Tron was an under performer at the box office on its release. Like many cult classics though with hindsight it can be appreciated in a different light. Pre-dating Gibson's Neuromancer by 2 years, Tron tells the tale of hackers battling inside a computer system to free it from the control of a meglomaniacal corporation with an AI behind them.. Sound familiar? Writer and Director Steven Lisberger, along with artisitc help from the likes of Moebius and Syd Mead, produced a Sci-Fi classic. VFXpro have a good article entitled Tron Revisited which takes an indepth look behind the scenes of its making. Steven Lisberger is currently reported to be working on Tron 2.0 for Disney, lets hope it lives up to the standards set by its forebear..
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Cool as it is, Tron skates a thin line between fun and farce in places (if I remember correctly). So if these freak-ass folks had made it to the final cut they'd have tipped it over the edge, no question :)
Posted by Anonymous on 14 Jul 2001 at 06:48 PM
The same site also has images of the missing love scene which Disney chose mercifully not to include.
Posted by Anonymous on 14 Jul 2001 at 06:56 PM
Seems very similar to the lovescene in George Orwell's 1984 if you ask me!
Posted by Jonny Ram on 15 Jul 2001 at 05:53 PM
They only need to include the lightcycle scenes and that'll be more than enough to please me. I love the way they bend over with a frisbee and the vehicle materialises around them. I always used to use this tactic at school in our playground storytelling games.
And if they made a nextgen console game out of it...! Who knows what fun could be had.
Posted by Jonny Ram on 15 Jul 2001 at 05:55 PM
I was counting the games they used in Tron while watching it, obviously the frisbee game is Pong, and the bikes are Painter. The enemy patrol ships are vaguely SpaceInvader shaped.. Anyone spot any others..
Posted by Dan on 15 Jul 2001 at 05:58 PM
Painter? Is that the same as Snake?
Drucke Fire!! (In a German accented amiga soundchip style)
We had a Tomy viewmaster style game of those space invader ships approaching, any idea if it's still hanging around?
Posted by Anonymous on 15 Jul 2001 at 06:02 PM
I think Admins are supposed to login before Posting on their own site :)
Posted by Dan on 15 Jul 2001 at 06:03 PM
Ooops, forgot I wasn't logged in..
Maybe it's on that Handhelden site, I'm off for a look..
Posted by Anonymous on 15 Jul 2001 at 06:04 PM
It was one of these but it was red and not this game. The graphics also looked loads better than that "screenshot" implies.
Posted by Anonymous on 15 Jul 2001 at 06:11 PM
Oh yeah and the Tanks in Tron are from Battlezone..
Posted by Dan on 15 Jul 2001 at 06:05 PM
Disney have just announced a 2-disc Tron DVD for release on 1/15/02.
It "is expected to include anamorphic widescreen video (from the newly-restored 70mm print), Dolby Digital 5.1 EX sound, multiple audio commentary tracks, early video tests, conceptual artwork galleries, never-before-seen "behind-the-scenes" footage, 2 documentaries about the history of computer animation for film, new interviews, deleted scenes, a "making-of" featurette, a storyboard-to-film comparison of the light cycle chase and MUCH more (including many of the extras created for the previous laserdisc release). SRP will be $29.99".
Posted by Dan on 29 Jul 2001 at 09:24 PM