Joseph Kosinski Talks Tron Legacy

With Tron Legacy out this Christmas, first-time director Joseph Kosinski has spoken about his approach to the 3D sequel.

Talking indepth to MTV, Kosinski revealed that the film won’t be entirely a three-dimensional world. “Our approach is not like Avatar, which I think is 3-D from the first shot to the last,” he said. “Ours is sort of a Wizard of Oz approach. Ninety-eight percent of the 3D is in the world of Tron. The 3D really starts once we get into the Tron world.”

Disney are releasing the sequel to the classic 1982 sci-fi film Tron on Boxing Day, with a brand new image released above. The director commented on the nods to the first film that will be included: “We’ve taken the events of the first movie as historical facts. In our story, Kevin Flynn [Jeff Bridges] emerged from his first experience as CEO of ENCOM and actually released the Tron video game based on his experiences in the first movie.”

The new plot concerns Kevin’s 27 year-old son Sam trying to find him, and Kosinski added: “Sam Flynn [Garrett Hedlund], in searching for his father, has to retrace his steps and comes upon clues and places that we visited in the first film, like Flynn’s Arcade.”

With Daft Punk excitingly creating an original score for the film, the director reminisced about his meeting with the duo: “We met for pancakes at the 101 Coffee Shop in L.A. one morning. These guys take Tron very seriously. Obviously, Tron was a huge influence on them. It was almost like they were interviewing me to make sure that I was going to hold up to the Tron legacy,” he revealed. “But the more we talked, we realized that creatively, we were totally synced up. I’ve been working on it with them for over a year and a half. I don’t know of a movie where you’re working on the soundtrack months before you start filming. The level of integration between the music and the film is incredibly strong.”