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TR2N Story Details Reveal A Little More About What Kosinski & Co. Are Up To!!
SPOILER ALERT !!
Merrick here...
Got these details out of Vancouver, where the TRON sequel is currently in production.
The source is trustworthy, so these details represent an accurate snapshot of the film (keeping in mind productions of this nature may be a bit fluid, and certain elements could be reworked between now and the film's 2011 release).
My Geeky heart is going pitter patter. Really can't wait to glimpse material from this film - stuff we can actually see, unlike this heinously inadequate Comic Con shakycam from last year:
BEWARE SPOILERS!!!
Here's User 2.0...
The title will almost certainly NOT be TRON 2 or TR2N. Possibly something with a colon - TRON: ________.
The story takes place approximately 25 years after the original.
The movie starts in 1989. Kevin Flynn (Bridges) has created some of the world's top selling games based on his Game Grid challenges in the first film, and has marketed the hell out of what he saw there (action figures, Recognizer night lights, yadda yadda yadda).
Flynn has a seven year old son named Sean.
Flynn disappears, leaving behind his son.
Alan Bradley (Boxleitner) takes over Flynn's company (ENCOM).
Jump forward in time: Sean is now twenty something.
Alan Bradley has info that leads Sean to look for Flynn.
Search takes Sean to Flynn's old arcade - mothballed.
Into the computer world goes Sean.
There's a CLU character (Flynn's computer alter-ego from the first film).
Flynn has programmed CLU to run around and make a better computer world, but CLU's gone corrupt and is creating his own interpretation of that perfect world. This is why CLU (young Bridges) is being such a punk-ass in that Comic Con footage we saw.
CLU has it out for a kind of program called ISOs & wants to eradicate them.
The ISOs believe Sean Flynn is the one who will free them from CLU's belligerence.
Somewhere in the computer world, the real Kevin Flynn is whizzing around in a classic Light Cycle. Will he help in the battle against CLU?
Light Jets have jet walls, too.
Light Cycles versus Light Jets.
Big Disc battle!
Bridges going all out for this role. Embracing it. Fans will go gaa gaa.
[END OF LINE]
USER 2.0
I *sooooo* want a Recognizer night light. How cool would that be?
BEWARE SPOILERS!!!
The title will almost certainly NOT be TRON 2 or TR2N. Possibly something with a colon - TRON: ________.
The story takes place approximately 25 years after the original.
The movie starts in 1989. Kevin Flynn (Bridges) has created some of the world's top selling games based on his Game Grid challenges in the first film, and has marketed the hell out of what he saw there (action figures, Recognizer night lights, yadda yadda yadda).
Flynn has a seven year old son named Sean.
Flynn disappears, leaving behind his son.
Alan Bradley (Boxleitner) takes over Flynn's company (ENCOM).
Jump forward in time: Sean is now twenty something.
Alan Bradley has info that leads Sean to look for Flynn.
Search takes Sean to Flynn's old arcade - mothballed.
Into the computer world goes Sean.
There's a CLU character (Flynn's computer alter-ego from the first film).
Flynn has programmed CLU to run around and make a better computer world, but CLU's gone corrupt and is creating his own interpretation of that perfect world. This is why CLU (young Bridges) is being such a punk-ass in that Comic Con footage we saw.
CLU has it out for a kind of program called ISOs & wants to eradicate them.
The ISOs believe Sean Flynn is the one who will free them from CLU's belligerence.
Somewhere in the computer world, the real Kevin Flynn is whizzing around in a classic Light Cycle. Will he help in the battle against CLU?
Light Jets have jet walls, too.
Light Cycles versus Light Jets.
Big Disc battle!
Bridges going all out for this role. Embracing it. Fans will go gaa gaa.
[END OF LINE]
USER 2.0
I *sooooo* want a Recognizer night light. How cool would that be?
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yay tron 2!
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I'm happy.
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i wonder if theyll do another on a new platform? 3d hyperbikes!
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yeah..they were lightbikes.
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tron was cool.
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My most anticipated movie in 2011! Although I gotta admit that I got no idea what else is coming out that year. Still looking forward to this. Jeff Bridges fucking rules!
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"Who is this SUPERMAN? I defy you!"
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This all sounds great. And with the new efx? Sweet jeebus! Really looking forward to this.
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Out of any movie coming out in the near future, I would argue TR2N has the potential to be a huge hit. Bridges will own this role, the CGI will be amazing, and it sounds fun. I shall predict right now this could go over 100 million and be the kind of movie that gets a few Oscar nods for production, sfx, and Bridges possibly for best supporting actor.
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NEON IS SO 2000's!
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Anticipating this one!
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really pull the room together, man.
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Don't care for that "name." Tron 2! There, that doesn't look so bad.
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"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"
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Mar 02, 2009 12:03:12 PM CST
Vancouver....where all the cheap shit is shot.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Why does anyone give a fuck about this project again? Oh yeah......they don't. -
So is the actual Tron program created by AlanONE still running around? Glad Boxleitner is involved with this.
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He needs to stop fuckin' around with the light cycles when I'm in the middle of a fuckin' scene!!! Are the light cycles perfect!!! Good!!! Well, they're fuckin' useless now, aren't they?!!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_shot_in_Vancouver
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Mar 02, 2009 12:28:49 PM CST
Yeah, because the Cyberspace will SO look like Canada.
by derlanghaarige
Stupid fucks. Can't they just shoot the movie in real cyberspace instead of going to Vancouver, pay cheaper taxes and so save some money to create the world of Tron with silly CGI effects?
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has there ever been a sequel shot 20 years after the original that was really good? I'm not saying there hasn't been, but I need reassurance.
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So many hours spent playing Tron Deadly Discs on the Intellivision! Man, I hate those goddamn orange guys.
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Color of Money
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Good Name. Seriously I an´t wait for this movie and would also love a TRON COMPLETE blu ray.
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Y'know, title character and all that? Unless he's gonna be all Aslan and shit and not pop up until act 3 and then do some internet wreckage with a super-light-emitting-ninja frisbee?
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Because he'll have to look like he did 25 years ago to be CLU.
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Mike Tyson strapping on Jessica Biel's and Elisha Cuthbert's pussies and giving you a rapid fire whomp to your mother FUCKIN' face.
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This is gonna kick electronic ASS!!! I cannot wait to see this!
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sounds pretty interesting. I'm definitely looking forward to this one. My cousin and I will have to go see it and leave the wives at home, since they both hate the original.
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Hell yeah!
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Teaser looks freakin cool, hope the Walt/Carlos electronic score is held over for the movie.
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I much enjoyed that game. Unlike Maze-a-tron. I liked both the original TRON game and the arcade game Discs of TRON, but I might like Discs of TRON a little more.
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That was enough for me.
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What do I have to do to see this movie sooner, put myself in a medically-induced coma until its release date??? Although the ideas posted are a little scattershot, the drive behind them feels like it'll make a good Tron story. Hopefully they get Lisberger to keep them on track, since Tron is a tad allegorical to the way we humans deal with religion and spirituality (programs = people, users = god) which made for a fascinating undercurrent without being rammed down our throats.
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That game was awesome.
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...before AVATAR has a chance to? Or will it be forced to take sloppy seconds?
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I gotta admit, I like the story idea. I love the idea of Flynn disappearing in the prologue and his son growing up to be the new hero. Hopefully the film will be "into" it's own mythology and make Flynn feel like mythic figure while his kid is searching for him.
It's just awesome that Jeff and Bruce are reprising their roles. And I dig the idea of having their Tron Avatars staying young. I think the aging CG technology is still kind of bland. But the strange lighting style of the Tron world should add another buffer that makes the effect look real. I must admit, I'm really looking forward to this one.
I saw Tron in the theaters twice when I was a kid. The second time was in a double feature with Star Wars at the Westlake Village Twin (which is now a Laemle theater). That was the first time I ever saw Star Wars, too :-). Fuzzy memories... -
Do some aerobics, walk around a local track and get yourself back to somewhat healthy. We (the computers) need you.
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I'm pumped!I just love the old TRON movie!
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The man can do no wrong, as far as I'm concerned.
He's The Dude. And The Dude abides. -
Bring back Sark as a computer virus email.
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damn, I can't wait for this
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...in glorious Quicktime?? Fer Christ's sake.
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And god bless him for taking this role, I cannot wait to see his work here. To me it all but ensures a great time at the theater and a worthy follow up. With Bridges so involved its hard to be cynical about the project. Cannot wait.
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When you watch the movie, keep in mind when it was made. The CGI in that film looks awful, but it was revolutionary at the time! If you can get past that, it's a fun movie. If you can't, then don't bother
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They need to release that...it's been floating around forever now and they HAVE to know that the fans want to see a good quality version of it
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My bad, thought it was a movie called Pr0n.
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lollerslow
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Thats like 50 billion years away!
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"TROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNN!!"
The embedded Comicon footage looks good... if not very, very blurry. It should be a fun movie. Looking forward to its' release. Agreed that 2011 is too far off. Here's hoping they finish it early and move up the release date... yeah, right. -
I think it's awesome that by the time this comes out my little girl will be as old as I was when I saw the original! 6! This sounds great like Heart of Darkness meets...TRON! Yes!
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or at least i don't remember seeing it. is it worth my time to grab a copy and watch?
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...your opinion of Tron. This is a movie that you had to grow up with to appreciate properly. and if they want to start drumming up some nerd excitement, they should release that teaser footage in a high quality version...
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That would be fun to see!!!
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Just Clu? Mmmkay...
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fun but hokey and i'm pretty sure i saw it before. those tanks sure look familiar.
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Or any other movie in the pipeline. Loved TRON. Sounds like they are doing this one exactly right, if the description above is correct. I will try not to get my expectation too high, but I loved the original TRON for the world it created, and if this one manages to honor the original, I'm gonna like, pretty much no matter what else they do. And it sounds like they plan on honoring the original.Cool beans.
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Going by those spoilers it seems as though this thing takes place within an old arcade machine? Really? Or am I reading this wrong?
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ie. another kid-saves-the-world-he-has-no-business-being-in film, will they finally please leave Tron alone. That game Tron 2.0 was not so good. No more of that please.
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Mar 02, 2009 8:21:29 PM CST
I am hard right now, my capacitor just overloaded and burst.
by noncents
Woot. I really can't wait.
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you read emails from Alan and Cindy Morgan's character.
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It kills me that I've only see it in postage-stamp-o-vision.
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I just watched the original with my 5 year old this weekend (he loves the lightcycle scenes) and CLU gets 'killed' in the beginning. The MCP is torturing him for information and erases him.
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Fuck George Bush, Fuck Wall Street, Fuck the motherfucking banks, Fuck the people who live beyond thier means, fuck EVERYTHING except bourbon and Valium.
But this movie could raise my spirits.
God damned bullshit! Fuck the ecomony, which is FAKE anyway. Mr. Obama...you'd better make good on all that goodwill you spouted last Tuesday.
Fuck everything except Evan Williams and Diazepam!
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I hate "titles" with the number somehow worked into the name. It is FUCKING DISTRACTING! Not to mention fucking stupid.
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Lamer than Se7en. Sorry, the fucking word is spelled SEVEN. Notice the difference between the V and the 7. Fuckin A, the 2 isn't even close to a O. It's like the fucking tools who abbreviate Microsoft as M$ instead of MS. Oooooh. HOW FUCKING CLEVER! Morons.
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Still having the Game on my shelf.
Clu is hunting ISO's -
TRON: Clu does ISOHunt ?
Is he going to kill Trackers?
What about the Peers?
Well, as long as he doesn't kill ISO's like the C'n'C 1, which is free since their 12th B-Day(same goes for C'n'C:RA). -
I fucking wish! John Y. Brown jr. bought off all of Harlan Sander's interest in the company years ago.
Besides, I'm more of a "Popeye's" gut myself. Their beans & rice kick ass!
KFC hasn't been the same since the mane change (from "Kentucky Fried Chicken" to "KFC"...because they didn't want to associate themselves with "fried" food. Negro, please!). And then when Pepsi bough them, and became YUM....don't even get me started!
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Mar 03, 2009 1:33:47 AM CST
I Demand That The Entire Original Cast Of Tron Be Brought Back..
by media messiah
...for the sequel. They are all alive, attractive...and available for hire, including Cindy Morgan and David Warner. The fans would love it, and I as a fan of the original, would greatly appreciate it.Note To The Powers That Be At Disney: Make It Happen...and Pull-Out All The Stops On This One!!!
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...an even better job...and a good life--but do good things with it, and your life, if that prayer is answered. Oh, one more thing, if you could, pray the same for me, a good career, and a good life. The say God is wherever two people or more, are in prayer together. Well, I'll be praying for you, and hopefully, you for me, and let's both pray for all the good people out there in need, be blessed the same way!!! Keep your head-up, don't give-up...and smile!!!
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I am really looking forward to this, and I agree with Cap' when he posted that under 30 years old have no right to bash the original film. It was groundbreaking at the time.
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You read it here first
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any true chicken conisseur knows that nando's with it peri peri chicken is the new hotness.
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Just kidding....I have been waiting for some cunt to post, "but if you lost your job today, it is really Barrack Hussain Obama's fault...right"
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I would have to walk in and shit on my bosses desk....twice....to get fired. Federal Civil Service!!!!!!
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It's the only reason I'd watch this confusing piece of junk. It sounds even more confusing than the original 1982 one!
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Much obliged, and prayers said.
Haven't heard of nando's, but I'll look for it. Is it on the East coast?
Fortunatly my wife has one of those federal civil service jobs with the Census, and I think she'd get a raise if she shit on her bosses desk...they are kind of perverted those census folks.
I already have one job offer, a dream job in fact, managing a theater once again. The only problem is that my wife's GREAT job will not transfer her to Indy, and then there's the small problem of selling our home for equal to or (pardon me while I stiffle a guffaw) more than we paid for it. This would get me back to within 90 miles of my beloved Louisville, but for now it just dosen't seem in the cards. Speaking of Cards....at least I get to stay home and watch March Madness. The UofL Cardinals are kicking ass, so watch them this year!
Much love to y'all!
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It is sacrilege. All politicians are like smeared streaks of bird excrement on the asphalt of life, compared to Tron.Well, they are pretty much like that, anyway. But especially compared to Tron.Because that's Tron. He fights for the Users.
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I'd love her to be involved in this project.
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Mar 03, 2009 8:58:35 AM CST
How in the hell could you be confused by the 1982 Tron movie?
by mr incredible
The plot is simple enough and easy enough for anyone to follow. Now, calling they movie "TR2N"? That would have been confusing. I'm glad they are dumping that crap.
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It sounds freaking awesome man. If this isn't true is certainly should be!
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or Star Trek.
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Sounds like crap!Give me a remastered version of TRON with updated graphics - not a sequel.Where's Lucas & Spielberg when you need them?
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Ass raping your childhood, that's where. Or laughing all the way to the bank...
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I'm watching the 20th aniversary DVD on my "upscaling" dvd player on my new 46" Samsung LCD. God Damnit does it look fantastic! If you can still find one, the Samsung LNA630 fucking RULES! The LNA650 has a better contrast ratio (50,000:1 as opposed to 40,000:1) but the screen is glossy like a mirror and will reflect any light source in front of it just like a mirror. The 630 has a matte finish which decreases the contrast ratio, but I can keep my lamp on the table with minimum reflection. When you compare stats, most LCDs have a contrast ratio of 7500:1 up to 10,000:1...all I'm saying is my blacks are darker than your blacks. I'm talking Wesley Snipes/Seal black levels, knowhutImean?
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End of Line....
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I mean of course, ONCE AGAIN, bring back the Tron sequel title contest! I'll start...
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Still sucks that they weren't able to work in Cindy Morgan's as Lora. Why couldn't Lora be the mom of the kid? Thanks guys for bringing back It really sucks that they brought back Jeff & Bruce, but not Cindy Morgan.
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This film will do for Tron what Facebook and Myspace have done to the memory of that girl/boy you had a crush on in grade school. See my website for better ideas: www.tronsequel.com
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is Pixar, NeXT, Jurassic Park, Netscape, Yahoo, Quake, Matrix, and the MacBook I'm typing this post on. TRON is not a fucking movie franchise. TRON is a glimpse outside of the cave.
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This movie was way ahead of the curve in 1982 and it still holds it's own. I bet folks talk shit about about ray Harryhausen and his stop motion work. While CG has made stuff easier, it really hasn't made it better in alot of cases
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I would suck a dick to see this movie right NOW and I'm not even gay.
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Like the fans are clamoring for Cindy Morgan- shut your hole!
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Way more excited about this than Avatar.
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Its been almost a goddamn year! They want to promote the film, right?
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Damn good clip
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