I am so excited about the upcoming sequel to TRON that I can barely contain myself. Judging from the trailers, it *looks* super sexy. It *looks* like it will remain true to the original film. It *looks* like candy on the screen.

And it's been 28 years in the building.

Potential for a big, crushing let down is very high. But I'll remain optimistic due in large parts to some of the info I see coming out recently.

In a recent interview Jeff Bridges talks about a lot of interesting things regarding what it's like working on the film. He said one thing I found particularly interesting concerning the difference between then and now and how special effects now more than ever are relevant to the story of the film.

Jeff Bridges: Wow, it’s so different. I mean the original you’re basically working with the duvetyne, that black stuff and white adhesive tape. Those were the design basically and so they wanted to make something they would kind of do that. Shot in 70 millimeter black and white and then all hand tinted by Korean ladies. That was the extend of the technology and there was no internet or anything like that. And now it’s just this whole other realm. And one of the reasons I wanted to do it because I felt this is where movies are starting to go now, you know, where they’re taking the actors and putting them inside a computer very much like Tron. I mean they can do whatever they want with them. They can say let’s put Bridges, but I want a little Al Pacino in there, and let’s throw in a little Joey Pants, what the heck. Let’s see what kind of guy we can come up with, you know, and that’s happening. They can do that. It’s right around the corner.

I have to say that some of Jeff's lines are tough to decipher completely. I can't tell of it's because he is so out there in his own world or if he just speaks in his addicting, Lebowski vernacular so well that you just want to capture every word, punctuation be damned.

You can read the whole thing here.