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Published on Wednesday, September 5, 2007 - 1:14am |
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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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Reader Talkback
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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