacy the sequel to the 1982 film Tron. The highlight were two teaser trailers, and the reveal of some conceptual art.
The first teaser (not available on the Internet yet) shows Garrett Hedlund as “Sam Flynn” (the son of Kevin Flynn, the character Jeff Bridges played in Tron) entering his father’s dilapidated arcade. The place is covered in dust and all the games are hidden beneath plastic sheets. Sam hits the electricity and the games spring to life.
The Tron game, with its big neon logo, attracts Sam’s attention. He moves over to it. He puts a quarter in the game, but it doesn’t work. Then he notices some grooves in the floor. He pulls the game away from the wall, revealing an entrance. He walks in. The teaser ends.
They also showed a second teaser which was a more detailed version of the lightcycle sequence they debuted at last year’s Comic-Con. See that teaser here. It’s very cool.
Jeff Bridges, who will be reprising his role in the sequel, had this to say about the project:
The first Tron, when we made that, there was no Internet,” he said. So what you saw was so new and fresh. I can guarantee you’re going to get that same pop with this one. Everything is going to be superized.
While the film’s director Joe Kosinski had this to say:
We’ve probably got three or four things in this movie that have never been done before, and we’re doing them all at the same time. I promise you that next year at Comic-Con you’ll see some things you haven’t seen before.
Below is an edited video of most of the conceptual art they displayed:
