While all the buzz around the nerd-nets recently has been surrounding Tron Legacy, the sequel to the 1982 hit film, AICN has uncovered some information about a possible Blu-ray release of the original feature!
It’s a fact that Legacy will be hitting the big screen on December 17, 2010, so it’s not such a stretch to assume that the original Tron will be released on Blu around the same time. From the sounds of it, production of an updated, re-mastered edition of the film has just been completed, overseen by Tron creator Steven Lisberger. From the AICN source:
- “It turns out my buddy and I were sitting right in front of Lisberger and we overheard him talking about how he just finished over-seeing complete color-correction and major enhancements to the original TRON for BLU RAY! It sounded like he basically kept the movie the same (no CGI inserted) but corrected the colors throughout the entire film and enhanced everything. He said it was a dream to go back to something he made thirty years ago and correct it to look exactly how he would want it for the Blu Ray release (which he made no mention of when that would happen). Anyway, Lisberger never mentioned any of that in the Q and A and I thought you guys would want to know about it.”
As further confirmation that there is a new HD transfer of the 1982 film, Tron will be airing on HD Net in the USA tonight.
Expect a Blu-ray announcement sometime this summer!
just saw the HDnet showing of tron and IMO it was super “Grainy” but it does have that “Film Look”, the color’s did POP. it was cool looking.