aaamusic | On 27, Sep 2010

Film opens in the UK on Friday 17^th December

The highly anticipated original motion picture score for TRON: Legacy, composed and produced by the iconic Grammy® Award winning duo Daft Punk, will be released by Walt Disney Records on Monday, November 22nd, 2010.  Walt Disney Pictures’ ‘TRON: Legacy’ hits UK cinemas on December 17, 2010, in Disney Digital 3D™ and IMAX® 3D.

Having grown up with admiration of Disney’s groundbreaking original 1982 film ‘TRON’, Daft Punk took on the scoring of the next chapter of the story with extraordinary thought and precision. The duo assembled a symphony of one hundred musicians and recorded the orchestra at AIR Lyndhurst Studios in London.  From Daft Punk’s first single release in 1993, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter were hailed as a new breed of electronic music innovators.  Following their seminal debut album Homework in 1997 on Virgin Records, the band went on to release two more studio albums for Virgin – Discovery in 2001 and  Human After All in 2005 – and two live albums (Alive 1997, Alive 2007).   Daft Punk are known as much for their music and technical innovation as their groundbreaking and elaborate visual universe, which centres around their irrepressible and mysterious Robot personas.   In 2006, their directorial art house film debut, ‘Electroma’, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival,  and in 2007 they toured internationally with a live show that was an awe inspiring combination of their musical and visual prowess.    Daft Punk’s collaboration with Kanye West on his number one US hit single ‘Stronger’ was hailed as The Song of the Year by SPIN Magazine (January 2008 issue), and the band went on to perform with West on the Grammy Awards in 2008, marking the mercurial duo’s first and only television appearance anywhere in the world.

‘TRON: Legacy’ will mark Daft Punk’s first film score.  A 3D high tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), a rebellious 27 year old, is haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his father Kevin Flynn (Oscar®- and Golden Globe®-winner Jeff Bridges), a man once known as the world’s leading video game developer.  When Sam investigates a strange signal sent from the old Flynn’s Arcade—a signal that could only come from his father—he finds himself pulled into a digital world where Kevin has been trapped for 20 years.  With the help of the fearless warrior Quorra (Olivia Wilde), father and son embark on a life and death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe—a universe created by Kevin himself that has become far more advanced with never-before-imagined vehicles, weapons, landscapes and a ruthless villain who will stop at nothing to prevent their escape.