Disney Set To Make Tron 2

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In 1982, Walt Disney Pictures released what is considered the quintessential beginning of the digital filmmaking age. That movie was Tron, and it changed the way films were made forever more. The film featured extensive computer animation and was one of the first films to ever utilize it for special effects, costumes, and even the environments it took place in. The film focused on a programmer named Flynn (played by Jeff Bridges) who is sucked into the world of computers, where programs are personified in the forms of their users. There he encounters the evil Master Control Program (or MCP) and has to do battle with it, but the only one who is truly capable of doing so is a security program called Tron.

The original movie had a very mild run at the box office, although it received good reviews. However, many animators felt threatened by the film because they believed that it would make three dimensional animated media obsolete. The film was even snubbed a special effects Academy Award nomination due to the belief that the special effects were not real, which now seems very contradictory.

However, years later the lead director was given a special achievement Academy Award. And not only that, but the film has grown into a major cult classic, with its popularity being much much larger than when it was initially released. This is what has lead to something fans have been wanting for years: a sequel. While there had been one in the form of a video game in 2003, a movie sequel seemed unlikely.

However, there is one to be released in 2010. At the 2008 San Diego Comic Convention, or Comic Con as it is most widely referred to, a surprise clip of the new film was shown at the Walt Disney Panel. The clip featured a lightcycle race, one of the most iconic elements of the first film, except utilizing today's technology to fully capture the effect of the scene. It also featured Jeff Bridges, who will return as the protagonist Flynn, from the first film. Much of the plot is being kept a heavily guarded secret, but the effects in the film are supposed to, like the original, push the limits of today's special effects.

Fans who cannot wait to return to the computer world will have to until at least 2010, nearly 30 years after the release of the original film.

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