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News briefs: Tron's Flynn Lives; Echo heads to film
In anticipation of its preview of the new Tron movie sequel/reboot at Comic-Con in San Diego in two days, Disney has posted a viral Web site, "Flynn Lives," which fills in some of the backstory of Jeff Bridges' character from the first film after the events in that movie.
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Watchmen producer Lloyd Levin has acquired screen rights to Echo, a comic-book series by Terry Moore, about a photographer who gets doused by liquid metal from a military experiment gone awry and discovers she can now harness the power of a nuclear bomb, Variety reported.
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The Toronto Film Festival has snagged the world preem of Jennifer's Body, starring Megan Fox and helmed by Karyn Kusama (Aeon Flux), to open its popular genre program Midnight Madness Sept. 10, Variety reported; the movie, written by Diablo Cody, opens everywhere Sept. 18.
By Ab4dd0n at 5:52 PM ON 07/21/09
Good for Echo, Terry Moore deserves more recognition, and SiP really could not be made into a movie well.
By shadojakk at 6:27 PM ON 07/21/09
There is also on the viral web site a bug at the bottom. Clicking it will bring up a countdown screen with under 3 days left on it(As of tuesday).
By Braystreet at 6:51 PM ON 07/21/09
They bought the Swedish petroleum corporation of Jennifer's Body?
That doesn't even remotely make sense.
By FresnoTimelord at 7:35 PM ON 07/21/09
Flynn Lives! Woohoo!
My God, this is really happening..we are really getting Tron 2.0! Woohooo!
By BlakOpal at 11:56 PM ON 07/21/09
Dang, now why does the premise of Echo sound so darn familiar.....
Oh wait, I know! (smacks self on forehead with hand)
Captain Atom!
Wonder how long before DC sues.
By Zark at 12:55 PM ON 07/22/09
In case you haven't seen the teaser / test for Tron 2's check it out here!
http://fusionfilter.com/?p=718
By jbhypno at 2:30 PM ON 07/22/09
Around midnight tomorrow night. The address exists not sure how safe it would be there at that time of night.
By skippy at 2:58 PM ON 07/22/09
i saw a dude that looked just like flynn over at the bowling alley, only his hair was longer and he had a beard and looked really stoned.
By Surak at 11:01 AM ON 07/23/09
I saw that dude too, didn't he have a buddy that looked like John Goodman?
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