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Bad. Ass. You San Diego Comic-Con goers can keep your surprise screenings and your exclusive reveals. We viewers at home have "Tron Legacy" footage and I, for one, am satisfied. And by "satisfied" I mean "my brain just overloaded after seeing the Kickass on display in this video."

It's not quite a trailer, what you see here. Disney has it labeled "Visual Effects Concept Test Footage." If memory serves, this is the revelatory footage screened at last year's Con, with lightcycle action and Jeff Bridges looking all mean and bearded. Remember to head over to MTV.com for more SDCC trailers and clips!

Alice in WonderlandSan Diego Comic-Con has sadly preempted some of my daily features here on MTV Movies Blog (sorry Prop-Watch, Around the Blogosphere), but the avalanche of coverage makes this a good week to launch a new one. Every Friday, I'll be running through the preceding week's top stories (Friday through Friday, FYI) on MTV Movies Blog. As you might expect, a lot of the most clicked content for the week relates in some way to San Diego Comic-Con. Don't take my word for it though; let's let the list tell the tale.

Counting down of course...

#10 "Tron Legacy" Panel Report Fresh From San Diego Comic-Con -- Just as the title suggests, one of our writers on the ground at Comic-Con runs through the highlights of the "Tron Legacy" panel. Read more...

"Tron Legacy" stars Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde took some time from their busy San Diego Comic-Con schedules to go one-on-one with MTV yesterday. All of this may be old hat for Bridges, who played the central character in the original movie, but Hedlund and Wilde come to Disney's sequel with their childhood memories intact. Imagine the thrill they must have felt then at handling a Disc of Tron for the first time. Or climbing into a Lightcycle. I get chills just thinking about it, and they've lived it.

Head over to MTV.com for more video coverage on the ground at San Diego Comic-Con 2009!

Tron Legacy

One of the most anticipated films of 2011 is "Tron Legacy," the sequel to the 1982 sci-fi movie "Tron." Disney didn't disappoint fans during their 3-D panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday.

Filmmakers and members of the cast, including Jeff Bridges reprising his role as Kevin Flynn, introduced footage revealing that the story revolves around Kevin's son Sam.

"I go on search for my father and find myself in this crazy world," said actor Garrett Hedlund, who plays Sam Flynn.

What he finds is that the world of Tron has been sitting on a server and in that time has evolved on its own. "It's become darker and more realistic, feeling more like a photo surreal environment," director Joe Kosinski said. Read more...

TronDid you hear? The "Tron" sequel has a title! It's "Tron Legacy." Good stuff, right? Better than "Tr2n," at any rate. Even if that number-letter fusion was the real title, I'd be psyched. "Tron" is one of my favorite Disney flicks, right up there with "Alice in Wonderland" and "Robin Hood." It's definitely my favorite live-action Disney.

Today's eBay Prop-Watch pick is not a prop, no sir. It's ten different kinds of awesome though, especially since you can actually play with the darn thing. In the spirit of "Tron"'s official naming, I present to you... well... keep reading. That's how this whole thing works: first I tease, then I deliver the goods. Read more...

Tron LegacyWhat, you thought I'd put it in the headline? That's the whole story! Be happy I'm not rambling on for two paragraphs and then burying the title after the jump. So do you wanna know? Huh? Okay. Here goes...

"Tron Legacy"

There you have it folks. Update your tags, file your wiki edits, earmark the change in your brains. It's not the "Tron" sequel anymore. Not "Tron 2." Certainly not lameass "Tr2n" (whew). It's "Tron Legacy." Bask in the joy of it all.

The world-famous San Diego Comic-Con began in 1970 under the less-catchy name Golden State Comic Book Convention. Just 300 people showed. 29 years later, it's an explosion of merch, fanboys and fangrrls in or out of costume, video game goodies, movie marketing and boatloads of journalists.

Even before last year's "Twilight" mayhem, Comic-Con was a big attraction for major movie studios looking for a captive audience. People eager to see teaser trailers and watch panels featuring their favorite directors and actors. Superhero flicks or not, it's all about the geek culture.

Even though the hardcore comics fans groan about their hallowed halls being invaded by stampeding game geeks and RPattz fans, it's really win-win for everyone. As movies, comic books and video games become increasingly intertwined, it's only natural that the wider film-loving would be as interested in Neil Gaiman as they are in Guillermo del Toro. So even if you're not on the hunt for a mint condition "Swamp Thing" signed by Alan Moore, there's still plenty for you movie fans to see and do. Read more...

'Tron'Trooooooon! Say it like you’re James T. Kirk shaking your fist at genetically-engineered mortal enemy Khaaaaaaaaaaan!

That was my reaction the first time I heard about Disney’s planned sequel to “Tron,” the classic 1982 sci-fi adventure about a man named Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) who is electronically trapped by an evil artificial intelligence inside a computer mainframe. And it still captures how pumped I am for the new film which, as producer Sean Bailey confirmed to MTV News, will honor the roots of the original—lightcycles, tanks and more—while acting as what he termed a “stand-alone sequel.”

“You don’t have to know the ’82 movie to come in and appreciate and enjoy this one,” he explained. “That said, we accept what happened in the ’82 movie happened in ’82. Our movie is set in 2010. We built a mythology that spans the intervening 28 years of, ‘Here’s what we think happened with Kevin Flynn and with [nefarious software corporation] ENCOM and all those principle characters. Here’s what we think happened inside the Tron universe and in the real world.” Read more...

Bruce LeeToday's Dailies brings with it a truly random sampling of news. There's a bit of Disney, a bit of Ayn Rand, some "Lesbian Vampire Killers" and even a touch of Bruce Lee. And yes, there's "Tron" viral goodness as well. Can you handle it all?

-- Two stages of Bruce Lee news from Variety. The late martial arts master's family is currently getting nunchuks spinning for a three-part Lee biopic. The role of the "Enter the Dragon" star has not yet been cast, but Lee's father will be played by Tony Leung Ka-fai. Also confirmed is director Manfred Wong and producer Li Chen. Plans call for the movie to be released on November 27, 2010, which would be Lee's 70th birthday. In related news, the Hong Kong government has launched a design competition for a planned Lee museum. (Variety) Read more...

TronOur Comic-Con preview continues today with what is surely one of the most anticipated films of the San Diego gathering: Disney's updated take on 1982’s man-in-the-machine mind-frak "Tron." Quite a change from 2008’s "Tron" at Con brain-melting bombshell.

“Last year we had the benefit of surprise,” "Tron" producer Sean Bailey told MTV News. “We had some visual test stuff to show that no one knew we had [prepared], which is really fun to be able to surprise a crowd that is pretty much unsurprise-able.”

That visual test showed off a high-tech clip of a lightcycle race—a take on one of the many iconic scenes from the original film—and the crowd went wild. Cut to 2009: with the “Tron” shoot having wrapped in Vancouver just a week ago, the task for filmmakers is both the same and quite different: everyone is well aware of a new “Tron” and there’s not a ton of complete footage available to show off. Read more...