The news that Disney was making a sequel to Tron, while stupid, has been around for some time.  This week, the news from Comic-Con is that not only will it star Jeff Bridges, they’ll be taking a cue from teenage girls on MySpace and calling it Tr2n.  That’s right, Tr2n.  Now, I know what you might be thinking.  Regardless of how you feel about substituting numbers for letters (and I don’t feel good about it, but that’s beside the point), a 2 doesn’t even look like an O.  It might pass for an S, or even a Q (and it’d be a stretch either way), but an O?  I don’t see it.  But I will tell you this, friends: it’s amazing how little details matter when you’re a fucking idiot.

[via MTV - Thanks, Robopanda] 

Just when we thought we’d finally found a woman (albeit animated and fictional) for our lovable little chubby Jeffrey Dahmer clone, turns out the above left image, originally said to be a character in James Cameron’s upcoming Avatar, is a fake.  James Cameron sez:

You recently posted some artwork of a supposed Na’vi character. Don’t know where you got it but it’s spurious. I’ve never seen that piece of art. We had a lot of free-ranging conceptual stuff in the early days of design two and a half years ago, and it might be something that was done then but not shown to me, but it is definitely not remotely our actual character design. Aside from two legs, two arms and a tail, it doesn’t have any features in common with our final designs. If I had to guess I’d say it’s a piece of fan art based on the description of the Na’vi from the old treatment which was leaked twelve years ago. [JoBlo]

12 years ago – makes sense in a weird way, don’t it?  I guess you just can’t trust… who was it that leaked this picture again?  Oh yeah, AICN. I know I occasionally bash them for posting obviously spurious nerd-submitted rumors, but really I’m just bitter that they get emails from Jim Cameron and I don’t.  Why do Hollywood types read that and not this? Is it because they never nicknamed anyone ‘Poopeater McSucksalot‘?  It is, isn’t it.  *sigh* People just don’t get the highbrow stuff anymore.

The concept art for James Cameron’s Avatar has been online for a few days now, and as /Film has pointed out, it’s basically a cross between Angelina Jolie in Beowulf and Tron.  Nerds love to whack it to animated chicks like this, because cartoons can’t file restraining orders.

AVATAR will chronicle the story of a galactic war veteran, sent to a distant world to battle a new race of life-forms, alleged to look like [the chick in the concept art]. So far Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Matt Gerald, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, Wes Studi, Stephen Lang, CCH Pounder, Michelle Rodriguez and Zoe Saldana will all star in the film… Saldana is rumored to be playing the character that appears in the photo. [Source] 

The “sci-fi” epic is said to blend live-action shots with “revolutionary” 3-D CGI effects – making it pretty much like every other action movie made in the last ten years. I’m not too into this project at this stage, but I’ll take any excuse to post pictures of Tron Man.  Say, I feel like I’ve seen those exact glasses somewhere else… ‘Tis truly a mystery… 

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Disney is in final talks with commercial director Joseph Kosinski to develop and direct the next chapter of Tron.  Yep, this Tron.  If you're not excited, you're not retarded.  No word on whether "Tron Man" here will be in any way involved. 

The original, about a computer programr thrust into a computer and forced to fight in games he helped create, is remembered for its sci-fi gladiator-style battles and groundbreaking special effects. It was the first movie to use computer-generated images instead of models and other optical effects in conjunction with live action.

In the new version George Lucas finds out that Jar-Jar Binks has come to life and is banging his daughter.  Okay, I made that up, but who wants to bet it's less stupid than whatever these assholes come up with? This dude is getting work based on stuff like this.