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Last summer I was lucky enough to join a small group of journalists in Vancouver to visit the set of ‘Tron: Legacy.’ It’s hard to say exactly how excited I am for the long-awaited follow-up to its groundbreaking but box office-deficient 1982 predecessor – perhaps it will suffice to reveal that I’m currently stretching out a pair of childhood ‘Tron’ Underoos to wear on opening day.
But even if being on this particular set weren’t personally fulfilling, it would no doubt be a professional highlight of the career of virtually any film journalist. An extensive exhibition of the production offices and department designs, followed by interviews with cast and crew members and, finally, a tour of the set itself, offered some of the most comprehensive and revealing behind-the-scenes looks in recent memory. And then there was meeting Daft Punk, although sadly there’s no photographic or audio evidence to confirm that particular personal moment of fulfillment.
While a list could probably climb into triple digits were I to parse out the secrets and slip-ups of the filmmakers (not to mention see the finished film), we’ve assembled a collection of 10 essential details we discovered on the set of ‘Tron: Legacy.’
1. ‘Tron: Legacy’ earns its subtitle precisely because it pays tribute to the landscape and mythology of the original film.
Producer Sean Bailey explained that any follow-up owed an enormous debt to the characters and universe writer-director Steven Lisberger created decades ago. “We felt like we owed, at least in my opinion, a few things: light cycles, Jeff Bridges, lit suits; and most important, I felt like when I went into that movie in 1982, as a kid I just remember the movie screen looking unlike any movie screen I’d ever seen before.”
2. When Bailey recruited first-time director Joe Kosinski to tackle the project, he did so with not only the blessing but also the active participation of original ‘Tron’ creator Steven Lisberger.
Lisberger, who plays a small role in the film, explained in the craft services tent why he declined to take on the follow-up himself. “After 30 years, I don’t want to compete with myself,” he said. “And technically, I am not on the level of Joe Kosinski. Joe has a network of people that he works with, and if I brought my network in, it would be a little bit like one of those Clint Eastwood movies where all the old guys go to space. [But] it’s a generational thing, which is that it’s almost as if Tron was waiting for you guys who were 10 when you saw ‘Tron’ One, to be 40 and have a 10-year-old kid that you could take to ‘Tron’ and say, this is what blew my mind and now I’m going to have it blow your mind.”
3. Jeff Bridges was game to reprise his role as game designer Kevin Flynn after hearing a pitch from Kosinski, but was particularly reassured after hearing that Lisberger would be around to keep things connected to the first film.
Bridges said that Kosinski showed him what he’d previously done, and what he wanted to do on Legacy. “He made this wonderful pitch on the story, where it was going, and that was intriguing to me,” he remembered. “[Then] he showed me his commercial reel. He’s out of commercials, and I saw some of the technology that he had available to him that he could use. The first [movie] was cutting-edge technology at that time, and this one certainly is for this time. And it’s a whole different way of making movies.”
Describing the 26-year span between the release of ‘Tron’ and the start of production on ‘Legacy,’ Bridges revealed that Lisberger’s unpredictability made the process feel like old times. “It seems like we had a long weekend, basically, because Lisberger is very involved in this one,” he said. “Which is great — having the source of the material still engaged. I think it gave us all a lot of pressure, because he’s such a wild cat, but it’s also kind of grounded in that first movie that was so unique and everything.”
Whoever said stay away from horizontal stripes wasn’t speaking to Hollywood’s pin thin youth.
This French Connection black and white horizontal-striped dress has made the rounds among the California starlets, starting with Olivia Wilde, who wore it to a French Connection store event back in February.
House hottie, who was recently voted sexiest actress of 2010 by Victoria Secret, kept eyes on the stripes with natural makeup, untouched hair and no jewelry.
Blonde reality stars, Paris Hilton and Stephanie Pratt, mimicked Wilde’s simple but chic style by dressing up the casual t-shirt dress with sexy black pumps and super straight locks.
Paris added extra accessories to her look — as she always does — with statement hoops, black tights, headband, clutch and even black nails.
All three starlets rocked this tight t-shirt frock, but who wore it better? Vote now and then check out which celeb was recently seen in a super sexy horizontal-striped bikini.?
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This December, moviegoers go back into the machine with “Tron: Legacy,”the sequel from Disney that will be one of the major projects-to-watch at this month’s Comic-Con International. At 11:15 a.m. on July 22, the film will be promoted with a star-studded panel in Hall H, the 6,500-seat room that is the standing-room-only hub of Comic-Con’s Hollywood programming. The panel will consist of director Joe Kosinski, producers Sean Bailey and Steven Lisberger as well as cast members Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Michael Sheen and Bruce Boxleitner. Patton Oswalt will moderate and there will be new footage from the film and, according to Disney, some special surprises.
Here at Portrait we’re planning our first ever issue dedicated entirely to beauty! We’ll be assembling a list of the most beautiful people in entertainment (and sport) and we want you to nominate (and ultimately rank) the people you think are the most beautiful. We’re not just talking physical beauty, we want you to rank on a whole range of topics such as…
So who’s your most beautiful – the easiest on the eyes, mind and heart?
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Last June, MTV News traveled up to Vancouver to visit the set of “Tron Legacy,” Disney’s 3-D stand-alone sequel to the 1982 sci-fi classic. Along with a select group of journalists, we toured the set, talked to cast and crew and immersed ourselves in all things “Tron.”
A studio-imposed embargo has now lifted and we can bring you another round of our “Tron Legacy” interviews. Here’s some of what the film’s leading lady Olivia Wilde had to say.
Question: Who do you play?
Olivia Wilde: I play Cora. I’m a close confidant of Jeff Bridges’ character, Flynn. Close personal confidant. That’s about all I can say without ruining it!
Question: Do you have your own entire storyline, or are you just there to support the men?
Wilde: Oh god, no! I’m not just there to support the men, which is what’s so fantastic about this film. I often say that, you know, the reason you see so many … actresses taking television roles is because there are more roles where you can play an independent woman, not just someone’s sister or girlfriend and it’s become rare in film, I think, to play an independent woman. This is one of the films where I get to do that. So, to answer your question, thank god no, I’m not just there!
Question: Were you familiar with “Tron” [before you joined the cast?]
Wilde: For me, “Tron” was something I always knew as a cool, retro, funky thing that I’d seen referenced in everything from music videos to television shows, either on “Family Guy” or… it had become kind of in the same wave of funky ’80s things coming back and being ironic for my generation. I feel that “Tron” was a huge part of that. I was only mildly aware of how revolutionary it really was for its time. About a year ago, when I started talking to [the producers] about doing this film, I became much more familiar with it. That’s when I really learned about it and became even more excited.
For the original “Tron” players, and we’re lucky to have many of them back in the film – it’s so cool – we’re constantly hearing stories from [Bruce] Boxleitner and Bridges and [Stephen] Lisberger about what they went through to make the originals and how unfamiliar they were with the terms. We were saying yesterday that everything from the term “program” to “bit,” these were terms that they were totally unfamiliar with. It sounded totally technologically advanced and foreign, and to us now, it’s every day lingo. I’m amazed that they were able to turn it into a story and something that was entertaining and funny at the time. I’m amazed that they were able to pull it off, and with far less resources.