Who cares about Tron? Trust me, after seeing the trailer you will. Even the most skeptical moviegoers that I know began to warm towards this film after seeing the first real images from it. For the past ten days I’ve been telling everyone I know how incredible the first trailer for Tron Legacy is. As part of the Flynn Lives.com viral campaign I attended an IMAX event on Saturday February 27 here in New York City. The problem is this event was just a screening of the trailer and many attendees, some who traveled from as far as Toronto, where unaware of this until they showed up. Not as well planned a promotion as “Avatar Day” last summer, but it was still a fun time at the movies, all two minutes and nineteen seconds of it. At last year’s San Diego Comic-Con Disney screened a sliver of a scene as well as the VFX concept trailer as that got the film greenlit by the studio, but this official trailer features the first bit of real scenes from the picture.
Tron Legacy not only looks to be an exciting time at the cinema but an ambitious sequel that hopes to live up to and maybe surpass the magic of the original. Director Joseph Kosinski steps into Tron creator Steven Lisberger’s shoes who also returns as the film’s co-writer and producer and more importantly star Jeff Bridges returns not only as aged computer genius Kevin Flynn, but the film’s chief villain Clu. Through the use of CGI, Bridges appears thirty years younger as the renegade program. Garrett Hedlund also stars as Flynn’s 27-year-old son Sam who enters the cyber world and with a little help from program Quorra (Olvia Wilde) attempts to rescue his father who has been missing for twenty years.
Until now, the trailer was only available to audiences who attended 3-D showings of the recent release Alice In Wonderland, but you can also watch it here, If you’re like me and in the mood for a high-def version you can download to watch on your computer or home theater/PS3 set-up, this link will allow you to download the trailer in 1080p. Or just be lazy and click below:


