“In June, Disney XD rolls out — Light-Cycle style —TRON: Uprising, a new animated series that plugs fans back into the computer world first dreamed up in the 1980s.
The voice cast includes Elijah Wood, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Mandy Moore, Nate Corddry, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reubens (aka Pee-Wee Herman), Reginald VelJohnson and the dude who originated the role of Tron way back when, Bruce Boxleitner.
Uprising takes place between the original 1982 TRON movie — which featured a computer hacker Kevin Flynn (played by Jeff Bridges) getting taken to a living arcade game of high-tech gladiatorial combat — and the recent 2010 sequel TRON: Legacy that focused on his son Sam (Garrett Hedlund) fighting an evil cloned version of his dad named Clu.
The new series stars Beck (Wood), a young program who leads his family and world in revolution against the tyrannical Clu and his No. 2, General Tesler (Henriksen). Fortunately, Beck has been trained to fight by the top warrior in all of this digitized world, Tron (Boxleitner).
Fans first had a glimpse at TRON: Uprising with a special feature on the TRON: Legacy DVD and Blu-ray, and the series will use a combination of 2-D and computer-generated animation.” USA Today 4/16/12
I’ll have to get Joe to pull out the Blu-Ray and take a look at that special feature.
