Comic-Con 2010: Tron Legacy New Footage Breakdown

Tron is a film birthed from Comic-Con.

Seriously, how many years in a row is this retro revamp going to own the Con? First they swept everyone up with their VFX test, then they come back and have our synapses firing faster than a lightcycle across the game grid, and now they're back to wallop us one more time before the film!

And wallop they did. Here's what we saw (Spoilerish):

It opens on a GIANT recognizer (the spaceship sort of things you've seen in the previous trailers) facing us down. Sam Flynn is riding up the elevator saying, "This isn't good." Guards with digitzed voices (no relation to JJ's Star Trek) approach him, and Sam yells, "I'm not a program!"

Sam is taken hostage inside the Recognizer, force fields clamping in his feet. The guards grumble about "the games". Sam asks the guards if they've heard of Kevin Flynn. "Keep quiet if you want to live," they respond. We see the expansive world of Tron City. Sam Flynn: "He did it." The Recognizer continues to zoom along the digital world, eventually stopping, detaching its top and elevatoring down ("wooooaaaah" goes the crowd).

A guard selects programs for the games. He selects Sam and another program, who jumps to his death to escape, derezzing into thousands of digital shards (Hoffman: "I feel bad for enjoying a man's suicide, but it looks pretty cool"). Sam's taken into a white/grey room where he encounters four sexy, vinyl-clad women. The women disintegrate his street clothes and morph the Tron outfit onto him. He's given an identity disc.

They lead him up towards a bright light (Pit Cell, anyone?) and he goes up a bubble-like elevator where he reaches a stadium filled with a zillion cheering fans. We see Michael Sheen as Castor who is welcoming people. Daft Punk is spinning in the DJ booth.

Then a montage: lightcycles, disc games, some sort of winged people...things. Hoffman says it best: "colors flying in my face like Mark Rothko paintings come to life". Finally, Sam goes head-to-head with Clu. Sam gives a, "Dad?". Clue: "I'm not your Dad, Sam, but I'm glad you're here." The footage cuts to Sam jumping into a black void...and a light jet forming and swooping away.

OK, take a deep breath.

And a few classic soundbites to go with it:

• Jeff Bridges plays two characters: Kevin Flynn and Clu, who appears as Kevin Flynn's 35-year-old self.
• Patton Oswalt refers to Avatar as "cheap piece of junk - this is a good 3D system." Dis.
• Bridges called acting in Tron, "Psychedelic," solidfying him as the actual "Dude".
• Garrett Hedlund went through Parkour training. Every geeky woman in Hall H swoons (including Jordan Hoffman).
• Michael Sheen: Tron Legacy is in 4D - Jeff Bridges brings extra dimension of awesome.
• Skywalker Sound recorded the Hall H crowd chanting "DE-REZ" and will use the audio in the film!

And here's the brand new trailer!

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