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Thursday, July 23, Walt Disney Pictures will present unseen footage "Tron 2.0" at San Diego Comic Con 2009, but before the panel takes place, producer Sean Bailey has shared interesting details about the forthcoming sequel. To MTV News, the executive producer of "Gone Baby Gone" insisted that this 1982's film sequel will serve as a "stand-alone sequel", but still stays true to the original.

"You don't have to know the '82 movie to come in and appreciate and enjoy this one," Bailey explained. "That said, we accept what happened in the '82 movie happened in '82. Our movie is set in 2010. We built a mythology that spans the intervening 28 years of, 'Here's what we think happened with Kevin Flynn and with [nefarious software corporation] ENCOM and all those principle characters. Here's what we think happened inside the Tron universe and in the real world."

As for the story, the producer revealed that Flynn's son, Sam, grows up never knowing what happened to his father. He moreover elaborated, "At the beginning of the movie, [Sam is] given a clue or a prompt and starts to investigate, which leads him into the Tron universe. And things have really changed."

Despite noting that there will be some completely new vehicles in the movie, Bailey insisted that lightcyles, tanks and other vehicles will still play important roles. He also added that much of the film happens in the Tron universe although the beginning of the film will take place in the real world.

Adding more, the filmmaker suggested that the movie will bring up a darker tone but will still be a kid-friendly movie. "It's a darker universe than the original, and there's a lot of intensity," he said. "It is a Disney movie. I think most likely we're on the harder edge of PG. [But] our ambition was to make a movie that [adults] were as excited to see as an eight-year-old boy."

"Tron 2.0" follows Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy son of Kevin Flynn, as he investigates his father's disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years. Sam and Kevin then embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous, along with Kevin's loyal confidant.

Starring Jeff Bridges as Kevin and Garrett Hedlund as Sam, "Tron 2.0" will be directed by Joseph Kosinski and supported by Olivia Wilde, Beau Garrett and Bruce Boxleitner. The screenplay is written by Adam Horowitz, Richard Jefferies and Edward Kitsis, while the movie eyes a 2011 release. Footage of it will be shown by Disney during their 11:00 A.M. presentation on Hall H at Comic Con 2009.