"You're getting brutal, Sark. Brutal and needlessly sadistic."
"Thank you, Master Control."
-- The Master Control Program and Sark, Tron
It is happening again...My co-host with the most Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Ghostwood: The Twin Peaks Podcast! This time, we continue our retrospective of Twin Peaks Actors in Other Films by discussing Tron, the 1982 science fiction action-adventure film directed by Steven Lisberger, starring David Warner as Edward Dillinger/Sark/MCP, Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn/Clu, Bruce Boxleitner as Alan Bradley/Tron, and Cindy Morgan as Lora Baines/Yori!
LET'S ROCK!
In this episode, Xan and I discuss things like the cabinet version of the Tron videogame, Steven Lisberger's Animalympics, Xan and I both being Tron geeks, The Shining not having a soundtrack album, Tron composer Wendy Carlos being an expert at the Moog synthesizer, Xan being a Wendy Carlos fan, David Warner having fought and been the Devil, David Warner appearing on Star Trek and Doctor Who, Xan going to see Tron: Legacy with a fever because she promised Bruce Boxleitner, Bruce Boxleitner as Captain John Sheridan on Babylon 5, Jeff Bridges' Starman never being broadcast on television, the fabulous theme to It's Garry Shandling's Show, Barnard Hughes as Merlin on the Mr. Merlin TV show, Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari on Babylon 5, Dan Shor as Billy the Kid in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Tron getting screwed over by the Academy because they thought using computers was "cheating", Disney thinking Tron was a bomb despite Generation X loving it, Tron being geared towards boys, Kevin Flynn entering The Grid through a reverse 3D printer, Kevin Flynn playing Jai alai on The Grid, why you need to see Tron on the big screen if you have the chance, the MCP's catchphrase "End of line", Kevin Flynn replacing Ed Dillinger as the CEO of ENCOM, celebrating Tron's 40th anniversary, making the ENCOM helicopter look like it was a CGI helicopter, David Cross pointing out that people can be violent without playing videogames, my parents making me going to my bedroom to play my Atari 2600, girls being pressured not to play with toys after the age of 12, Tron: Legacy being more inclusive than Tron, Lora Baines' male coworkers being very accepting of her skills and talents in 1982, Xan hearing our Drunk Cinema theme song on Sirius XM, David Dastmalchian as the Polka-Dot Man in The Suicide Squad, and more!
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Be sure to come back in two weeks, as Xan and I continue our retrospective of Twin Peaks Actors in Other Films by discussing The Suicide Squad, the 2021 supervillain film directed by James Gunn, starring David Dastmalchian as the Polka-Dot Man, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Idris Elba as Bloodsport, and John Cena as Peacemaker!
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