![]() His father's avatar, known as Clu, is no longer the brave warrior and digital replica of Kevin. Sam is first grouped with other deficient "programs" for inspection, outfitted with a sleek gamer's costume and disc (half memory-storage device, half weapon), and thrust into a world of brutal gladiator games where the only goal is survival and the rules change with each treacherous level. There, Sam discovers his dad's secret underground office and the portal that transports him to the digital grid of Tron, far different now from the utopia his father envisioned. After sabotaging the company's grand operating software launch, Sam is visited by his father's old partner, Alan Bradley (Boxleitner), who has never given up on Kevin.Īlan tells Sam that he's received a mysterious page from Kevin and begs him to go to the old arcade that he frequented as a kid. ![]() ![]() Flash-forward to a 27-year-old Sam Flynn (Hedlund): reckless, bored, apathetic, but a regular chip off the old techie block-a geeky rebel without a cause.Įncom, the developer of the Tron video game, has now become a software hegemony-think Atari meets Apple-and has strayed far from Kevin's principle that software should be open to all. It has been 28 years since the release of the groundbreaking science-fiction adventure "Tron," the story of Kevin Flynn (Bridges), a video-game programmer who gets sucked into the virtual grid of the very game he created, only to disappear forever.
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