Boxleitner back for more Tron

Posted on December 29, 2008
Filed Under Actors, Actresses, Sequel, TV show

Guys and girls, I read something so intriguing I just had to pass it on. ComingSoon.net reports that actor Bruce Boxleitner, who played Alan Bradley and the title character in Walt Disney Pictures’ 1982 film “TRON“, is currently filming a role for the studio’s upcoming TRON 2.0. He joins fellow original cast member Jeff Bridges and newcomers Olivia Wilde and Beau Garrett in the anticipated action-adventure.

In the original, hacker/arcade owner Kevin Flynn (Bridges) is digitally broken down into a data stream by a villainous software pirate known as the Master Control Program (MCP) and reconstituted into the internal, 3-D graphical world of computers. It is there, in the ultimate blazingly colorful, geometrically intense landscapes of cyberspace, that Flynn joins forces with Tron (Boxleitner) to outmaneuver the MCP that holds them captive in the equivalent of a gigantic, infinitely challenging computer game.

Though plot details are being kept under wraps, it is know that the new movie will act as the “next chapter.” Wilde will play a worker in the virtual world who tries to help fight Master Control Program, while Garrett will play a siren in the virtual world.

Since I was quite young in the 80′s I don’t have that much memories or sentimental feelings about Tron (or it’s sequel). To me Bruce Boxleitner is, and always will be, Luke Macahan (from “How the West Was Won“. ) That was one awesome tv show… Possibly the best historical western tv show ever made.

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