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The problem with growing up is that you start to realize that while some things worked for you as a kid, some no longer do. That’s how I felt watching “The Phantom Menace”, and I felt that the people that made films in the 80′s struck gold at a time which we can never go back to because we’ve all seen it before. I had a completely different experience watching “Tron Legacy”. After years of hype which included a staged Encom press conference, the younger side of me who thought it was cool for Disney to stage all that was fighting with the older side who kept whispering in my ear “it’s all smoke and mirrors”. Fortunately, the creative team behind “Tron Legacy” put together a well-made sequel to the 1982 film and my older side was wrong for a change.
When Tron Legacy was announced at Comicon in 2008, I was ecstatic. My first thought was: who was going to do the music? If the creative minds behind the sequel were going to go the same route as the original film, the composer would need to be someone who has a background in electronic music. My first thought was maybe Vangelis or Jean Michel Jarre, artists with electronic and film composition backgrounds. I couldn’t pinpoint anyone that’s been doing experimental electronic music the same way as it was done in 1982, so perhaps they were going to go with a more seasoned composer like James Newton Howard or Michael Giacchino. When Daft Punk was announced as the composers of the new film, I panicked. They weren’t well known for movie scores, so I assumed that maybe they were going to make the movie into a giant music video. Wendy Carlos’ music complimented the environment of the computer landscape very well, but she never wrote dance music.
Today, Disney unveiled the latest trailer for its sequel to 1982′s “Tron”. Named “Tron Legacy”, it shows how Kevin Flynn’s son Sam finds his father’s equipment from Encom hidden in the back of the old arcade, and gets sucked into the world that his father seemingly hasn’t been able to escape from.
