Greeting Programs! There was an Uprising panel at the San Deigo Comic Con yesterday, which I attended. The hall for the panel was a pretty decent size and managed to fill completely. Good to see the support for this show.
On the panel was Elijah Wood, Bruce Boxleitner and Tricia Helfer, along with series director Charlie Bean, consulting producers (and Legacy writing team) Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis, and animation designers Alberto Mielgo and Robert Valley.
They started off with some clips from their new Motor City series, then dove into panel attendee introductions.
Some highlights:
- It's very obvious all these guys have a strong passion for Uprising, and are determined to create a deep mythology for Tron. They consider Uprising an official part of that history.
- The two Legacy writers noted they were hard at work on a sequel to Legacy.
- Tricia Helfer was happy to demonstrate some lines from the show in her cheerful/chilling voice. She hadn't watched the original before signing on to the cast and asked what Tron fans called themselves. She suggested "Tronnies" (I think it was Boxleitner who made a "Trannies" joke here). Elijah Wood said he had heard someone in the audience use "Programs" instead, which got a big applause.
- They played a clip of some upcoming episodes and promised we'd get some backstory on how it was that Tron turns into Rinzler. I believe we'll be seeing how he got his scar as well.
- During the Q&A portion someone asked about getting a soundtrack. The director acknowledged that the composer was doing a fantastic job and he hoped we'd eventually get a soundtrack. Said they'd finish up the first season before anything like that happened, however.
Everyone in the audience was given raffle tickets - at the end of the panel each person on stage drew a number from a bowl and handed the winners a heavily autographed identity disc. There was also a final drawing for the gigantic Uprising poster that was used as a backdrop for the stage. They had a really good time drawing names. Elijah suggested all panels should have a raffle and that when they were done with the identity discs they'd done another round and raffle themselves off (big applause).
Boxleitner drew a ticket that had no winner and loudly announce "I drew a blank? Really? But I'm TRON!" (stood up and struck a heroic pose). Hilarious. His second attempt also had no winner ("I'm shooting blanks!").
Disney XD has posted up a short very video of the event here:
Disneyabcvideo.com
