October 10, 2025 • 11 mins
Bo, Beth and Steve welcome CBR's Deputy Editor as they discuss the newest TRON movie and a movie with local ties, starring Channing Tatum.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning Ie you gurs to trop fine, Good morning
Echo Basse.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
This is rope too.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I found them repeat, I.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Found them from US Talk eleven ten and ninety nine
three double e bet. I love it when a plan
comes together.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
This is good Morning Beat with Bo Thompson and Beth Troutlin.
I was listening to the Magic Voice, just coming out
of this strange modern invention. Yeah, we're talking about Tron, right,
(00:38):
I mean this is Tron nineteen eighty two Tron.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Okay, okay, okay, go ahead, to go ahead, Bernie Playbo.
We came here.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
From the digital world.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Looking for something, something you've discovered, and some of us
will stop at nothing. Your world is running out of time.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Hang on.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Tron Aris srated PG thirteen featuring original music by nine
Inch Nails film for Imaxle in theaters October tenth. Okay
eight O eight on WBT, bow and Beth and Sir
Steven of Anthony, biggest Tron fan We've ever met. Bernie
Bowles featured in this ensemble as well, and now to
(01:33):
the WBT Hotline from CBR. Always great to have him
on a Friday, The one and Only Sorry I talked
over the nine inch nails. It is Sean O'Connell. What's
going on, man, Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Hello boys, good to be on the grid.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yes, always good to have you on the grid. Now,
this is an interesting day of movie openings because you
get one movie that one of our staff here has
been looking forward to for nineteen years, and then and
then the other one is has been described as the
most most authentically Charlotte movie ever made.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
We'll get No, that's very accurate. Okay, very very accurate.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Well hold your thought on that one for a second.
Let's start with the Tron Ares, which hits theaters today
and Steve. Steve's going to be part of this too,
because he knows way more about Tron than me, and
obviously Sean does. But how many Tron movies is this?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Now?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Well?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
This will be the third. This is the third, and
it still blows my mind, the child of the eighties
that you are, that you have never seen the original,
let alone Tron Legacy from fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I have not.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Sean O'Connell, you are Are you a Tron guy? I
know you've seen it, but are you were you a
huge fan of the other two?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
No, not really.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
No, And in fact, I saw Tron much later in life.
I kind of watched the first one to prep for Legacy,
which is the second one that came out, And when
I watched it, I was like, really, this, this is
what it is.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
You know, Sean, we got along so well until about
thirty five seconds ago.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Well, like, I'm sure that the effects in nineteen eighty two,
I want to say this were impressive, but like it's
real cheesy. It looks really cheesy, kind of goofy. But
then Legacy was great, Like Legacy took the idea.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
And applied you know, modern technology and allowed him to
sort of tell this story that's set within a computer world.
And I was like, oh, yeah, this is way more.
I understand why people are super into this.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
And so you're speaking of are you speaking of the
cheesy one? Is the original or the one that comes
out today?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah? No, the original?
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Okay, so let's get to the one. Let's fast forward
to the one that comes out today. This is a
PG thirteen rated. This is a Disney again at the
helm for Tron ares. Now, Sean, you have seen this,
and Steve is waiting because you didn't see it last night,
did you Steve. No, no, So Steve has not seen
this yet, so now we're all waiting to see what
you thought of the new one.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
It's a ton of fun and I think that Steve
is gonna dig it. But I will say this as
a caveat, I don't think that it was developed like
as a natural Tron sequel. I think that they that
Disney had a screenplay for an idea about, hey, what
(04:22):
if we figured out how to bring AI out of
the computer and into our world, And then someone along
the lines was like, hey, you know, this could also
be a Tron sequel because there's Tron elements in the movie.
And Steve, maybe this will bother you if you're a
big time fan that you might be like, oh, they
didn't weave this in enough. But literally, if you took
(04:43):
the Tron elements out of this movie, you would have
the exact same movie kind of thing. So I enjoyed
it for what it was, and the and the visual
effects look fantastic, and the story at the heart of
what's going on, which is there's an evil corporation. They
want to bring the AI elements, you know, out of
the computer and into our world so that we can
(05:03):
create soldiers and armies that never get tired, that don't
have to be fed, you know, that can fight relentlessly.
But you know they also then be like, yeah, but
they're part of the grid too, and connect it to
the Tron universe. Those are the parts that I thought
felt a little bit forced, but I still thought I
was like, oh, this is still really entertaining. And the score.
So the score for Tron Legacy, which was the second one,
(05:27):
was done by dash Punk and got a lot of
attention because people really dug the techno aspect of it
this time. Now they get nine inch nails and the
score is unbelievable, Like, it adds so much to the
action because it is this driving sort of techno beat,
and so when you're sitting in a theater and that's
pumping out of the speakers, it adds to the atmosphere
of it. I would absolutely recommend it, But if you're
(05:48):
a huge Tron heads like Steve, I'm gonna be really
curious if you like it just because you're happy to
see Tron again, or if you're kind of bummed, like, ah,
they really shoehorn Tron onto the story that it doesn't
really fit to well.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
It's interesting that you say that, Sean, because this was
kind of the same general thing that I had heard
or read, I should say from from some of the
other reviews were basically that it looks amazing, it sounds incredible,
and it's kind of your quote unquote typical Disney film
of like you kind of know what the story is going,
(06:20):
like where what the story beats will be. You know,
it's Disney. It's kind of like a textbook, a cookie
cutter Disney in that, you know, good guys always win
type of scenario, but that if you are, if you
are a Tron guy as I am, that there will
be those moments where you go, wait, shouldn't they be
talking about more about you know, Flynn or Dillinger, the
(06:43):
MCP or the you know, what have you? And like
you said, it was kind of one of those like
if it wasn't labeled as Tron Aries, you could have
just called the movie Aries and it would have been
its own thing.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And you'll see specifically, and what I'll mention is, you know,
there's an element that involved Jeff Bridges, who of course
was you know, in the original Tron. He doesn't play
the character Tron. He plays someone different. He does show
up in this film, that's not a secret. Everyone knows
that he's in it. When you get to that part
of the movie, you'll realize, like, oh, they filmed this
(07:17):
because Jeff Bridges agreed to do a day or two
on set.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
And we just inserted it into a film.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
And if he didn't agree to do it, we still
had a movie. We were okay. In fact, it's my
theory that he probably shot it against a green screen
in his in his Malibu mansion someplace. And even though
he's in a scene with Jared Leto, I'm convinced the
two have never met before.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Oh that's funny. Well, let's let's switch gears to the
most Charlotte movie ever. Also, I'm like a secret fan
of Channing Tatum, like ever since twenty one Jump Street.
I just think he's hilarious. Roof Man debuted last weekend, right,
and it is a true story of Jeffrey Manchester who
hit out in a toys or run on Independence Boulevard.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, I mean so, Beth, I don't really even remember
this story when it was a thing, which is funny
because I've heard plenty of people tell me about it.
And but it does make for a really fun interesting movie.
You know, he he gets arrested for a different reason.
He figures out how to break out of the prison,
(08:22):
and while he's on the run but still wanting to
connect with his wife and his child who he has
left behind, who he's a bit estranged from, he does
figure out a way to hide out in this Toys
r Us And then they take the story into some
Hollywood you know areas where he you know, starts to
fall in love with the character played by Keirson Dunst.
(08:43):
And but all of that is still true to the story,
Like the woman who Kirson Dunst plays is an actual
Charlotte woman who has told this story, so it exists.
But here's what I love about it. So they filmed
in Charlotte. They used the Toys r Us that's over
in Pineville, the one that's near Carolina Plays. They use
a bunch of locations that are over off like Pinebeum
(09:03):
Matthews Road, and they have a date at Freedom Park.
But it's not like you know, previous movies that have
shot in Charlotte, whether it be Shallow Howe or Talladega Knights,
where it's you know, we are a.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Fill in for some locust city.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
They talk about Charlotte, and they talk about Charlotte things,
and they talk about you know, churches that are here
in the areas and restaurants that are in the areas,
and and Charlotte is almost a character in the movie,
which I loved.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I think that that's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
So yeah, it was really cool. I got to see
this up at the New Carolina Theater, the one that
they just renovated up in the city, and it was
the opening night for the Charlotte Film Festival. And the
director at the time, his name is Derek c and France.
He talked about how he really pushed Paramount Pictures to
make this the debut, you know, the opening night of
the Charlotte Film Festival, because he used so much local
(09:52):
crew here and shot in the area and lived here
while he was researching it and just really fell in
love with the area. So I thought that was super cool.
And I've been hearing that it's a bit of a
boon to the area that more directors are now looking
at Charlotte, at Wilmington, at ashvillam and maybe starting to
bring some filmmaking opportunities back here. So we'll see maybe
(10:15):
Rufeman kicks off something that we can you know, build
on for the coming years.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Oh that thrills me that it might because in North Carolina,
and people don't know this. North Carolina used to be
the third largest hub for filmmaking, and tax credits kind
of changed that and moved things to Georgia and to Louisiana.
But if it brings filmmaking back here, that's thrilling. And
I mis spoke. They moved the premiere data. It actually
does premiere today. It didn't premiere last week. It premieres
(10:39):
in theaters today.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Well, it's worth going out to see, and it's worth
going out to support a Charlotte production. But it's also
just entertaining. It's a fun kind of It's got some
action elements, it's got some comedy elements. It's got a
little bit of a romantic comedy element to it. I
here's some Dune.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
She isn't you know?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
She didn't do a ton for me as an actress.
I think she's a little bit boring. But Channing Tait
him is charismatic to the hill.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Oh I just love him.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, he's great in this movie, really fantastic in this
and so yeah, I can't recommend it enough.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Does Rufman have any nine inch Nails songs in it?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
It doesn't unless you bring your Walkman with you and
just listen to it while you're listening to the movie.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
That's what Steve does anyway, walks around everywhere with his Walkman.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
And yes, my Tron soundtrack on vinyl is very portable.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Walkman. Let me explain what a walkman is to the
young kids who are listening CBR.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
He's the deputy editor and he joins us. You know,
whenever we got big movies opening up on Fridays, and
today today qualifies and got some more coming up in
the coming week. So we'll talk to you again soon, hopefully.
Sean O'Connell, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Have a great weekend.
Good morning Ie you gurs to trop fine, Good morning
Echo Basse.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
This is rope too.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I found them repeat, I.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Found them from US Talk eleven ten and ninety nine
three double e bet. I love it when a plan
comes together.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
This is good Morning Beat with Bo Thompson and Beth Troutlin.
I was listening to the Magic Voice, just coming out
of this strange modern invention. Yeah, we're talking about Tron, right,
(00:38):
I mean this is Tron nineteen eighty two Tron.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Okay, okay, okay, go ahead, to go ahead, Bernie Playbo.
We came here.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
From the digital world.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Looking for something, something you've discovered, and some of us
will stop at nothing. Your world is running out of time.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Hang on.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Tron Aris srated PG thirteen featuring original music by nine
Inch Nails film for Imaxle in theaters October tenth. Okay
eight O eight on WBT, bow and Beth and Sir
Steven of Anthony, biggest Tron fan We've ever met. Bernie
Bowles featured in this ensemble as well, and now to
(01:33):
the WBT Hotline from CBR. Always great to have him
on a Friday, The one and Only Sorry I talked
over the nine inch nails. It is Sean O'Connell. What's
going on, man, Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Hello boys, good to be on the grid.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yes, always good to have you on the grid. Now,
this is an interesting day of movie openings because you
get one movie that one of our staff here has
been looking forward to for nineteen years, and then and
then the other one is has been described as the
most most authentically Charlotte movie ever made.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
We'll get No, that's very accurate. Okay, very very accurate.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Well hold your thought on that one for a second.
Let's start with the Tron Ares, which hits theaters today
and Steve. Steve's going to be part of this too,
because he knows way more about Tron than me, and
obviously Sean does. But how many Tron movies is this?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Now?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Well?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
This will be the third. This is the third, and
it still blows my mind, the child of the eighties
that you are, that you have never seen the original,
let alone Tron Legacy from fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I have not.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Sean O'Connell, you are Are you a Tron guy? I
know you've seen it, but are you were you a
huge fan of the other two?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
No, not really.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
No, And in fact, I saw Tron much later in life.
I kind of watched the first one to prep for Legacy,
which is the second one that came out, And when
I watched it, I was like, really, this, this is
what it is.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
You know, Sean, we got along so well until about
thirty five seconds ago.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Well, like, I'm sure that the effects in nineteen eighty two,
I want to say this were impressive, but like it's
real cheesy. It looks really cheesy, kind of goofy. But
then Legacy was great, Like Legacy took the idea.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
And applied you know, modern technology and allowed him to
sort of tell this story that's set within a computer world.
And I was like, oh, yeah, this is way more.
I understand why people are super into this.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
And so you're speaking of are you speaking of the
cheesy one? Is the original or the one that comes
out today?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah? No, the original?
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Okay, so let's get to the one. Let's fast forward
to the one that comes out today. This is a
PG thirteen rated. This is a Disney again at the
helm for Tron ares. Now, Sean, you have seen this,
and Steve is waiting because you didn't see it last night,
did you Steve. No, no, So Steve has not seen
this yet, so now we're all waiting to see what
you thought of the new one.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
It's a ton of fun and I think that Steve
is gonna dig it. But I will say this as
a caveat, I don't think that it was developed like
as a natural Tron sequel. I think that they that
Disney had a screenplay for an idea about, hey, what
(04:22):
if we figured out how to bring AI out of
the computer and into our world, And then someone along
the lines was like, hey, you know, this could also
be a Tron sequel because there's Tron elements in the movie.
And Steve, maybe this will bother you if you're a
big time fan that you might be like, oh, they
didn't weave this in enough. But literally, if you took
(04:43):
the Tron elements out of this movie, you would have
the exact same movie kind of thing. So I enjoyed
it for what it was, and the and the visual
effects look fantastic, and the story at the heart of
what's going on, which is there's an evil corporation. They
want to bring the AI elements, you know, out of
the computer and into our world so that we can
(05:03):
create soldiers and armies that never get tired, that don't
have to be fed, you know, that can fight relentlessly.
But you know they also then be like, yeah, but
they're part of the grid too, and connect it to
the Tron universe. Those are the parts that I thought
felt a little bit forced, but I still thought I
was like, oh, this is still really entertaining. And the score.
So the score for Tron Legacy, which was the second one,
(05:27):
was done by dash Punk and got a lot of
attention because people really dug the techno aspect of it
this time. Now they get nine inch nails and the
score is unbelievable, Like, it adds so much to the
action because it is this driving sort of techno beat,
and so when you're sitting in a theater and that's
pumping out of the speakers, it adds to the atmosphere
of it. I would absolutely recommend it, But if you're
(05:48):
a huge Tron heads like Steve, I'm gonna be really
curious if you like it just because you're happy to
see Tron again, or if you're kind of bummed, like, ah,
they really shoehorn Tron onto the story that it doesn't
really fit to well.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
It's interesting that you say that, Sean, because this was
kind of the same general thing that I had heard
or read, I should say from from some of the
other reviews were basically that it looks amazing, it sounds incredible,
and it's kind of your quote unquote typical Disney film
of like you kind of know what the story is going,
(06:20):
like where what the story beats will be. You know,
it's Disney. It's kind of like a textbook, a cookie
cutter Disney in that, you know, good guys always win
type of scenario, but that if you are, if you
are a Tron guy as I am, that there will
be those moments where you go, wait, shouldn't they be
talking about more about you know, Flynn or Dillinger, the
(06:43):
MCP or the you know, what have you? And like
you said, it was kind of one of those like
if it wasn't labeled as Tron Aries, you could have
just called the movie Aries and it would have been
its own thing.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And you'll see specifically, and what I'll mention is, you know,
there's an element that involved Jeff Bridges, who of course
was you know, in the original Tron. He doesn't play
the character Tron. He plays someone different. He does show
up in this film, that's not a secret. Everyone knows
that he's in it. When you get to that part
of the movie, you'll realize, like, oh, they filmed this
(07:17):
because Jeff Bridges agreed to do a day or two
on set.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
And we just inserted it into a film.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
And if he didn't agree to do it, we still
had a movie. We were okay. In fact, it's my
theory that he probably shot it against a green screen
in his in his Malibu mansion someplace. And even though
he's in a scene with Jared Leto, I'm convinced the
two have never met before.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Oh that's funny. Well, let's let's switch gears to the
most Charlotte movie ever. Also, I'm like a secret fan
of Channing Tatum, like ever since twenty one Jump Street.
I just think he's hilarious. Roof Man debuted last weekend, right,
and it is a true story of Jeffrey Manchester who
hit out in a toys or run on Independence Boulevard.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, I mean so, Beth, I don't really even remember
this story when it was a thing, which is funny
because I've heard plenty of people tell me about it.
And but it does make for a really fun interesting movie.
You know, he he gets arrested for a different reason.
He figures out how to break out of the prison,
(08:22):
and while he's on the run but still wanting to
connect with his wife and his child who he has
left behind, who he's a bit estranged from, he does
figure out a way to hide out in this Toys
r Us And then they take the story into some
Hollywood you know areas where he you know, starts to
fall in love with the character played by Keirson Dunst.
(08:43):
And but all of that is still true to the story,
Like the woman who Kirson Dunst plays is an actual
Charlotte woman who has told this story, so it exists.
But here's what I love about it. So they filmed
in Charlotte. They used the Toys r Us that's over
in Pineville, the one that's near Carolina Plays. They use
a bunch of locations that are over off like Pinebeum
(09:03):
Matthews Road, and they have a date at Freedom Park.
But it's not like you know, previous movies that have
shot in Charlotte, whether it be Shallow Howe or Talladega Knights,
where it's you know, we are a.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Fill in for some locust city.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
They talk about Charlotte, and they talk about Charlotte things,
and they talk about you know, churches that are here
in the areas and restaurants that are in the areas,
and and Charlotte is almost a character in the movie,
which I loved.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I think that that's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
So yeah, it was really cool. I got to see
this up at the New Carolina Theater, the one that
they just renovated up in the city, and it was
the opening night for the Charlotte Film Festival. And the
director at the time, his name is Derek c and France.
He talked about how he really pushed Paramount Pictures to
make this the debut, you know, the opening night of
the Charlotte Film Festival, because he used so much local
(09:52):
crew here and shot in the area and lived here
while he was researching it and just really fell in
love with the area. So I thought that was super cool.
And I've been hearing that it's a bit of a
boon to the area that more directors are now looking
at Charlotte, at Wilmington, at ashvillam and maybe starting to
bring some filmmaking opportunities back here. So we'll see maybe
(10:15):
Rufeman kicks off something that we can you know, build
on for the coming years.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Oh that thrills me that it might because in North Carolina,
and people don't know this. North Carolina used to be
the third largest hub for filmmaking, and tax credits kind
of changed that and moved things to Georgia and to Louisiana.
But if it brings filmmaking back here, that's thrilling. And
I mis spoke. They moved the premiere data. It actually
does premiere today. It didn't premiere last week. It premieres
(10:39):
in theaters today.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Well, it's worth going out to see, and it's worth
going out to support a Charlotte production. But it's also
just entertaining. It's a fun kind of It's got some
action elements, it's got some comedy elements. It's got a
little bit of a romantic comedy element to it. I
here's some Dune.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
She isn't you know?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
She didn't do a ton for me as an actress.
I think she's a little bit boring. But Channing Tait
him is charismatic to the hill.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Oh I just love him.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, he's great in this movie, really fantastic in this
and so yeah, I can't recommend it enough.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Does Rufman have any nine inch Nails songs in it?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
It doesn't unless you bring your Walkman with you and
just listen to it while you're listening to the movie.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
That's what Steve does anyway, walks around everywhere with his Walkman.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
And yes, my Tron soundtrack on vinyl is very portable.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Walkman. Let me explain what a walkman is to the
young kids who are listening CBR.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
He's the deputy editor and he joins us. You know,
whenever we got big movies opening up on Fridays, and
today today qualifies and got some more coming up in
the coming week. So we'll talk to you again soon, hopefully.
Sean O'Connell, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Have a great weekend.
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