Canadian FilmDrunkard Al recently directed my attention to a Vancouver Sun article - buried halfway down in it was the news that Disney’s Tron sequel (called Tr2n, Tron 2.0, or just Tron, depending on whom you ask) has a budget of $300 million - which would make it the most expensive movie ever made. (list of the top 10 most expensive after the jump).
Vancouver post-production units are salivating at the prospects presented by the Disney remake of Tron, which carries a whopping $300 million budget and opportunities aplenty for effects and digital polish. The 1982 version of the film starring Jeff Bridges blazed new trails in computer graphics and you can bet Tron 2.0 will push much further down the pixel path.
The figure sounded fishy, especially since Time misreported James Cameron’s Avatar budget as $300m a couple weeks ago (supposedly they meant to say $200 million). I called the Sun reporter to see where he got the figure from, and he said it was “a reported figure.” I couldn’t find any report that listed the budget as $300m, so I called the production publicist, who said she didn’t have that information. I’m guessing that if the reporter thinks he got his figure from a mainstream source, and I can’t find that source, then he was probably mistaken. Ergo: Guessing = 1, Reporting = 0. Let this be a lesson: trying is the first step towards failing. I’ll never make this mistake again. *cuts off pinkie*
“Ask me about my crotch bulge”
The makers of the Tron sequel, previously known as Tr2n, have decided that replacing letters with numbers is so se7en years ago. According to Production Weekly, the new title is TRZ. Because X’s are played out and vowels are what fags do.
“After being transported into the surreal landscape of a mainframe computer to destroy an intruder, a programmer finds himself allied with the leader of a rebellion against a corrupt cyber-entity.”
Little else known about the project, in which Jeff Bridges will reprise his role as Flynn, and which will be shot in 3-D (or possibly hypercolor). I think they should make it a buddy cop movie about Tron Man and this guy. “Aww hell naw! Don’tchoo eva touch a LARPer’s radio,” vagina-face man would say.
[via /Film]
