A Few Bits and Bytes Regarding Tron 2.0
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AICN scored some details on the Tron 2.0 plot, along with the happy news that they’re going to likely call it Tron: Something-or-Other, and not Tr2n or 2ron or Tron Squared or any of the other goofy named that have been floating around since the teaser footage of evil virtual Jeff Bridges premiered at last year’s SDCC. Now here’s the deal, and consider this your SPOILER WARNING if you prefer to remain ignorant.
Apparently Flynn made a few more awesome videogames, had a kid, and disappeared. Now, Flynn’s semi-grown-up son heads to ENCOM, run by Alan Bradley (a.k.a. Bruce Boxleitner, a.k.a. mother-fucking Tron, a.k.a. the Box) to get some answers. Those answers of course involve Mini-Flynn into getting sucked into a videogame, where a corrupt file of CLU (that’s Flynn’s handle in Tron-world; also why they needed to make a digital copy of young Jeff Bridges) has pulled a Master Control and rules the virtual world. And then there are light jets, light cycles versus light jets, and big-ass disc fight.
I. Am. Pumped.
Seriously, other than why Jeff Bridges was evil and red, there isn’t much crazy info in here. A big disc fight? I could’ve called that. But man, there is something deep in my shriveled nerd-heart that makes me utterly, totally stoked about a Tron sequel, regardless of all common sense.
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