Tron will be in TR2N

[ManaByte]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=51515

Bruce Boxleitner, who played Alan Bradley and the title character in Walt Disney Pictures' 1982 film Tron, is currently filming a role for the studio's upcoming Tron 2.0. He joins fellow original cast member Jeff Bridges and newcomers Olivia Wilde and Beau Garrett in the anticipated action-adventure.

In the original, hacker/arcade owner Kevin Flynn (Bridges) is digitally broken down into a data stream by a villainous software pirate known as the Master Control Program (MCP) and reconstituted into the internal, 3-D graphical world of computers. It is there, in the ultimate blazingly colorful, geometrically intense landscapes of cyberspace, that Flynn joins forces with Tron (Boxleitner) to outmaneuver the MCP that holds them captive in the equivalent of a gigantic, infinitely challenging computer game.

Though plot details are being kept under wraps, it is know that the new movie will act as the "next chapter." Wilde will play a worker in the virtual world who tries to help fight Master Control Program, while Garrett will play a siren in the virtual world.

[TVC15]

Is Wendy Carlos doing the soundtrack again? If not this is a terrible idea for a movie.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Please don't ever post again

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[DJ_Tet]

Holy crap, Wendy Carlos did Tron's ambient soundtrack too?


Amazing, amazing woman.  Has she scored any film recently?  I'd watch it just to hear her work.

[recursivelyenumerable]

whew, for a minute I thought they were actually calling it ... that which I can't bring myself to type

edit: omgwtf

[Eel O'Brian]

tron kind of sucked anyway

[TVC15]

Holy crap, Wendy Carlos did Tron's ambient soundtrack too?


Amazing, amazing woman.  Has she scored any film recently?  I'd watch it just to hear her work.

I think Tron was the last movie she did.  There's some story or other about her not particularly having a good time working on Tron, and she also got burned by WB on The Shining, although I don't know the details.

She did do 2 odds and ends collections a few years back that contains remastered and/or previously unreleased movie stuff she did.  I think some of her stuff from the Shining is in there.

[recursivelyenumerable]

Yeah, I read an interview with her in an old issue of Keyboard Magazine.  IIRC they didn't use a lot of her soundtrack or maybe just mixed it low?  She said the sound effects people had more pull with the production than she did, maybe because they actually worked at the studio, so the mix ended up favoring the sound effects over her music.

edit: oh here we go!  http://www.scribd.com/doc/3483445/The-Soundtrack-of-Tron-Interview

As often happens, Tron's director put the chief film mixer directly in charge of dermining how the soundtrack would be mixed.  Mike Minkler, a sound effects mixer by experience, was hired as the chief mixer, and brought in two of his relatives to assist with the mix.  During the actual mix, Wendy was still preparing the music tapes, and therefore could not attend the mixing sessions.  On the other hand a crew of twelve or so effects editors were still working, but they were close to the mixing stage, so they would drop in an ooh and aah every time one of their effects made it to the final mix.  [sound director]Fremer explains, "There was no strong musical spokesman on the dubbing stage.  It was a blueprint for disaster.  Instead of letting the music carry the emotions, they gave priority to the effects and mixed the music down or out.  It's too bad.  I believe that the film could have been stronger if the soundtrack had used more music and less effects, if the music were allowed to reach out and grab the emotions.

Of the original soundtrack album, Wendy says, "The record is true to what we want, whereas the film mix is not based on decisions that Annemarie or I made.  If you listen hard to the record, you may hear some of the patchwork that is a result of the work we had to do on the orchestra recording.  On the whole, however, we are satisfied with the way it turned out."