<![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> Here's a bit of trivia for you...

Jessica Chobot (formally of Kotaku / now of IGN) has penned a screenplay with Steven Lisberger.

[www.slashfilm.com]

Also, here's an interview she did with Lisberger all about Tron.

[movies.ign.com]

(I am in no way associated/obsessed with IGN/Jess Chobot, although I wouldn't mind it if she licked my psp...)

FunkyJ

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> @FitJulie
I think it's fair to say that most, if not all, people who are posting comments here both got that joke and at least chuckled. Io9 is Nerditron. If you can't be a nerd here, you can't do it anywhere.


Belabras

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> @CaptainValiant: I forgot I have that too! You're right, it's nothing special. It was kind of fun to read, but it didn't change my life or anything.

Exposing my own nerdiness: early in the film, Flynn says "c'mon, you scuzzy data." As an adult, I heard that line and went "but wait! SCSI wasn't standardized until 1986!"

I'll show myself out.

Juliekins

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> I remember in the 'Making Of' featurette on the Tron DVD (and someone may have to correct me on this as I have lost the DVD) something about there being no such thing as a floppy then. To copy the information to another computer they had to make a huge printout, go to another computer and type it all in.

da5id_nz

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> I think I still have the Tron novelization around here somewhere. As I remember, it brings absolutely nothing new to the table.

Captain Valiant

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> @dunetiger: Sorry to burst your bubble, but the phrase IS "in like Flynn" as in Errol Flynn. The Flint movies just played of the phrase.

Tim Faulkner

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> I am so, so beyond stoked about the possibility of a sequel. You can count me among the folks who wound up with a career in IT because of this movie! I don't have the Laser Disc, but I do own the clamshell VHS, the original DVD, and the 20th anniversary DVD. My husband got Tron 2.0 for me for Christmas last year, although I haven't played it too much. I enjoyed what I did play, though. I'm not much of a gamer.

I watch it every now and again too, and incidentally my husband and I use it to test our our TVs. It was the movie that proved to me component cables actually make a difference over composite. :)

Juliekins

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> Seriously, you all should track down a copy of Tron 2.0 if you can. The humor and bloom graphics of the game are great.

For anybody in Portland, you can play BOTH Tron and Discs of Tron at Ground Kontrol.

jspaceman

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> I am SO glad I never saw the 'second Dark Crystal' film.
/gets out The Dark Crystal Laserdisk.


AmishJohn

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> @Belabras:
then i would have to make up for the mass with either another midget or a really skinny guy.

antimatty

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> I have somewhere around her an old Cinefex Magazine that shows Information Internationals Star Wars test images.

They created a full dogfight scene and were able to make the fighters look very much the models Lucasfilm created for efx.

George looked at their stuff and then told them to buzz off, then quietly started his own division to do the same thing.

dOk

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> @Antimatty - what if one of the twelve was a midget?

Belabras

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> i would kill as many as twelve people if it meant a sequel to tron.

antimatty

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> Greetings Programs:

Gimme gimme gimme gimme more TRON.

At first I laughed at some of the points of this movie, such as the converstational yet arcane CLI on the Apple-supplied computer equipment (am I the only one who noticed that in the establishing scene, Flynn was banging away on an Apple ///?):

The password sequence LSD 123 ... Reindeer Flotilla lives inscribed upon my brane.

I always thought there was another chapter to tell, and I'd love to see it. Bring it on.

ZehnKatzen

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> OMG, Flynn, do you read me? Those tanks reported you derezzed.

OK, I am really a big Tron dork and anything in the realm of a new Tron motion pictures makes me mess myself... repeatedly. I too devoured EVERYTHING Tron as a kid. Tron, Maze-A-Tron on the Intellivision, Tron Deadly Discs, Discs of Tron (coolest arcade game EVER).

Shot out to Meepszor and Flynn - I hear ya, pals. Tron is my fav too... I understand brothers... I understand...

Tr0n

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> Sorry, I just had to chime in. :)

Also, I know where there is an in tact Discs of Tron that I have my greedy little eyes on.

Anyway, this movie is the reason I work in games today. Nothing fed the imagination of my 10-year-old mind like this movie. Nothing. If they make a sequel and go all Highlander 2 with it, heads will roll.

Flynn

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> The two TRON video games are available to download on the Xbox 360: the controls aren't as good as the arcade, but they are still fun.

vjmurphy

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> @92BuickLeSabre: Is there no end to the madness. Fairly soon this is going to turn into a six degrees of kanye west fiasco.

And either/or, as far as Wendy and Lisa are concerned. They were great with Prince, and remain great without. For them then, "in this bed I scream."

zenpoet

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> Because of this movie and the impact it had on me as a kid (it sparked my creative gene, I suppose), I've always changed the phrase, "In Like Flint" to "In Like Flynn" because Flynn was able to use his tank program to hack stuff. I love it. Granted, his program takes a faceplant at the beginning of the movie, but I've always imagined that Flynn and his hacking software had many adventures.

dunetiger reads kotaku, seems pleased

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> I loved Tron and Tron 2.0 they need to make another game from that universe.

Thanatos

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> Hah! Just watched bits of this last night. A ladyfan and I were comparing dvds, and we both have 20th anniversary widescreen copies, but she had never seen Mickey OR Pac-Man.

Devo-Chu

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> I heart Tron.

More postings about Tron, please.

Welt am Draht

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> How can I be the first to mention [www.tron-sector.com] ?

TRON 2.0 is actually one of the best PC games I've played in awhile. The mesh of FPS and RPG elements kicked butt.

There is also the Slave Labor Graphics comic book, taking place after the events of TRON 2.0 It's a decent read, and visually very appealing.

As to the movie sequel, I'll believe it when I see it. There is so much potential for greatness, or total suckitude, that I just don't want to think about it until it's more concrete.

Belabras

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> I thought it was gay...but in the good way. Anyway, if they remake it, or sequelize it, I hope the environment takes on a much more interesting level of complexity. The spandex thing is only good on hot women.

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> @zenpoet: Wendy and Lisa as they are now, doing scoring for Heroes?

Or Wendy and Lisa from back when Prince was on Appolonia?

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> @Garrison Dean: I am the bad penny. I am the root beer burp. I am the cold sore.

I am eternal!

Oh, and if it was Wendy and Lisa, then I would go for the remix.

And what can beat Journey? Steve Perry solo! "But I should've been gone!"

zenpoet

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> "...but can you imagine one of these [Recognizers], on fire, and piloted by a Sleestak? Holy hell."

A Sleestak in clown makeup.
While the Jaws theme plays in the background.

steven522

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> Tron was my first official "Fanboi" film. I own an original Laserdisc copy of the movie as well as a VCR copy, a bootleg VCR copy, 2 DVD copies, and I'm waiting for the Bluray release (well, if it ever comes out). My friend had a copy of the movie, and I used to go over to his place at least once a week and watch it. It facinated the hell out of me. The movie sustained me throughout my childhood and motivated me to pursue gaming and computer animation when these things weren't really an option in college.

Here's hoping for a sequel on the big screen, with the way computer graphics have evolved I hope they maintain the style used in the original as much as possible.

Tron 2.0 was great as well, probably the best use of the disc weapon in a video game.

Android8675

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> @zenpoet: YOU DIRTY SON OF A B.. haaa. good one. You know he'll contribute to the soundtrack. a Wendy Carlos remix. he's better than Journey, thats for sure.

Garrison Dean, Mr. Privilege

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> To be fair, Alan Bradley DID ask if the laser could send him to Hawaii, so I guess he did have some teleportation ideas.

GenXCub

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> @92BuickLeSabre: I cannot get my wife to watch it either, though she had heard of it. I actually, on occasion, put the DVD in at night and fall asleep to it, as for some reason I find its beauty and simplicity soothing.

@Garrison Dean: I think its the complete lack of Kanye West lyrics. Haha, see how I brought it back? Once in, never out.

zenpoet

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> I can't believe they didn't mention that this is Al Gore's favorite movie.

If not for Tron, we wouldn't have the internet or global warming.

/kidding, obviously

GORF

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> TRON. Oh man,love it. It's one of the few DivXs I keep on disk AND permantently on my media hard drive. Syd Mead is probably one of the most visionary designer/illustrators the world has ever seen. Most of his art gives me the chills, it captures emotion and place as well as technology. Still pissed that the Star Wars folks never gave credit where credit is due and admitted to stealing the whole Walker/ATAT concept from him. The fact that his original illustration has these walker moving in the snow is just coincidence, right?

Mario's Pants

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> @SuperPope: Hey, they digitized it, then made it reappear. That's what they do on Star Trek. Just beam your "stored digital pattern" somewhere. That's teleportation in my book!

Kevin Kelly

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> @SunZhiQian: Thank you. Thank you.

Kevin Kelly

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> Um... Tron is my favorite movie of all time. I dream in Tron-world. I became and IT guy because of Tron. I take a Tron lunch box to work every day.

MeepsZoR

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> @NefariousNewt: i agree. they'll go all Matrix and it will suck.

OR, our prayers come true and they shoot for a nostalgic look and it could be lovely.

or, they could pull a LUCAS on this and on The Dark Crystal Sequel and on all my childhood joys.

I actually got excited about the Clone Wars TV "trailer" on the SW site until i remembered that George Lucas RUINS EVERYTHING HE TOUCHES.

the TRON sequel will suck.

DSTRYA

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> Ooh, waaaay cool... I just watched the clip with the sound down, while my iPod was playing; completely unintentionally, Daft Punk's "Alive" started playing just as the computer started scanning Bridges...

Frozen-Tex

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> For the record, my lady went with me to go see Tron at the El Capitain in LA and loved it. Big Screen always helps.

Garrison Dean, Mr. Privilege

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> @92BuickLeSabre: Haha, dude.. key part of your sentance -SHE- had never heard of Tron.

Garrison Dean, Mr. Privilege

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> I'll see this sequel, and Real Genius 2.

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> Sequel? Sure, just don't put Jeff Bridges into one of those suits again. Or Boxleitner. Please.

Frozen-Tex

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> @NefariousNewt: Where did we go wrong?
I couldn't even get her to love Kanye/DP/Tron.

(Although my wife gets points from me for loving LOTR - and if I were going to prioritize her loving any particular trilogy, that would be my choice.)

I guess I'll be seeing this hypothetical(ly awesome) sequel alone.

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> About the teleporting orange thing. I've always wondered if there were programs standing around in the cyberworld when all of a sudden an orange popped into existence. They would look at it puzzledly before it popped out again when it got reassembled in the Encom lab. That thought has always made me chuckle.

Marcus

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> @DSTRYA: But a lot of what makes Tron such a classic is its simplicity. I see a future version rife with CGI, that would kill the charm of the story.

NefariousNewt

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> The orange was "digitized", not teleported. It was turned into data and somehow materialized inside the computer, not sent to a different location in actual space. Nevermind that the whole concept is absurd (turning something physical into a metaphorical construct on a computer screen?). Tron is still one of my favorite movies of all time.

SuperPope

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> @92BuickLeSabre: I basically can't get my wife to watch any science fiction. She laughs a lot at Star Wars.

NefariousNewt

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> @NefariousNewt: i'm tempted to agree, but i would love to get some more TRON. plus, if they made a sequel, there's a chance they would re-release the original, and a digitally projected big-screen TRON would be heaven right about now.

DSTRYA

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> 1. TRON is simply one of the most beautiful-looking movies i've ever seen, and i think most successfully captures the alien "otherness" of science fiction without making it overly gritty OR dated-looking. Bravo on these snippets.

2. the recognizers also make an awesome sound. I'd say that overall the sounds of TRON are as good as the visuals.

DSTRYA

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> The redundant part below is redundant.

in 1977 he and his partner Donald Kushner set up an animation studio in 1977 to start developing the film.

Sincerely,
Grammar Police

SunZhiQian

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> One of the first big arguments my now-wife and I had was over Tron.

My roommate and I were shocked that she had never even heard of Tron.

She was shocked that we could be so Americanmiddleclasswhiteteenageboysofthe80s in our worldview of what was and what was not shocking or assumable about other people's experiences.

She expressed her shock more eloquently than we had expressed ours. I, chastened, fell in love.

...but to this day I can't get her to watch Tron when it comes on...."Oh, Tron is on TV? Oh don't worry hunny, I know what Tron is. It's so awesome that everybody knows Tron."

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> @Garrison Dean: Let's hope so. Plus he's attached as a producer.

Kevin Kelly

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> @NefariousNewt: I don't think that Steve Liesberger would mess with the plot that much, but I do worry that they will go overboard with the design because they can now. Keep it simple, do the same look as before just use computers to make it easier on yourself and maybe increase the scope a little.

Garrison Dean, Mr. Privilege

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> Love this movie. Anyone in Seattle should know that it is playing at the Cinerama in a couple weeks. Very very cool on the big screen. And you can really see the Micky Mouse head clearly.

Garrison Dean, Mr. Privilege

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> Sequel?

yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes
yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes

End of line.

gybryant

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> A sequel? What, the MCP is recovered from a dusty tape drive somewhere and seeks revenge via the Internet? The teleportation machine has fallen into the hands of terrorists, and only Flynn can stop them?

Sorry, but the minute I hear an idea like this, I get scared. Leave Tron alone.

NefariousNewt

]]> <![CDATA[Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron]]> Classics never die. Cult Classics like Tron.. If you've never seen them, you should die.
But I'm still sore that Tron 2.0 never came out on a decent system.

Wookiee1

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