Tron: Uprising is an upcoming American animated science fiction television series, part of the Tron franchise, which will air on Disney's television channel Disney XD, in the United States. The show is set to premiere on June 7, 2012.[2][1] The series will be directed by Charlie Bean, Joseph Kosinski and Sean Bailey, who will also act as executive producer. Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz and Sean Bailey will produce the series.[3] The series is set between Tron and Tron: Legacy. Tron: Uprising has been confirmed to be a 10-parted mini-series
Actors Bruce Boxleitner(
Tron,
Tron: Legacy) and Lance Henriksen(
The Terminator,
Aliens) sat down to have a brief chat about their upcoming new animated 10-part series
Tron: Uprising. For the full interview, just click the link! See what the actors had to say about the series below.
Turn to Tron Uprising, Boxleitner said he believes the animated version of Tron is very similar to the character he played in 1982 and again in 2010.
“In the animated series, which I really love about this, the character is consistent in many ways but these new aspects come out — in this one he’s a harsh taskmaster and it gets harsher after this first episode,” he said. “He really beats the daylight out of Beck, it’s really tough love. This guy is beat-up, battle-worn, and has much more maturity to him.”
Henriksen, on the other hand, drew on his years in theater to flesh out General Tessler, the program Clu sends to oppress Beck’s hometown, Argon City.
“Because I’ve been doing Richard III for years, I know what power’s like, I know what megalomaniacs are like because I certainly played some,” Henriksen said. “I find that Tessler is so frustrated and twisted about the power that he wants and what he’s willing to do to do it, he’s very much like a megalomaniac politician or a Richard III.”
“Clu is really my enemy, but he’s my unspoken enemy,” he continued. “I would never relate that to Paige because that might be my undoing, I’d get derezzed like anybody else.” Despite his unspoken enmity with the other bad guys, Henriksen said he believes there’s “not a drop” of compassion in his character.
Although Boxleitner has appeared in other films and TV shows over the years, he said people still recognize him primarily as Tron. However, the Boxleitner said he doesn’t mind the connection to Tron, as he feels the original film did more than just entertain audiences, it inspired people.
“Years later I’d have people come up and say, ‘I saw Tron, Mr. Boxleitner, and I went into computer software, I went into something related to that,’ and I’m always thinking, ‘Wow, I was in something that influenced people, right down to one person’. You don’t really see that a lot in Hollywood,” he said.
Tron: Uprising debuts June 7 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on June 7.