Last year Tron had a couple of large press junkets visit the set. Now that the marketing campaign is in full effect, we should be seeing a lot of stuff coming out. C.H.U.D. got a chance to speak to Jeff Bridges (The Dude) about both the new movie and the original. Here are some excerpts:
How has Flynn changed?
Well, this is kind of a challenge for me because I don’t want to deprive anybody of the enjoyment of seeing the film with any kind of twists and turns. So I’m probably not gonna answer too many of your questions about that because I want to make it fun for people without telling the whole plot.
But it’s certainly a different deal. We made Tron, there was no internet, man. No cell phones. No laptops or any of that stuff. So it’s completely different world that we’re showing up in here and the look of the film it certainly, you know, benefits from that.
Were you surprised at the reaction? [2009 Comic-Con Teaser Trailer]
Yeah, a little bit. I haven’t been to Comic-Con. I'm going to this one coming up but I hear it’s kind of a crazy thing.
Tell me about Lisberger.[Original director]
Well it is a little bit strange. I’m excited because I think he’s gonna be in it somewhere in the movie. It will be fun to play with him. Just him being involved in it was a big plus for me. I think you asked what made me gave involved again. Another chance to work with Steve and do that. And Bruce too. Bruce is in it. Boxleitner.
How different is it working with special effects this time?
Wow, it’s so different. I mean the original you’re basically working with the duvetyne, that black stuff and white adhesive tape. Those were the design basically and so they wanted to make something they would kind of do that. Shot in 70 millimeter black and white and then all hand tinted by Korean ladies.
That was the extend of the technology and there was no internet or anything like that. And now it’s just whole other realm. And one of the reasons I wanted to do it because I felt this is where movies are starting to go now, you know, where they’re taking the actors and putting them inside a computer very much like Tron. I mean they can do whatever they want with them. They can say let’s put Al Pacino in there. Let’s put in Joey Pants, what the heck. Let’s see what kind of guy we can come up with, you know, and that’s happened. They can do that. It’s right around the corner.
It seems like the film has some homages to the first movie. Do things stick out in your mind from the first one?
Well they’ve done the light cycles and the disc game. People I think are fans of that so they wanted to keep that. That’s still in there but it’s taken to the next level but it’s quite remarkable what they’ve done on that.
Every time I read a Jeff Bridges interview, all I hear in my head is The Dude from
The Big Lebowski. Thanks to C.H.U.D. for the excerpts. Click the link source for the full interview.
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