Disney’s Tron: Legacy viral marketing campaign last week revealed more than just an image. It also resulted in a special even in which the much sought after, brand new trailer for Tron: Legacy debuted in IMAX 3D theaters in select cities. Actually this is the first trailer for the film. The footage you’ve probably already seen was actually test footage made before real work began on the film. But this is a real trailer and your first chance to see it will be this coming Friday in front of Alice in Wonderland.
But this is the internet, where you only wait if you want to. Our friends at Cinema Blend were at the special IMAX debut of the trailer this morning, and caught all of the action. Here’s a few highlights from what they saw:
The trailer begins with a voice over by Bruce Boxleitner, reprising his role as Alan Bradley from the first film, saying that he has new “information about your dad.” He is then shown speaking to the son of Kevin Flynn, Sam, played by Garrett Hedlund, who we get our first clear look at. Sam is then seen entering the arcade, which is now covered in dust and cobwebs, and heads to the Tron machine in the back. Pulling the game out from against the wall, Sam discovers a door and walks into a room filled with computer monitors, which, while on, are also sheathed in dirt and grime. From behind Sam, who is looking at the monitors, the laser that digitized his father slowly rises. The screen goes black. What came next caused everyone in the theater to mutter “holy shit”: a giant, beautifully rendered Recognizer that goes so far beyond anything seen in the 1983 film that it makes the original look like a joke. The audience is then treated an incredible sequence of short cuts, featuring disc battles, more lightcycle racing, an incredible-looking Olivia Wilde in repose on a couch and, of course, Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) himself. The trailer ends with another voice over, this time from the first meeting between father and son. Sam says, “It’s been a long time,” only for Kevin to respond, “You have no idea.”
Check out the full, detailed description of the entire trailer over at CB.
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