TRON: Legacy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of TRON: Legacy or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to TRON: Legacy

[gabriel]

The skintight "electric" suits worn were actually fitted with embedded light strips, thus eliminating the need for any such effects modifications in post production.

[kristina]

Although the 2008 "TR2N" teaser trailer showed that Disney was seriously considering a sequel, the movie had not been "greenlit" at that time. According to director Joseph Kosinski and producer Sean Bailey, the teaser served two purposes: to show Disney executives what a TRON sequel might look like (before committing to a feature budget), and to gauge fan interest. If the teaser had failed to generate sufficient fan "buzz", the movie wouldn't have been made. It has also been confirmed that, as the teaser was only a "concept" film, virtually none of the teaser footage will appear in the final film.

[sophie]

Quorra's DNA is triple stranded.

[oscar]

2 years after the movie's release, a short-lived animated spin-off series TRON: Uprising (2012) aired on Disney X and was a prequel to the movie. The prequel series follows a young program called Beck who was trained as a warrior by Tron who leads a rebellion against Clu and takes on Clu's henchman General Tesler and sets out to free The Grid from Clu. Olivia Wilde and Bruce Boxleitner were the only actors from the movie to return for the animated series and provide the voices of Quorra and Tron. The series was discontinued after 1 season and won a Emmy for it's animation.

[ava]

Kevin Flynn's white lightcycle bears a striking resemblance to the original design of the lightcycle in Tron (1982) , there are slight differences though, the most noticeable is that it doesn't materialise from a baton like the classic and new lightcycles

[terry]

Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) is seen wearing a stylized "89" on the back of his helmet in the motorcycle scene in the real world. This is to represent the year that Kevin Flynn disappeared and was mailed as a sticker decal to those who participated in the "Flynn Lives" viral marketing campaign in the months leading up to the film's release.

[tamara]

Michael Sheen drew inspiration from Mae West and Ziggy Stardust (a persona of singer David Bowie) for his performance.

[nora]

Olivia Wilde is the only actor in the film playing a program who doesn't wear contact lenses for their role due to the natural intensity of her eyes. This is not including CLU or TRON who are created in the images of their users.

[aaron]

Daft Punk were huge fans of the original film and readily agreed to be the composers. Director Joseph Kosinski said he was interviewing them about the job, he felt that he was the one being interviewed, such was their desire to make sure he preserved the spirit of the first movie.

[ray]

The name of the character 'Alan Bradley' is likely a reference/homage to the founders Allen Bradley who are the namesake of the famous brand of electronic controls. Conglomerate Rockwell International purchased Milwaukee based Allen Bradley a long time ago, and then divested many companies. Rockwell then moved its HQ to Milwaukee and is now called Rockwell Automation, but it's really (just) the Allen Bradley brand these days.

[ethel]

The CGI version of young Jeff Bridges is cobbled from footage of him in Against All Odds (1984) made 2 years after the original TRON (1982). This was then retrofitted onto mo-cap performance by Bridges himself and stunt double John Reardon who was his stand-in. The whole thing took approximately 2 years to complete.

[kenzi]

The crowd voices during the disk battle in the beginning of the movie are actually the voices of the audience during the panel for the film at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con. The audience was instructed to stomp and chant to prompts shown on the large video screen, and the sound was recorded by techs from Skywalker Sound.

[bessie]

The suits the actors had to wear were extremely hot, and when the cameras were not rolling the cast would sit underneath giant yellow air conditioning tubes to cool off.

[marc]

HIDDEN MICKEY: the security camera Sam Flynn takes out in the Encom building has a striking resemblance to the Walt Disney mascot.

[bernice]

Throughout most of the movie, Rinzler can be heard making a purring or clicking sound. This is due to his corrupted/changed data. Towards the end of the movie, when Rinzler sinks down into the water, his illuminations turn from red to white, and his purring ceases. It's at this point that Rinzler's corruption is gone and he's become TRON again.

[jesse]

Cillian Murphy's character Edward Dillinger II is meant to be the son of Edward Dillinger (David Warner), the primary antagonist of the first film who stole credit for creating Kevin Flynn's video games. He appears in only one scene. His uncredited appearance is meant to hint at a possible sequel which was at one point in the works, but never materialized.

[jim]

During the Disk Wars Battle, various video game sound effects and bleeps can be heard throughout. Also, the sound effects can be heard when the opponents are driving up the circular ramp during the Light Cycle Match when the good program drives over an arrow. Video games play a central role in the franchise.

[ella]

The name of the GEM character is a reference to the GEM graphical environment that ran on Atari ST machines. It was also available on the original IBM PC but never became popular with PCs, its use and development only continued on Atari machines.

[ken]

At Comic-Con 2010, this movie became the first film to be promoted at the annual con for three years running.