Bootleg Tron 2 Trailer Is Out In the Wild

An anonymous reader writes "Gizmodo and Filmstalker are showing the Tron 2 (aka Tr2n) teaser from Comic-Con 08. From the Giz article: 'It's a tiny bootleg video, but I don't care. You can see that the 3D looks amazing, the new lightcycles are stunning (and move like real bikes), the world and the whole mood is Batman-like dark. And Jeff Bridges ... well, he is Jeff Bridges. What can I say, he looks like a badass version of The Dude. "It's just a game!" he shouts. No, it's not. It's Tr2n. At last. Note: excuse the excitement, but I saw the original in the movie theater, and 200 times after that. With War Games, it's what got me into technology when I was a kid, and ultimately here in Giz. The only thing that has me worried is that the characters in the computer world are fully 3D.'"

Cleaned up video link

[b1t r0t]

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x692m3_tr2n-cleaned-up-001_fun [dailymotion.com]

Because it was annoying enough for me to figure out which links to click, and I want to save someone else from the effort.

So is this for real? Are they really making a sequel, or is this just some guy's fan-made video? It's pretty good, though. Even with the rough quality (or maybe because of it), it looks like they had guys really riding motorcycles like that, then added CGI over the live footage.

Great Tron-Based game

[iamwhoiamtoday]

While you are waiting for "Tron 2" go on ahead and play Armagetron. It's quite a lot of fun, and is one of the games of choice for my lan parties now. http://www.armagetronad.net/ [armagetronad.net]

It was a Cray

[localroger]

Then the most powerful computer in the world, and they had to rent time on it because they couldn't afford to buy one. And it didn't actually render the final cells -- it created line drawings which then had to be hand painted by human animators. This is why people got so excited about Tron; it looked like something far ahead of its time.

Re:It was a PDP-10 clone (Foonly), not a Cray

[Poisonous Drool]

Tron [wikipedia.org]

Re:It was a Cray

[mfnickster]

This site [osu.edu] will tell you a great deal about the graphics in TRON and how they were produced. They were done by several different companies on a bunch of different hardware.

AFAIK, the only things that were hand-painted were the rotoscoped "circuitry" traces on the costumes, and the Grid Bugs.

Re:Great Tron-Based game

[Chelloveck]

Of course, a game that's even more Tron-like would be, um, Tron 2.0 [go.com]. It's a darned respectable FPS, it's very much Tron, and as it's several years old you can find it on the bargain table.

They haven't asked yet...

[Jay Maynard]

To answer the inevitable questions: No, they haven't asked me to participate yet. Yes, if they ask, I'll do it.