Disney Enlists Pixar For "Tron: Legacy"

Disney Enlists Pixar For "Tron: Legacy"

"Tron: Legacy" is about to become even more kick-ass, with the help of Pixar!

By Kaboom - Jul 14, 2010 08:07 AM EST
Filed Under: Tron
Source: Hollywood Insider


"Tron: Legacy", the highly anticipated sequel to the 1982 film "TRON", is going to be a huge CGI extravaganza and will be breath taking to watch. Joe Kosinski, the director, and Disney showed some of the Pixar guys an early working cut of the film featuring Garrett Hedlund and Jeff Bridges. Some of those "Pixar" guys they revealed the footage too was John Lassetter, Brad Bird, Michael Arndt, and Ed Catmull.

Disney's intent to use there help was for them to beef up some of the scenes for re-shoots, and mainly because if there is anything Pixar is good at, it is: character, emotion and theme.

Michael Arndt and Brad Bird had re-wrote some scenes, which only took six days to do, and the original writers for the film, Adam Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, still were invovled at the time.

“Tron is very much Joe Kosinski’s vision, a vision which is thrilling to me and I hope is thrilling to the fans,” said Sean Bailey, Disney’s president of production. “What I give Joe and the filmmaking team immense credit for, is this was all born out of how do we give the fans the best movie we can. We were very fortunate that Pixar wanted to play a part in it.”

"Tron: Legacy" is set to blow your mind on December 17, 2010!
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Anthrax
Anthrax - 7/14/2010, 10:03 AM
I WANT TOY STORY 4 I WAS CRYING AND DYING AT THE END OF TOY STORY 3 TS4 AND TS 5
TheAmazingSmitty
TheAmazingSmitty - 7/14/2010, 11:28 AM
This is unexpected, but great great news! Pixar's definitely the right choice if they want to put more heart into this movie.
Nightwing09
Nightwing09 - 7/14/2010, 11:54 AM
this is gonna be amazing
whatshisnameMD
whatshisnameMD - 7/14/2010, 12:02 PM
More Toy Story! And possibly another Monsters Inc too ?
deadpoox
deadpoox - 7/14/2010, 12:16 PM
Yessssssss!!!!!!!
StuckInPanels
StuckInPanels - 7/14/2010, 1:30 PM
ohhhhhhhhh I wonder what they are gonna be handling..maybe we will get a new version of BIT...YES....is that all you can say*long pause* NO!!!!
GeekSexy
GeekSexy - 7/14/2010, 3:14 PM
The irony is that the original "Tron" was the inspiration for Pixar. John Lasseter, while working at Disney in the 80s, was shown an employee preview of "Tron" and was amazed by the use of computer graphics and said, "Why can't we use this kind of technology with animation?" It took a few more years to get off the ground, but the seed for CGI animated films and Pixar itself was planted with Lasseter's first viewing of "Tron". It looks like it's coming full circle, which is quite poetic, really.

@DannyRand401 -Pixar may not own Disney, but they now run Disney Animation from the top down. That's pretty impressive for a company that was about to be consumed by the big, bad Disney machine. Oh, how the tables have turned.
gaikinger
gaikinger - 7/14/2010, 9:52 PM
WEIRD FAT GEEKS UNITE!!! MikeSanderson sucks!!
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