Daft Punk's 'TRON: Legacy' Score Gets a Music Video

This just in: Daft Punk's score for TRON: Legacy is AMAZING!  I bought the score online last night from Amazon (it's currently on sale for $3.99) and haven't stopped listening to it since.  I fully expect Daft Punk's work here to be nominated for an Oscar in February, and in a year full of top notch scores (The Social Network, Inception, Let Me In) that's really saying something.

Today, MTV premiered the first music video from the score for the track "Derezzed."  The video isn't as noteworthy as the score itself as the imagery is a little weak, but it's still definitely worth a watch as it's kind of a cool mash-up between the original TRON and the upcoming Legacy.  Check out the video after the jump.

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From Walt Disney Pictures comes “TRON: Legacy,” a high-tech adventure set in a digital world that is unlike anything ever captured on the big screen . Directed by Joseph Kosinski, “TRON: Legacy” stars Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Bruce Boxleitner, James Frain, Beau Garrett and Michael Sheen and is produced by Sean Bailey, Jeffrey Silver and Steven Lisberger, with Donald Kushner serving as executive producer, and Justin Springer and Steve Gaub co-producing . The “TRON: Legacy” screenplay was written by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz; story by Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz and Brian Klugman & Lee Sternthal; based on characters created by Steven Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird.

Presented in Disney Digital 3DTM, Real D 3D and IMAX® 3D and scored by Grammy® Award- winning electronic music duo Daft Punk, “TRON: Legacy” features cutting-edge, state-of-the- art technology, effects and set design that bring to life an epic adventure coursing across a digital grid that is as fascinating and wondrous as it is beyond imagination.

At the epicenter of the adventure is a father-son story that resonates as much on the Grid as it does in the real world: Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), a rebellious 27-year-old, is haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his father, Kevin Flynn (Oscar® and Golden Globe® winner Jeff Bridges), a man once known as the world’s leading tech visionary.

When Sam investigates a strange signal sent from the old Flynn’s Arcade—a signal that could only come from his father—he finds himself pulled into a digital grid where Kevin has been trapped for 20 years . With the help of the fearless warrior Quorra (Olivia Wilde), father and son embark on a life-or-death journey across a visually stunning digital landscape created by Kevin himself that has become far more advanced, with never-before-imagined vehicles, weapons, landscapes and a ruthless villain who will stop at nothing to prevent their escape.

Comments

[Will]

I have been, I have to say, more excited about the announcement that Daft Punk would bescoring Tron than I have been about Tron itself. The 22 minutes that were posted on MySpace last week are pretty stinkin' awesome. This Daft Punk experiment could have been a trainwreck, but from what I've heard so far, it might be the masterstroke on an already inspiring painting.

[googergieger]

Let Me In and Social Network? Have you only seen like five movies or something? I mean ever. Cause Let Me In's score was beyond phoned in, distracting, and generic. Social Network's score was forgettable.

[Mike McLaughlin]

Let Me In = Michael Giacchino. Social Network = Trent Reznor. Two guys' work that would never be phoned in or considered forgettable.