“Tron 2″ director Joseph Kosinski took time out from putting the finishing touches on the visual effects for the sure-to-be effects heavy sequel to talk to the blokes over at MTV, and brought along a fresh look at the yellow lightcycle from the movie to boot. That pic below. According to Kosinki, the 3D aspect will only take place in the Tron world. Yah! More comfortable glasses to wear for two hours!
MTV: So the takeaway is that Jeff Bridges is playing at least two representations of himself, one that is a contemporary of the original character and one that is a younger version. How much of Jeff are we going to see?
Kosinski: Jeff is playing two characters. He’s playing Kevin Flynn, the character from the original film, and he’s playing Clu, the avatar that Kevin Flynn created in the 1980s. I’d say he’s Clu 2. There was a Clu in the first film who looked like Jeff but was very simple in terms of his abilities. He’s very stiff. Clu 2 is a second incarnation of Kevin’s avatar. He doesn’t only look like Jeff, but he can think like him too. So it’s a whole new level of artificial intelligence.
MTV: What strikes me from the teaser and my visit to the set is that this is a dark film, an adult approach to the material. It’s not a G-rated Disney film.
Kosinski: I don’t know if I would say adult. There’s nothing in the film that would keep kids from watching it. I think the aesthetic of the film is largely a reflection of my aesthetic and what I’m interested in. When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see. For me, it was taking what I loved about the first film, which was the design elements that Syd Mead and Moebius [a.k.a. Jean Giraud] did, which I feel is timeless, and extrapolate it forward 28 years. We’re saying in the world of the computer, it’s been thousands of years and it has evolved.
Ride the cycle December 2010.
Click on the image for a bigger version of the yellow lightcycle.
