A funny thing happened after the Disney panel for “Race to Witch Mountain” – the lights went down and an announcement was made about a secret trailer for a film that no one else would see footage of for at least another year. (It’s official release date will be sometime in 2011.) That film just so happened to be “Tron 2,” a movie that not only looks to have benefited from the technological advances of the last 20 years, but also marks the return of Jeff Bridges in one of his most popular roles.
Most of the trailer revolved around a Light Cycle chase between a man in a blue battlesuit and a faceless man in a yellow battlesuit. When the blue rider crashes into the yellow rider’s Light Cycle trail, he admits defeat, but the yellow rider clearly has plans of his own. The trailer then cut to the real world where you see a much older Kevin Flynn (Bridges) rise from a meditation position with something in his hand. Back in the game world, the yellow rider’s helmet visor reveals Flynn’s face, and when his defeat opponent exclaims “But it’s only a game,” Flynn replies, “Not anymore.” I’m not exactly sure if this means that Bridges will be the villain in this second film, but he’s clearly not the good-natured computer programmer from the original. Let the speculation begin, but one thing is clear: “Tron 2” is going to be badass.
