The Hollywood Reporter brings news that Garrett Hedlund (Georgia Rule and Four Brothers) beat out the likes of Ryan Gosling, Michael Stahl-David and Chris Pine for the lead role in Disney’s Tron for director Joseph Kosinski.
The sequel to the 1982 feature starring Jeff Bridges will center on a man (Hedlund) who finds himself pulled into the world of a computer and retracing the steps of a character from the original movie named Kevin Flynn (Bridges). Bridges is reprising the role of Flynn, who was a computer programmer but ended up as the CEO of a software corporation. Olivia Wilde and Beau Garrett have also been cast in the project, which was known as Tron 2 and Tr2n but it now going with the simple Tron.
Speaking of Wilde, the “House M.D.” actress spoke with Sci-Fi Wire and gave the following quote regarding the project and its director:
“The film will be just as impressive for our time as it was in 1982 for the original. The technological advances have, of course, been enormous, and the effects that we have access to have been so revolutionary… I think that it’s really going to please people that it’s going to be just as kind of huge and shocking and just as much of a new movie-watching experience as the first one was.”
“They’re going to build a huge amount of the set. The director, Joe Kosinski, has made some unbelievable commercials. People can check out his Web site. He’s just a really talented guy. And he’s a really big fan of using as much sets as you can, because he’s an architect as well, so he likes to build these worlds. And with something like Tron, I think it helps to create the environment as much as possible without too much green screen so that these characters can exist within this world… with the feel … as real as possible.”
Get the rest of that interview here.
Tron is expected to begin shooting in the spring for an anticipated 2010 release.
