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The first and official trailer for Tron Legacy has been added to the Video Gallery.

Starring Garrett Hedlund, Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, Olivia Wilde, Beau Garrett and of course Michael Sheen – Tron Legacy is the long anticipated sequel to the original Tron film of 1982.

The original film was a huge hit with sci-fi fans because of its cutting edge technology. It looks like that tradition has been kept, along with the look and feel of the original such as the neon colours, and the 3D graphical cyber-world.

Kevin Flynn was the hacker/programmer that was digitized and re-constituted in a digital world. There he battled the MCP (MasterControlProgram) along with Tron, a program that he, Flynn, had written. The MCP was defeated, and Flynn made it back to the real world. However, almost 30 years later – he is missing, and his son, played by Hedlund, is looking for him.

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Also, for those eager to get a first glimpse at Michael, here are a couple of screen grabs that I have now added to the photo Gallery.

Over the weekend, Disney have hosted a screenings where the official trailer for Tron Legacy was watched by a small group of fans as culmination to a week of viral campaigning .

According to ComingSoon.net

“a white-haired most-likely villain (who may very well have been Michael Sheen; Kosinksi [the director] said that he was in the trailer and that his character is barely recognizable”

You will be able to see the trailer for yourself as it is attached to Alice In Wonderland

As reported previously, the binary countdown at flynnlives.com/ZeroHour/ finished today at 4pm (GMT).

Several days ago, a number of city names appeared at the bottom of the screen, including London. It was initially rumoured that the countdown would result in the release of the first official Tron Legacy trailer. Other rumours have been that there would be appearances of Tron characters at each of the locations mentioned.

What it actually was was even cooler than any of the rumours. The site says

“We are deploying envoys to 27 locations around the world and we need you to meet up with the Flynn Lives contact in your area. Check the link below to find out when and where this rendezvous will take place. Then, get ready to hit the streets.”

Each of the cites has a location listed, with a message that says to find the ‘operative’ in a Flynn Lives t-shirt, and give them the password.

You are then given a code as there is a space on the site for you to enter this secret code. What it will reveal I do not know.

At the time of posting this the London information is not visible.

Some entertainment sites are reporting receiving gifts from ‘Flynn Lives’. The gift includes a hand written note with the words ‘/zerohour’.  When you put them together you get Flynnlives/zerohour. This features a countdown of some description.

The guys over at /Film have figured out it is a binary countdown, calculated to end February 24th at 8:00am Pacific Time (4pm GMT).

The feeling is this will lead to a new trailer.

Kevin Flynn is the character played by Jeff Bridges in the original 1982 movie, in which his character was sucked into a cyber world where he had to help a program that he had created, called Tron, to defeat a master control program.  Flynn escaped his cyber prison at the end of the movie, but in the interim years has gone missing and in the sequel, Tron Legacy, his son Sam (played by Garrett Hedlund) is trying to solve the mystery of his disappearance.

Michael is reputed to play a nightclub host in the cyber world.

Dark Horizons.com have been doing a feature highlighting films to look out for in 2010.  ‘The Special Relationship’ was featured the other day, and in the most recent episode they have both Tron Legacy and Unthinkable.

Sadly, they reveal nothing new about Michael’s role in Tron Legacy.

“Michael Sheen will serve as the film’s villain, a night club owner inside the Tron world rather than a new version of the MCP [Master Control Program] as previously rumoured.”

For Unthinkable they touch on the topic of its delayed release.

“Originally slated to be released through the now defunct Senator Distribution, the project went on the block at the AFM in November. Several international territories are set, but the film has yet to be picked up for US distribution inspite of the involvement of the likes of Sheen and Jackson.”

Source: Dark Horizons

Walt Disney Productions and LivePlanet have released three new images for Tron Legacy, the sequel to the 1982 classic, Tron.  The new poster has now been added to the Tron Legacy project page.

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There is a brief video interview of Michael Sheen talking to Collider.com about his role in Tron Legacy now in up the Video Gallery.

Michael talks to ITN News about his role in Tron Legacy while he was at the GQ Awards.  He is very tight-lipped and does not reveal any more than what we already know, but he assures us that even though his part is small, you can’t miss him.

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Because the Toronto International Film Festival is now in full flow, there has been a few articles in the press about Michael Sheen.  In an interview with ComingSoon.net, he reveals he will play a nightclub host in Tron: Legacy. Sadly, this probably means his is only a small part.

That was amazing, because there’s a lot of green screen in that. But my stuff was mainly in this amazing set that they built because I’m a nightclub host, so they built the nightclub and there were hundreds of extras and it was one of those great scenes where there’s just loads going on.

Links to all the recent articles are in our Press Page, or you can click on the links below.

• ComingSoon.net – Who is Michael Sheen in Tron Legacy?
• FilmStew.com – The Man With The Golden Scriptwriter
• DailyMail – Michael sheds ghost of  Blair for bloodthirsty vampire
• ENT – Damned United’s Sheen is  a real-life soccer talent

It has been announced that Tron Legacy has a release date of December 17th 2010.

Almost 30 years after the original film came out in 1982, the long anticipated sequel starring original cast member Jeff Bridges, who reprises his role as Flynn, will feature Michael Sheen as a yet unnamed character.

Source: Den of Geek