TRON

Digitized by Guy G. Gordon Special thanks to Bryan Duarte for the physical copy of the script T R O N Based on the screenplay by Steven Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird Prod. 0222 Fourth Draft Screenplay by Charlie Haas April 6, 1981 BLACKNESS 1THE ELECTRONIC WORLD1 On one side of the screen, computer programming language is being printed, and we HEAR the sound of an electronic keyboard. In the center of the screen, glowing lines inscribe a rough computer simulation of a figure, in response to the programming. Gradually the figure is completed and refined, as we HEAR a resonant voice speaking. VOICE As astonishing advances in computer science are made, artificial intelligence programs are being designed to assist us in every area of life... We see that the completed form is man-like, heroic and muscular, wearing a form of flexible armor. The face is calm, handsome and intelligent. As the voice continues, the form becomes rounded by the computer until it appears three dimensional and begins to rotate. VOICE (CONT.) In a world-wide network of electronics, they travel through miles of circuitry at the speed of light. We created them to calculate and research, to help us design and heal and think. With all that they can do, are they only electrical impulses... or are they a new form of life? The figure is rotated completely around, and as it comes back to face us, a glowing disk appears beside it; again in response to the programming printed out at the side of the screen.