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Oh my God! TRON's Steve Liseberger finally getting behind the camera again!!!

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with some hopefully awesome news. TRON is incredibly beloved by a whole generation of geeks and nerds. I'm one of them. I have a beautiful Australian one-sheet for the movie framed in the bedroom. Chick magnet, right?

Anyway, since my earliest days on AICN I've heard about various projects Steve Lisberger (director of TRON) had been trying to get off the ground, including proposed sequels to TRON. Now it looks like he might have caught his break and gotten a chance to direct his first film in almost 20 years. It's not a sequel or a reimagining. It's a new flick called SOUL CODE. Variety has a story on it! Read below for an excerpt!!

The pioneering writer-director of 1982's "Tron" has sold "Soul Code," a futuristic tale he penned at the instigation of IGN hostess Jessica Chobot, to Reliant Pictures for mid-six figures.

Lisberger will direct the story of a tech pioneer who has perfected a way to download and transfer a person's memory. Script examines what happens when her memory is placed into a much younger woman's body.

"The same way 'Tron' was ahead of its time, this is way ahead of its time," said Reliant topper Thom Mount, who will tap into the shingle's credit facility with Allied Irish Bank to finance the production.

Don't really know enough about it to get super depressed or super excited, but I can say I really want to see what a Lisberger film looks like in today's filmmaking world. What about you guys?


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whoa
by Biafras Throw Pillow
Sep 5th, 2007
01:25:38 AM
Tron 2.0
by Biafras Throw Pillow
Sep 5th, 2007
01:27:37 AM
I want Tron 2: electronic bugaboo!
by Zardoz
Sep 5th, 2007
01:28:19 AM
hope his story telling becomes more dynamic, thrilling
by George Newman
Sep 5th, 2007
01:28:29 AM
We need more sci-fi films that are intelligent.
by LoneGun
Sep 5th, 2007
01:30:20 AM
I didn't say first
by Biafras Throw Pillow
Sep 5th, 2007
01:30:45 AM
Just saw TRON in 70MM !!!
by TheRealSeveren
Sep 5th, 2007
01:30:51 AM
Animalympics 2
by Lenny Nero
Sep 5th, 2007
01:33:13 AM
Not a very interesting premise to me...
by TheRealSeveren
Sep 5th, 2007
01:38:03 AM
No more TRON
by Gorrister
Sep 5th, 2007
01:57:01 AM
WTF? Original? Ahead of it's time?!
by half vader
Sep 5th, 2007
02:01:38 AM
Sounds like the plot of a porno
by Mullah Omar
Sep 5th, 2007
02:02:43 AM
"I Will Fear No Evil"
by Gorrister
Sep 5th, 2007
02:12:44 AM
sci-fi body switch movie
by hktelemacher
Sep 5th, 2007
02:23:07 AM
Light Cycles...
by shmu65
Sep 5th, 2007
02:25:14 AM
Strange Days
by Midol Boy
Sep 5th, 2007
02:25:58 AM
good luck tron-dude
by TheDohDoh
Sep 5th, 2007
02:32:18 AM
Yep, we want Tron 2.0
by Doc_Strange
Sep 5th, 2007
02:34:26 AM
Biafras Throw Pillow
by FILMFUNK
Sep 5th, 2007
02:37:42 AM
htelemaker
by half vader
Sep 5th, 2007
02:42:02 AM
Chobot inspired something other than a boner?
by Thick McRunFast
Sep 5th, 2007
02:46:45 AM
The videogame Tron 2.0 is the sequel to Tron.
by Ayii
Sep 5th, 2007
03:37:00 AM
Yes, she inspired a website
by Orionsangels
Sep 5th, 2007
03:41:12 AM
Wow, a blog template
by Thick McRunFast
Sep 5th, 2007
03:56:20 AM
Screw this, gimme Tron 2.0
by Hamtaro_Hentai
Sep 5th, 2007
04:08:52 AM
Sorry, kiddies
by Mister Man
Sep 5th, 2007
04:18:53 AM
Why do Variety...
by 11dayempire
Sep 5th, 2007
04:27:52 AM
Sounds a lot like "Brainstorm"...
by The Ape Giggins
Sep 5th, 2007
04:34:53 AM
The TRON 2.0 game woul've been a good sequel...
by chumpmonkey
Sep 5th, 2007
04:35:34 AM
HOT PURSUIT
by WONKABAR
Sep 5th, 2007
05:29:56 AM
No idea who this Chobot chick is....
by Judge Dredds Dirty Undies
Sep 5th, 2007
05:34:39 AM
"Chobot" ???
by Cagliostro
Sep 5th, 2007
06:28:07 AM
"Soul Code," sounds like the 2.0 version of Soul Plane
by Pound Sand
Sep 5th, 2007
06:49:45 AM
Just found the SOUL CODE trailer online!
by Abin Sur
Sep 5th, 2007
07:02:37 AM
Jessica Chobot...
by team america
Sep 5th, 2007
07:18:35 AM
Chobot's a Whore.
by Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World
Sep 5th, 2007
07:22:13 AM
Yes, this is definitely BRAINSTORM...
by cornponious
Sep 5th, 2007
07:39:51 AM
Strange Days
by kwisatzhaderach
Sep 5th, 2007
07:40:11 AM
I want TRON 2.0, not a remake of strange days!
by ATARI
Sep 5th, 2007
08:47:13 AM
Shame he waited 20 years
by judderman
Sep 5th, 2007
09:01:02 AM
Is there a reason...
by HitchCock'n'Balz
Sep 5th, 2007
09:35:23 AM
Tron 3: End of motherfucking Line
by Stuntcock Mike
Sep 5th, 2007
09:43:39 AM
Tron 2: MCP's on a Solar Sailor
by uss cygnus
Sep 5th, 2007
09:56:52 AM
Tron 2: More RAM
by uss cygnus
Sep 5th, 2007
09:58:22 AM
Sark has chosen HD-DVD. Here's Why...
by uss cygnus
Sep 5th, 2007
09:59:30 AM
RIP OFF!!
by sagebirt
Sep 5th, 2007
10:46:23 AM
Greetings, program
by Heckles
Sep 5th, 2007
11:09:47 AM
Greetings, program
by Heckles
Sep 5th, 2007
11:09:50 AM
Ever see that movie Tron...?
by Osmosis Jones
Sep 5th, 2007
11:25:27 AM
Noticed the resemblence to Brainstorm too
by skimn
Sep 5th, 2007
11:27:12 AM
TRON rocks!
by Motoko Kusanagi
Sep 5th, 2007
11:43:18 AM
Didn't Lisberger also direct...
by Quasimike
Sep 5th, 2007
11:45:11 AM
Look. This... is all a mistake!
by Motoko Kusanagi
Sep 5th, 2007
11:46:22 AM
How will it look?
by skimn
Sep 5th, 2007
11:47:36 AM
I guess the MCP also has 7,000 MySpace friends
by Motoko Kusanagi
Sep 5th, 2007
11:49:23 AM
Is this the long awaited sequel to Soul Plane?
by boba_rob
Sep 5th, 2007
11:49:55 AM
You know what else is a chick magnet......
by Loosejerk
Sep 5th, 2007
11:56:52 AM
Tron 2.0 will get ruined
by SPECTRE007
Sep 5th, 2007
12:03:46 PM
soul code
by ironic_name
Sep 5th, 2007
12:28:54 PM
brainstorm
by Dollar Bird
Sep 5th, 2007
12:31:10 PM
But will it have a giant giant giant door?
by Unmutual
Sep 5th, 2007
12:33:56 PM
Tron poster hanging in your bedroom?
by ewokstew
Sep 5th, 2007
01:05:57 PM
Hey Steve, how about a 2-Disc S.E. DVD of "Slipstream"?
by MaxHunter73
Sep 5th, 2007
01:06:22 PM
Wendy Carlos
by Ray Gamma
Sep 5th, 2007
01:33:49 PM
I want Sci-Fi Reimaginging,
by Diagnostic
Sep 5th, 2007
02:29:08 PM
TRONNNNN!!!!!!!!
by Leafy McPlantsalot
Sep 5th, 2007
03:22:39 PM
TRON Is One Of These Movies That We Love...
by Buzz Maverik
Sep 5th, 2007
04:26:16 PM
Leafy McPlant
by skimn
Sep 5th, 2007
05:48:46 PM
Tron off the rails same time as the light cycles
by DarthCorleone
Sep 5th, 2007
05:58:21 PM
TRON Pwns THE MATRIX
by LaserPants
Sep 5th, 2007
06:40:55 PM
Hopefully his new flick won't be brain dead, too.
by Bob Cryptonight
Sep 5th, 2007
08:15:21 PM
TRON Is A Prophecy Of A New Age In 32k Or Less
by LaserPants
Sep 5th, 2007
09:13:10 PM
Plot sounds like a Rob Schneider movie.
by scrivener
Sep 5th, 2007
09:36:29 PM
SOULPLANE 2: SOULCODE
by LaserPants
Sep 5th, 2007
09:47:50 PM
GRID BUGS N THE HOOD
by uss cygnus
Sep 5th, 2007
10:18:31 PM
Aaaaaah whatever
by boogy110
Sep 5th, 2007
10:30:31 PM
OVER? KA-PUT?!
by LaserPants
Sep 6th, 2007
05:50:14 AM
TRON is a legend
by NEUR0M4NCER
Sep 6th, 2007
01:49:44 PM
Yes. Pioneering. We Never Saw Freaky Friday
by www.valiens.com
Sep 6th, 2007
03:20:20 PM
Tron Reboot
by kevinwillis.net
Sep 6th, 2007
11:08:05 PM

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