Sheen Gets Mean in “Tron Legacy”

Seeming Hobbit shoo-in Michael Sheen will instead be a non-human baddie in “Tron Legacy.”

ComingSoon relays Michael Sheen’s own announcement (via Twitter) that he has joined the cast of “Tron Legacy.” Sheen says that he will play a villain that “is not a person at all.” This is nice, but perhaps not very surprising. Now if he said that he was playing someone who was not a person in a contemporary romantic comedy, that might raise a few eyebrows. But a non-person in “Tron Legacy”? To be honest, it would be more of an upset if he said he was playing a person. Anyway, person, rock, robot, CGI figment of someone’s imagination–it doesn’t matter, Sheen will be great.

“Tron Legacy” (we’re still testing out that new name here) is of course a sequel to the way-ahead-of-its-time 1982 video game movie “Tron.” In the sequel:

“Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), looks into 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. Along with Kevin’s loyal confidant (Olivia Wilde), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous.”

The 3D film is on schedule for a November or December 2010 release.