If you want to know more about the latest huge casting news for the upcoming “Tron” sequel, you’ll have to tune in this Saturday for Slice of SciFi #135.
Until then, we’ve got a few tidbits about what you can expect to see when the long-awaited sequel hits the big-screen, courtesy of actress, Olivia Wilde. Wilde was recently announced as one of two female leads in the upcoming “Tron” sequel and spoke to SciFi Wire about what fans can expect.
Wilde confirmed that Bruce Boxleitner will return for the sequel as the title character. She also said that director Joseph Kosinski is building massive sets to represent the virtual universe of Tron, rather than shooting the entire project against green-screens and that the face-replacement computer technology used in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” will be used for “Tron.”
“We saw an incredible advancement in technology with the use of the face replacement in ‘Benjamin Button’, and I think that is marking some of what’s to come, and certainly in the direction of ;Tron,'” Wilde said. “Just as far as people being incredibly innovative and taking huge steps forward as far as using technology to create alternative realities. And 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.”
As for filming on real sets, as opposed to a green-screen, Wilde says she believes this will help in creating the universe of 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,” she said. ” I think, for a lot of the characters, the world of Tron is their only world, and they don’t know anything beyond it, and creating a world of Tron that is as intricate and solid as possible kind of helps that along. And I think it’s interesting, because it means that when they actually created us a set, they can be as detailed, and they can use reflections of things. Once you get into the world of CGI, it’s more difficult.”
As for her character, Wilde says she can’t reveal much about who she will play. According to reports, Wilde will play someone who works in the virtual world to defeat the Master Control Program.   However, Wilde insists that isn’t an accurate description of her character.
“I’m so excited I wish I could just unload the whole thing on you,” she said. ” I tell you, it’s not a great description. I don’t know who made it up. Someone’s grasping for straws there.”
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