The gentle on the cameraperson, this is better than nothing - maybe he had to hold it at an awkward angle to avoid it being confiscated.

I REALLY HOPE Wendy Carlos does the music for this one; or at least, remixed versions by some progressive electronic musicians who won't just add a 4-on-the-floor beat, but lovingly embellish the original themes. BT and Hybrid come to mind (altho it seems unlikely), and even tho Orbital is defunct, the Hartnoll brothers have dabbled in Carlos-esque melodies. Don Dorsey may be a distant contender. ;)

I've never seen the first Tron intact, but I did hear the entire soundtrack.

Would be kewl if Pixar WAS involved; it'd make sense, them being the masters of mainly cartoony but definitely computer animation. :D

Torley

@Hvedhrungr and jstimson: If they're on the grid That's all they could do as part of the game rules. In Tron, once they were off the grid they could do whatever they wanted.

Human Bomb

was this guy trying to take the shittiest footage ever. because he wins a prize for that.

aestheticity

i wonder if the camera man could have taken shittier video?

zunealltheway

I just wet my pants a little...

xint

@J.T.: loved the video game. it had it's faults, to be certain, but it totally nailed the look and feel of the movie. some of the levels (like the PDA one) were just awesome.

wonder if they will get wendy carlos to d the score again (a big part of what i liked about the first movie.)

Argent99

I'm still in awe that I got goosebumps and shakes when I saw this. Saw the original movie in theaters so many years ago and alongside Blade Runner, Tron has always been an enduring classic for me.

However, if other remakes of my childhood favorites (Transformers, Episodes 1,2 & 3, The Pink Panther) are a hint of what's to come, I'd just as soon take a handy-cammed shaky trailer as the last I see of it.

papabean

WHOA... I'm speechless. Are you kidding me!? Remember when Disney Interactive made Tron 2.0 the video game? They had done it because they thought it was going to be more profitable than making a second movie. I guess they were wrong! Hell, I loved Tron, loved Tron 2.0, and will absolutely salivate for Tr2n. Bring it on.

J.T.

TR2N is not up on imdb.com as even being in pre-production. I wonder how far off it really is from being released.

scarbrtj

YES YES YES

PC+Mac Coexist

Pixar is involved? Maybe? The wheels should be spinning beach balls.

BiZarRroBALlmeR

i came o___o

who's the bad guy now?

vastas UAC?
the Collonel Kernel?

ibunkun

this has seriously been my favorite movie [tron 1] as a kid - and even still; today. most of my friends know me as the tech-geek - but every one of them knows my favorite movie is tron. i think i've watched that movie over a thousand times! being as i was only born in 1984... i'm pretty sure i didn't get to see it in the theatre (ha!), but it must have been awesome if any of you had. tron was the biggest influence growing up, and it STILL affects the way i think today. i just am holding my breath that they don't bomb this one - but so far, looks amazing!

devianaut

Nice!
can't wait!

RG_Shrike

1) Pixar. Ha ha, yeah right. Where does that crap get started?

2) Hey, look - variable speed shots and stuff flying in front of impossible computer-animatey cameras! I love being a fanboy about stuff that's been made by people that know what they're doing, but this "made-by-fanboy" music video style amateur hour stuff is awful.

3) I suppose the original Tron wasn't really the pinnacle of film-making either, and I loved it. I'll still watch Tron 2 when it out and probably mess my underpants. I'm not ashamed.

Ribs

awsome!!!!!!!

EVILSTUART

just had an idea to get me to dust off my wii, a tron game, like the discs!

powerball

I'm 32 and tron and war games had a big influence on me too.

powerball

I....I have a huge smile on my face. I got goosebumps. I am so excited, wow what the hell? Am I that big of a geek? I feel strange now.

RE-L

@CaptEO2000: Complete ditto.

junkmail

I think I just tinkled... a little bit!

hardtoremember

Yori (Cindy Morgan) pushes Tron's buttons (AKA Tron gets his compiler wet):

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Toshie

YAY, TR2N discovers curves. They must be in the 90's of computer technology now.

mad_hatter_md01

MmmmmmMMmmmmmMMMM Cindy Morgan...

Toshie

I see there is a lot of love for Tron in these parts, and I guess I need to go back and watch the original (although I remember the hype being much more exciting than the movie), but it is always concerning to me when a movie looks more like an excuse for new video games than something that might have involved even a minor amount of script analysis. Sorry - just my honest (and, admittedly, worthless) analysis.

Monty

@Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy:
@MastaFalse: Shut the hell up, that's when.

Second!

Seriously, if you're not excited about the raw and pure awesomeness that is TRON, then why are you wasting your and our time with your useless comment?

CaptEO2000

@JH315: Oh, c'mon. Seriously. Let's not start that "First" shit.

Anyhow, I'll have to re-watch "Tron". I haven't seen it since I was a kid. From what I could see in the trailer, this looks like it will be pretty cool.

Dirk

This movie was my all time favourite as a kid. I recall countless hours chucking Frisbees at my friends in the basement mimicking what we saw on the screen (even our parents and the odd trip to the hospital didn't stop the fun). Then a few years back Tron was re-released on DVD and I bought it hoping to recapture my childhood. Not a good idea it just spoiled the memory. But now, now it looks like they have made the film that I remember as a child. I can't tell you how much I am looking forward to its release.

Meursault

@jstimson: I agree! 90 degrees was not a limitation, a flaw, was a characteristic that made the race even more dangerous. The tanks on the other hand, could make smooth curves. It is a game for pussies now. No need for ultra fast reflexes...

Ariel_Wollinger

Damn, I'm such a freakin nerd! That crapy little bootleg gave me chills from my head to my toes.

CaptEO2000

mmm, just to clarify one thing here:
when someone says 'I am wetting my pants' that means:
-woman: might be sexually aroused to the point where glands around the vagina secrete gooey stuff
-man: is incontinent

It's not the same as when you say 'Tron va dejar pantaletas mojadas en todo el mundo' because 'pantaletas' implies that we are talking about women.
And it's not a linguistical problem either, I think quite a few native speakers also already use that expression although they are male and I guess there might also be women talking about how something gives them a hard-on or women getting kicked in the balls. All that would be emancipation taken a step too far.

Anyway, that said, might be interesting to watch the movie, although I don't have any clear recollection of Tr0n 1...

yogibimbi

@JH315: I see the ban-hammer !

Ariel_Wollinger

@dingus: They are, but only by themselves and in the presence of a girl. Note, I said presence, b/c at the first hint of skin, or slight touch, they cream their shorts. They never make it to getting the pants off, or touching the heiny.

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

@MastaFalse: Shut the hell up, that's when.

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

Do want!

AlanJC

someone has to tell me ... when the firs Tron was ever good. I have no fuckin' idea where all the excitement comes from.

MastaFalse

@Jesus Diaz: Pixar basically oversees all the movies at Disney, so they'll always be involved at some level.

bitfactory

The only thing I ever liked about Tron was the awesome bike 'fights'...

aaj111

@Jesus Diaz:

I completely agree with you Jesus. I for one grew up loving Tron and I welcome the upgrades. If they would have stuck to the rigidity of this unspoken laws of lightcycles there would be nothing new. Now where is that Tron Blu-Ray release?

PDAisAok

@Gonzie: Wrong. Everybody knows nerds are incapable of orgasm.

dingus

@God made the pretty girls pretty because he likes them more: Let's not start that one. If we're going to bring breakdancing back, we might as well go for Breakin' 3: Revenge of the Hustle.

deusdiabolus

Tr2n? Really? How is "2" even a remote replacement for "o"?

I played Tron Deadly Discs on my Intellivision until my thumbs bled. I'm looking forward to this.

bitfactory

Now i gotta watch Tron again!

Joseph

Pixar, eh? Do the light cycles make a mac sound when they start up? Will there be a Tron version of Walle?

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

omg I totally want to see!

Palestina

did you hear that?

i think that was the sound of every geek and nerd collectively orgasming

Gonzie

@jstimson: No, the original world of tron was a translation of the world of software back then, a humanized representation of the type of software and available at the time, which translated into those images in the mind of the artists that created the original movie.

Today, things have changed and so has the world of Tr2n.

It's called upgrades.

Jesus Diaz

@jstimson:

Absolutly agree! It doesen't makes sense to me to ride a virtual bike like you were playing Tourist Trophy. The lost the point.

valis

@Jesus Diaz:

I think Hvedhrungr means that in a bytes world there is no place for soft curves, only maths to optimize the optimal transition to an 90º angle, I'm sure that your computer undestands me...

valis

Does anyone else think that the official title should be TRON 2: Electric Bugaloo?

God made the pretty girls pretty because he likes them more

I find it amusing on the main page is the article about the Koreans nearly cracking fusion and the image used in that article looks like it could be from this trailer.

Emiat

Hmmm, part of the big appeal and look of the first movie lightcycle sequence was the "massless" state of the cycle. It was fast, did 90 degree turns, and dangerous as hell.

Now it just looks like some guys on motorbikes. What happened to the deadly effect of running into the trail? Looks like the guy just gets flipped around a bit instead of being wiped out of existence.

jstimson

I think that I pooped a little watching that.

Good to see they are using the original charactor(s) so far.

out2getu

@Waka in Japan: Yeah, it's 2008. They probably upgraded to Leopard, hence all the transparencies and glows.

Jesus Diaz

@Hvedhrungr: and up and down, and turn off the lights, and make complete stops.
Rules have changed... so play armagetron to play old style :D

Waka in Japan

whata pussy camera guy. its like he almost thought it was illegal

kevman90

@Hvedhrungr: It puts you off? I fraking love it.

Jesus Diaz

Looks nice. Is Bridges the bad guy now? It seems that's all the parts he gets lately. Although it kinda puts me off that the bikes can now go in soft curves...

Hvedhrungr

oops. Second. :)

JH315

First. And it looks incredible.

JH315

Ummmmmmmmmmm, woot?

Justapspfan

@JH315: Dude....

homerjay

TRON was frikin amazing! I bought it right away when it came out on DVD. (Dunno why, but Disney Movies VHS and DVD have shitty sound - they all make my center speaker crackle at decent volume) The lighcycle scene should be according to 90 degree turns, it's the reflexes that made Flynn great at the game (and that he invented it).
Will MCP still be British? Will Dillinger be in it?!
Remember, TRON took place in less than one second (I think, a very short time anyway) in the first place. I guess with clock speeds up to what they are now the movie could last forever.
Oh, and douchebags who think "First" is something special... Kindly remove yourself from the gene pool. Your teachers were right, you'll always be the last winner.

qbrad

All I know of tron is this

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twreckx

@Ribs: Because Tron is a Disney property, and Pixar is Disney's high end computer animation group.

Agreed that there's a lot of fan service in there; though, I still think it looks awesome, and would be in the theater opening night.

macserv

Ohhhhhhhh Sweet Jeezus..... In a way I wish The Giz wouldn't tease me like this. Now I KNOW it's out there and I have to FRAKKIN wait!

FrankenPC

Sweet.

seamusMoon

now I have the f$#@ing Tron song running through my head. shit.

la la laaaa, la laaa laaa laaa la, la la laaaa, la laa laa laa la ....

banmojo

Tron was an inspiration for me as a kid. I'm thrilled to see them working on this again.

totoro

I too watched the original Tron in theaters and I had the Tron lightcycle toy bike with the zip cord and the rubberized wheels and even the little tron figure that fit inside (you could stick GI Joe in there too, with some creativity). Really hope they do a good job with this but I think the fact that Jeff Bridges is involved already gives it some street cred for me.

Only thing is, what other games will be played? I would love to see them play out a Grand Theft Auto shootout or something.

UpIrons

@Gonzie:

Yeah, but that can also be heard on friday and saturday nights.

sad isn't it.

Neverkilled: Robot Jones, mechanical tyranical

PeRfEcTiOn

MR OPTIMUS PRIME

Nothing beats this:

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ヨシダさん 25

@banmojo:

Putting music into text never really works for other people besides yourself

just a heads up.

Neverkilled: Robot Jones, mechanical tyranical

I shat bricks, came and crapped my pants at the same time.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

They're not "soft curves" you BASIC scripts, they're Bézier curves.
And they are teh awesome.

/crosses fingers for Tron 3.0 FPS game to follow. Glee!!

Brackynews

Finally! :D

I am giddy sitting here. Pure glee. I've been waiting for this for a long time.

Hopefully if Jeff Bridges is in this one, so to will Bruce Boxleitner be.

Annex1

Apprently in the new movie Tron is a shell of what he once was. His code was augmented by a subsription service and people just couldn't afford the service. This slowed him down and made him less effective. He is only active in the torrents now.

Yori's code was was bought out by Porn Tracker, and she lives a happy life replicated on billion computers, keeping track of site usage and doing desktop stripteases.

The Bits have unionized and are on strike. To make matters worse there is an internal conflict with in the Bits, separating the 0's and 1's. The polarity between their views has lead to a lot of virtual knifings.

The Game Grid has degenerated. It is no longer about skill, but about blocking pop-ups.

There's more, but I don't want to kill the film for anybody.

DeadWriter

is that the same camera the dude was using when the first tron came out? these days we have something called "zoom"....ooh and, get this, "optical zoom. OMG! the world is ending!

akira_santiago

@jstimson: I'll agree. The physics of the first movie was not real world physics, but was completely coherent and appropriate. I don't think that making the lightcycles more "real world" improves on the Tron universe.

Besides, what about Space Paranoids man. What ever happened to that.

DeadWriter

@Brackynews: this.

junkmail

Cleaned up version of the trailer can be found here:

TR2N cleaned up 001

Polybius

Sweet. I watched the original when it first came out and I'm excited to see the second release. With the advance in technology the visual effects should be cool as long as it also has a great story.

imagine-engine

Best bootleg ever. Oh my god, the fact the Bridges is in it makes it all the better. I can't describe how excited I am right now. This is just so fucking cool!
@Hvedhrungr: Uh, They did in the first movie too. They were only limited to 90 degree turns on the game grid. Once they broke out they were making soft turns and had variable speeds. See the end of this scene:

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@Argent99: I sure hope they get Carlos, although the trailer did have some of the classic music. Carlos did amazing work for A Clockwork Orange and Tron, and it really wouldn't be the same without.

Also, where are my Tanks, Recognizers, and sexual innuendo?
@Toshie: Oh, there it is.

Erwin

oh man this had me all sorts of excited. Big fan of the first movie (and the subsequent game on the Intellivision...).

Man this makes me really, really wish i was at comic-con this year. Even with such a tiny and bootlegged clip im super excited about this.

withaneight

@Erwin: You are right. Only 90 turns in grid.

Jesus Diaz

I wonder if this is going to follow anything from Tron 2.0 (wicked game!). Here's hoping for another Tron video game!

Polybius

omg!!!
this totally made my weekend, thanks giz :)

Track

This sure beats the old fat guy walking around wearing the Tron outfit for the past eon. Not Cool.

BiZarRroBALlmeR

I added light cycles to my Garmin GPS display. The only problem if I can only make 90 degree turns.

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

OMG AWESOME.

etai

lets just hope it doesnt turn into something that went as bad as Speed Racer

elislider

@bitfactory: Tr2n? Really? How is "2" even a remote replacement for "o"?

someToast

Duuuuuuudee!!! Wow, this is seriously excellent news... I sooooo soooo loved the original movie (watched it in LA in a funky little old timey cinema with star lighting)... I was thinking that it was too cult classicish to ever get an update but low and behold it touched someone somewhere at least as much as it did me and now the story's being furthered.... I think I'll be one of the first in line for this!

-Scott

Netscott

I love the fast that they are using the actors from the original!

Soft curves...hells yea!

sshrum

crapped my ass out

laio

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For those people that mind how the lightcycles are not doing 90° turns or the rider not being immediately snuffed into a 0.

Check out the original trailer, slightly passed the middle you'll see quite evidently how the cycles can maneuver fully analog as soon as they're not on the grid anymore, and the tanks can destroy the cycles and just "eject" the riders without directly harming them.

The critics are basing their opinions too heavily on what I'd assume would be your vague recollection of the original or just on their past experience of playing the countless lightcycle mini-games all over the web.

Personally I'm very hyped for TR2N and the name is good enough for me too.

Blue_Six

I will FIGHT you to see Tr2n!

jibbly

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ryan_marsh

The original bikes could make soft turns and had more fidelity than just 90 degree turns. You just remember the 90 degree turns because they resulted in crashes. Watch closely.

ryan_marsh

why the hell didn't i register tr2n.com /cry

JordyT

Anything that George Lucas is not involved in might, possibly, be watchable - his work since American Graffiti has sucked.

JDisnidiet

No, no, no. There's been a misunderstanding. This isn't the trailer. This is the entire movie. Yeah, sorry, but that's basically all tron is.

Pablos102030

The crowd in the video is saying exactly what I was thinking.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

@bitfactory: I wore my Intellivion out playing Tron!!

I can't wait for this movie! I just went to the War Games 25th Anniversary reshowing earlier this week and it made me remember why I got in to computers so much!

ke4sfq

yeeeeeeeessssssss!!!!!!!! gawd dont screw this up hollywood....some things i notice
1. the lightcycles dont cover up the entire rider like the original
2. whats with the gay original battlestar galactica space helmets?!?
3. and whats with the enviroment being all hilly and rocky like the real world? not all computer graphic like the original..i mean there was even stars in the sky at the end of the trailor...

again....pleeeeeeease dont screw this up hollywood...like you are currently with all my childhood comicbooks

dejay181

@ryan_marsh:

you know everyone just results to the 90degree turns from the video game.

I know up until I saw tron thats all I thought it was, especially when family guy decided to rip it

Jamaces

still doesnt have copy and paste or mms?? WTF tron!

odnet

I bet Tron Guy can't wait!

Quicksilver4648

Say what you will about Tron, it was THE movie that got me into Scifi. My dad got a bootleg copy on video tape when I was very young, and I must have watched it over 500 times. Hell, its the ONE VCR tape I still own. I am SOOOOO happy to see Tr2n become a reality after all this time!

MerlynNY

@MastaFalse: Garfield gets a sequel and Shrek is getting number 4 in a year, why won't the first almost 90% CG movie not get one?

If you don't think those bikes are cool, you probably are the son of Evil Knievel...

VakeroRokero

Instead of going back, and watching TR1N, play the PC game from a few years back, it's better than the movie, and you will get to remember TR1N in all it's glory.

Tron rocked, no doubt about it, Coin-Op Tron was quite good as well.

karnak

Call the paramedics.

PsycheE

I have mixed feelings about these (basically) remake of the classic (Tron, Terminator, etc.) which I grew up watching - like most of the Gen X... I think the current generation of kids deserve their own new classic though. We need something original... Seriously....

monkeystuff

@odnet: iTron 3g?

Pablos102030

Yes, I love it. no they haven't yet asked me to appear. Yes, if they ask, I'll be there.

jmaynard

Been so long since I've seen the original -- forgot the LightCycles could move analog.
Oh, well, there's always GLTron!
[www.gltron.org]

cljohnston108

...and Cardboard Tron!
[www.dailymotion.com]

cljohnston108

To all you Tron-poseurs saying the lightcycles shouldn't move like real motorcycles... If you had actually SEEN Tron you would know they only made those 90-degree turns on the game grid. Outside in the open system they moved like real motorcycles.

mr.dandy

Sorry if I sound dramatic, but I barely could contain the emotion/tears...Yes, Tron & War Games were the biggest influences on what I do today and what I'll do for the rest of my life.

herosp

to quote the simpsons 3d episode
"can you describe it?"
"Well, you ever see the movie tron?"
no, no, no, no, yes.. I mean no

Actually it does look like a decent sequel, and the fact that jeff bridges has returned to be in it seals the deal

toyotaboy

@toyotaboy: That halloween episode was fantastic.

"This place looks expensive. I feel like I'm spending money just standing here."

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

Even on a crumby bootleg, the sound design is stunning. And I like the general morose tone.

But the Matrix-esque slow motion "look at this! look at this!" shots make me a little apprehensive. They feel inconsistent with what I would expect from a Tron film. For example, if the blue rider had hit the wall and went flying & sliding at normal speed, it would have felt more brutal.

Time will tell. Every franchise from my childhood has been ruined by mediocre sequels and "re-imaginings." I have my fingers crossed that this will be the exception.

BlushResponse

@BlushResponse: I dunno. When the blue rider leapt into the air and the lightcycle formed beneath him, I got goosebumpy.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

obviously they are playing with direct x 10

mpar

This movie will own. Mark it

Nemesisesq

Ok, I think I have found a flaw with the new movie already. The preview show an old Flynn meditating and then a younger version of himself that is supposedly his CLU program. The flaw is that in the original movie, programs age with their users. Think of the the old Dr Walter Gibbs, who says that he founded ENCOM in his garage. One of his earliest programs, Dumont, is the same age as Gibbs in the real world. How has the CLU not aged along with his user Flynn?

RunningUtes

Here's a zoomed and stabilized version of the video, much easier to watch: http://tron2trailer.blogspot.com/

AliSage

wait, so wheres the part for the fat tron guy? does anyone have pants i can borrow? mine got the pee on them.

SeeCue

AWESEOM

Benjo

Batman's bike bears a certain similarity to Tr2n's. When will see these bikes translated to something on the market?

mantoya

I can't believe they haven't taken the website www.tr2n.com yet

TheCapt

@JH315: fail

I can't freaking wait!!!

hagrun

mmmmmm, Pr2n. Can't wait.

Darascon

Holy shit, this is the first I have heard of a new tron movie.

TechnoColor me impressed!

yashichi8bit

Can't wait to see the proper trailer for this. Funny Gizmodo is exempt from Disney rules... they seem to be scrubbing this off the entire web except for here! Gotta leak that goodness somewhere!!!

Edog72

Did you hear that? I think I heard an orgasm from every geek that saw this.

michaelleung

WhiskeyTango

The reason for the poor video quality is that the people at SDCC are told NOT to record any moving images from the panels, and this guy must have had his phone in his lap not to get kicked from the panel.

UmbertoGebrony

I was actually there for this. Disney was presenting for Race to Witch Mountain which didn't seem to draw as much of a crowd as some of the other presentations (despite Carla Gugino), so the hall wasn't that crowded. As soon as the RtWM group was done, they announcer said we were in for a treat and that there would be no other trailers or video of this until sometime next year. As soon as we realized it was TR2N, there was an energy in the crowd. That was the highlight of Comic-Con for me.

DoggedDefense

Only after I see this movie will my life be complete.

Jeff the Riffer

the light-cycles have always been able to make soft turns except on the light-cycle grid when playing the game. watch the movie if you dont agree with me.

unixman84

@jstimson: Actually, the lightcycles only moved like that when on the lightcycle grid. Off the grid, they moved more like regular motorcyles in the real world. Okay, I'm geeking down for now.

Ardesco

I hope they get Wendy Carlos to do the soundtrack again.

Full-Moto-Jacket

I wonder where this was filmed? A Tron convention? If in America (which probably isnt a dangerous assumption), do you always whoop and cheer at a movie trailer???

Christ, what do you do when you open a packet of chips? Pass out?

bins

@mr.dandy:

true, they can make curves when they're not in the game grid, but these clearly are. remember, when they leave the game grid, they also lose their jet walls. and, of course, the statement by blue player that they're PLAYING THE GAME.

znbrtn

This trailer has been requested to be removed at other places all over the net. Specifically the tweaked/fixed full frame version. I did find one site still showing it and not likely to remove it. You can still view the trailer in full frame form here:

adnauseam

greetings programs! I love you internets!

bigusfickes