Tron 2 Spoilers! DO NOT READ THIS STORY!

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I knew some of you would. Just to be extra safe the spoilers are linked so you have to go check it out. If you post spoilers when you come back please use spoiler tags!

You fool! I told you not to click on it! Now you've gone and ruind everything! Cincity2000.com has a big old post containing a ton of spoilers for Tron 2.

I have no idea what those spoilers are because there's no way in hell I'm going to ruin anything Tron related for myself. It was my favorite movie as a kid when I saw it in the theater, it was my favorite part of the old People Mover ride at Disneyland, it was one of my favorite 80's video games, and I'm stoked as hell to see the sequel. So I have no clue if anny of this is even true or not.

But here's what they do say before they get into the script:

A look at an early draft of Tron 2 reveals a script filled with problems and potential.

It's a sequel in the Die Hard 2 sense of the term. Meaning, it's less a pure continuation of the original narrative – like The Empire Strikes Back – and more a dutiful remake told on a larger scale and with a bigger budget. You know, like most sequels.
I don't begrudge it for being that. I love the original Tron, but my biggest problem with it is its length. It's too short by half an hour. Steven Lisberger, the animator and brains behind the 1982 cult classic, undoubtedly poured most of his budget into Jeff Bridges' salary and the movie's fantastic bleeding-edge CGI. He probably had to keep it short and sweet.

But man – Lisberger packed his original movie with invention. Over the years, we've seen dozens of movies revisit virtual reality, cyberspace and the basic idea of going inside a computer, from the terrible (The Lawnmower Man) to the great (The Matrix), but Lisberger's movie has retained a lot of its charm over the years for its simple conceit that the programs we write have lives of their own, all without us knowing it. I wanted to see more of that world. It's worth exploring again, though the draft of Tron 2 I read didn't explore this world – or the interesting ideas Lisberger introduced – with the depth I'd like to see.

Before I go on, let's get the caveats out of the way. Richard Jeffries receives sole writing credit on the draft I read, though the IMDb lists Lost scribe Edward Kitsis as a writer, too. In addition, the lead role in this draft is a young programmer named Rush, while the Hollywood trades have confirmed that Garrett Hedlund is set to play the movie's lead: young programmer Sean Flynn, son to the Jeff Bridges character from the orignal.
I suspect that the production team reworked the Rush character to be Flynn's son, and it's a good call. Rush is your typical eager young code monkey, and it probably didn't take much work to give him an interesting relationship with his father, who shows up midway through the story – but more on that later.

So just remember, if you click HERE to read any spoilers, this is an early draft and many, many things can change from an early draft until the film's completion.

But you still shouldn't have clicked into the article. You readers never listen to me.

I personally am going to stay away from the spoilers (but there out there if you want to check them out)