Tron: Legacy x Daft Punk

Sorry, maar na die ft. David Cross van de vorige post was het toch echt tijd voor het universele collaboration teken: de wereldberoemde x. Maar even serieus, Joseph Kosinski, die de nieuwe Tron heeft geregisseerd, had een interview met MTV over de film en hierin legt hij onder andere uit waarom hij heeft gekozen voor een soundtrack van Daft Punk. Check het nummer ook onder de cut.

Over het gebruik van 3D in de film

Our approach is not like "Avatar," which I think is 3-D from the first shot to the last. Ours is sort of a "Wizard of Oz" approach. Ninety-eight percent of the 3-D is in the world of "Tron." The 3-D really starts once we get into the Tron world.

Over de nogal op volwassenen gerichte toon van de film

I don't know if I would say adult. There's nothing in the film that would keep kids from watching it. I think the aesthetic of the film is largely a reflection of my aesthetic and what I'm interested in. When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see. For me, it was taking what I loved about the first film, which was the design elements that Syd Mead and Moebius [a.k.a. Jean Giraud] did, which I feel is timeless, and extrapolate it forward 28 years. We're saying in the world of the computer, it's been thousands of years and it has evolved.

Over Daft Punk voor de soundtrack

I'm a huge electronic-music fan. This is a film where there was a lot of interest from different electronic bands that I follow to work on the film. I felt it was important, just as the first film was so forward-thinking visually and Wendy Carlos' music was so innovative, I felt we had to do the same thing here. So rather than going with a traditional film composer, I wanted to try something fresh and different. I set up a meeting with Daft Punk. We met for pancakes at the 101 Coffee Shop in L.A. one morning. These guys take "Tron" very seriously. Obviously, "Tron" was a huge influence on them. It was almost like they were interviewing me to make sure that I was going to hold up to the "Tron" legacy. But the more we talked, we realized that creatively, we were totally synced up. I've been working on it with them for over a year and a half. I don't know of a movie where you're working on the soundtrack months before you start filming. The level of integration between the music and the film is incredibly strong.

UPDATE: dit is geen echt nummer van Daft Punk, maar het is nog steeds en dope nummer.