It’s official: actor Jeff Bridges who starred in the original flick has signed on for Tron 2, or Tr2n as it is named, which is set for a 2011 release date - 29 years after the first film!

Released in 1981 the original Tron boasted some ground-breaking special effects involving gladiatorial battles involving motor bikes amongst others set “inside” a computer making it probably the first virtual reality movie ever. However the film cost a fortune to make and bombed at the box office. In the interim it has however grown in cult status, particularly amongst ageing thirtysomethingers who were impressed with it as kids.

The plot involved a hacker (Bridges) who is “swallowed” into a virtual reality world and has to battle a rogue computer entity with the help of another entity. Thus far only Jeff Bridges (seen most recently as the bad guy in Iron Man) has signed on and there is no word on whether Bruce Boxleitner (who went on to play Sheridan in the epic Babylon 5 TV series) will return.

Tron 2 will be filmed using stop motion capture and will be directed by commercials director Joseph Kosinski who is currently set to helmet the Logan’s Run remake . . .