Return of TRON!

The other day, in my usual scatter-brained way I happened upon this wonderful little ball of beauty, the new trailer for TRON: Legacy...

Now, ooh, doesn't that just make you tingle? The thunder; the big, shiny virtual landscape; lightcycles; Jeff Bridges... It all just tickles my tastebuds to a strangely euphoric point. It is one of those trailers that I could watch over and over.

The only thing that remains now is to hope and pray that the finished product, due for release in 2010, will deliver a similar thrill. Of course, I've never been much of a sci-fi lover, but this story - about a son who, in looking for his disappeared father, finds himself pulled into the same dangerous virtual world of games and challenges in which he has been trapped - reminds me of other "dangerous game" films that I loved like Running Man and Battle Royale. Hell, even Jumanji does it for me.

If the film isn't such a success then so be it; the original Tron didn't exactly set a fire underneath the world. But this time it seems that visual effects might be able to do justice to the expansive and fluid action sequences (especially if they can project those eerie faces onto the helmets), as well as the tone of the film seeming to have fallen into the new-age noirism of so many other successful summer blockbusters these days. So fingers crossed.

Either way, I'm just glad I got to see this trailer. In fact, i'm going to watch it again. Excuse me.