Last year, during filming of “TRON: Legacy”, the lucky fellas over at Scifiwire got a chance to sit down with Jeff Bridges to question him on the part he is to play in the digital inner bits of the latest TRON extravaganza. Many questions were asked, but Jeff was cagey and lawyered up frequently. Still, some interesting information was extracted.
A taste:
You said once the thing you remember most about making the first one was this really uncomfortable dance belt [that he wore under his white leotard], so is the same thing happening in this one?
Bridges: No dance belt, thank God. Here we have these wonderful suits that light up, so they have their own kind of problems, you know, heating up and stuff like that, but the suits are quite a bit different. … I don’t know all the technical stuff, but these suits are amazing. You know, I was talking about the lighting being so low that they’re using. One of the reasons for that is so you can really see the suits, and the suits can even light the other actors off your suits.
Is there a new vehicle?
Bridges: There’s another little vehicle. There’s all kinds of new twists on it. Have you seen the demo or the trailer? So you can get an idea of how the guys flip on their—run and jump on their baton that has light cycles and all kinds of different things. …
So no dance belt. Sigh, so much for nostalgia. Scifiwire managed to check out some concept art on the walls of the set and are now free to describe them.
Thusly:
♦Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) kneeling in his “safe house” in a white martial-arts-type robe.
♦Four “sirens” surrounding Sam Flynn: They’re in skintight white illuminated catsuits; he’s in a black one.
♦Sam with a disc on what looks like the bridge of a large ship, all orange and hexagonal windows opening onto blue screens beyond.
♦Concept art of characters: Bridges’ Flynn in black robes and white robes, kinda Obi-Wan looking; Clu in a long black coat with orange lights; Sam in black tights with white lights and a helmet with a glass visor; Quorra (Olivia Wilde) in a black catsuit with a collar and diagonal light. When we see finished 3-D images later, the looks are slightly different: Quorra, for example, is wearing a black catsuit with cutout shoulders and an asymmetrical Louise Brooks black bobbed haircut.
“TRON: Legacy” hits theatres on December 17. Directed by Joseph Kosinski. With Jeff Bridges, Michael Sheen and Olivia Wilde.
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