Daft Punk goes to the Game Grid

The robotic duo sans helmets..

It's all happening. The film that made my childhood greta was not Star Wars. It was the one sci-fi fantasy flick I could relate to: As an Atari lover, an arcade junkie, and future futurist, Tron made more sense than Star Wars. It was deeper, with corporate sabotage and embezzlement at the center of a visual masterpiece that was created by combining black and white photography with nearly nine layers of animation and film effects (one of them unintentional) and throwing the infant known as Computer Generated Imaging in the mix. Oh, and did I mention its a role that Jeff Bridges still claims as one of his all time favorites? And he is starring in the new one as both Flynn and CLU (Flynn's younger avatar). Yes, The Dude abides. The whole movie is being shot in 3-D, a thing that Disney is getting VERY good at, and John Lasseter, (Head of Pixar, and now head of all Animation for the Mouse) is lending some of his team's talents to ensure that this cult classic's sequeal knocks it out of the ballpark in the summer of 2011. And with today's announcement of Wendy Carlos's job being filled by a certain French duo.... I think we're gonna see that more and more people realize that 20 years before the Matrix, Tron was killing it on the Game Grid.


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