What's the Deal with This Footage From Tron Legacy, Formerly Tron 2.0, Formerly TR2N?

· Disney's Tron Legacy had by far the coolest promotional stunt of anything at Comic-Con with its Flynn's Arcade experience, but -- putting aside the conceptual art they previewed -- the total amount of finished footage screened at the panel amounted to 0 minutes. So what's this nearly three-minute clip, which has appeared and disappeared on YouTube for about a year now, and appears to now be there for good? It's not the trailer, but rather test footage that screened for Comic-Con 2008 audiences. Still, as year-old test footage goes, it should succeed in mercilessly tickling the remote geek-quadrants of your brains.

· Congratulations, HBO! Your Ryan Kwanten-handjob-friendly programming has earned you GLAAD's Squeal of Approval!

· The sweethearts over at Jezebel have some fun with Mad Men's avatar-making web promotion. Those gals are just doll-faces, aren't they? Now if they'd only freshen my bourbon a little more often!

· Richard Rushfield, a Movieline friend and widely considered to be the Roger Angell of the international competitive karaoke circuit, has left the Los Angeles Times for a new position as the West Coast Editor of Gawker, a New York-based media blog. We wish him all the best there.

· Yes, Robert Downey Jr. did describe Holmes' relationship to Jude Law's Watson as being "circumstantial homosexuality" at the Sherlock Holmes Comic-Con press conference, which went a long way towards explaining the unmistakable pizazz the two demonstrated in hunting down a coldblooded killer on the Moors.



Comments

  • Lowbrow says:

    Tron Legacy, the first movie that Disney should rate NC-17 due to the amount of uncontrolled moaning and jerking that will come from the nerds during showings.

  • snickers says:

    I don't care how sticky I get, that trailer looks amazing.

  • JudgeFudge says:

    I'm impressed at how good the action is in that Tron clip. The conflict is clear and suspenseful. Its the kind of thing that makes you realize how crap Michael Bay is at directing action.

  • snickers says:

    As test footage, it's an amazing trailer. It was clear a year ago that this had significant potential.