Tron Returns with Jeff Bridges and Stupid Name
Posted at 11:04 AM Jul 25, 2008
At yesterday's Disney panel—where the main event was the Rock-starring Return to Witch Mountain, which, by all accounts, is surprisingly not terrible—attendees got a special look at Tron 2, which has the tragically stupid title of Tr2n. (Numbers aren't vowels, people, and the number 2 is especially not an "O".) Ridiculous title aside, not only where the visuals good—a nice mix of today's technology and a retro-throwback to computer graphics circa 1982, but it turns out Jeff Bridges will be starring in the damn thing! /Film has a run down of the trailer, which I won't copy because 1) that would be rude and 2) I'm really lazy.
How awesome is Jeff Bridges? He doesn't need the money, and he sure doesn't need to star in some 25+ year old sequel to a goofy kids' sci-fi flick he was in before he was a star. But he's willing to do so, and there's about a 2000% chance that the movie will at least be pretty good, thanks entirely to him. You're a good man, Bridges! And thanks for riding that Segway in Iron Man, because it was fucking hilarious.
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Iron Man, Rob, Iron Man! That's where the absolutely hilarious Segway scene was taken from. Bridges was actually more imposing on that thing than inside the Iron Monger armor.
Posted 07/25/2008 at 08:21:04 AMJesse - Erg. Corrected. When I was writing, I was thinking Incredible Hulk and remembered it was Iron Man, but still managed to write down Hulk anyways. Nuts.
Posted 07/25/2008 at 08:24:56 AMThe Hulk flick needed a lot more Jeff Bridges on a Segway, though. That's probably what was running through your mind.
Posted 07/25/2008 at 08:29:43 AMHe's a conscientious objective. He's fragile. And yes, he abides.
Posted 07/25/2008 at 09:12:32 AMI'm no Tron nut, but that sounds pretty damn cool. Maybe now we'll get some good action figures.
Posted 07/25/2008 at 09:52:55 AMThat title makes me want to pronounce it "Ter-too-en".
Clearly they should've named the film 2RON if they had to get all silly with the numbers.
Posted 07/25/2008 at 10:28:47 AMI don;t know how many of you have seen this bootleg footage of the trailer, but after seeing it, I say they can put the 2 wherever the fuck they want. TRO2, T2ON, I don't give a rat's ass. Just give me more evil biker Lebowski.
Posted 07/26/2008 at 06:27:32 PM