Bruce Boxleitner Returns for ‘Tron 2.0′

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.

Source: ComingSoon.net

Jeff Bridges Chats About Tron 2

Jeff Bridges was already a two-time Oscar nominee when he starred in a highly experimental science-fiction flick called Tron back in the early 1980s. The film went on to become a cult classic, and director Steve Lisberger spent the past 25 years or so mulling over a sequel.

Now, we’ll finally get that follow-up nearly 30 years after the original film was released. Tron 2 (or TR2N) made a splashy entrance into pop culture consciousness with a surprise teaser this summer at Comic Con, marking the first time I can think of that a film received a trailer three years early.

Bridges recently talked to Will Lawrence of The Guardian about that film and his recent success in Iron Man. Read more