‘Tron Legacy’ Tidbits From Actor Michael Sheen
Posted on 24. Feb, 2010 by Golden_Topaz_Eyes_42 in News
Here are some recent comments from Michael on his upcoming role in ‘Tron Legacy’:
Going from Alice in Wonderland to Tron Legacy reminded Sheen of a different sort of wonderland, a digital one. “Similar in a way, isn’t it? Certainly in the first Tron film, Jeff’s [Bridges] character gets kind of sucked into this Wonderland-type place. So there’s a similarity to it. We go back to the world of Tron 28 years later, and technology has moved on. All the same things that we saw in the first Tron film will be there, but it’s just, again, in a new light and with 28 years of technology.”
Sheen said that he serves an important role in the movie. “I run the nightclub,” Sheen said. “I am the host of the nightclub and a showman, this sort of very over-the-top character.”
The nightclub has some retro-Tron cred, too. Steven Lisberger, the original writer/director of Tron, performs a cameo role in the club. “I met Steve,” Sheen revealed. “We’re in the same scenes together, or one of the scenes. He has a little cameo, yeah.”
Will Daft Punk—the music duo who provide the sequel’s soundtrack—perform onscreen in the club, as rumored? Sheen was coy: “I’m not sure,” he said. “I’m not sure.”
