The Tron 2 trailer is here(well it was, until Disney went berserk and pulled it off every decent site. You can have the 3rd generation Russian bootleg!!)and Jeff Bridges has bought his beard back out of retirement for the mother of all virtual reality remakes. Here’s the punchline: The actual movie won’t be out for at least another 2.5 years

The trailer was revealed to the geeks at San Diego’s Comic-Convention who naturally trickled in their pants and did more whooping and cheering than any advert about a film that’s 3 years away deserves. The lucky nerds at ComCon also saw a director’s cut trailer for Watchmen (as in director’s cut- of an ad- for a film!!)

But here’s the icing on the geekpie: there’s also a ‘Robocop Reboot’ to be directed by Darren Aronofsky (Requiem For A Dream) on it’s way.

Hollywood have obviously come to the realisation that instead of drawing up adventurous new scripts or taking million dollar risks and discarding formula, it’s far easier to stick to remakes and the rehashing of comic books.

Bearing in mind that some amazing celluloid moments have been inspired by works of great literature i.e. War Of The Worlds, American Psycho, virtually anything by Stanley Kubrick, it was only a matter of time before comic books got the once-over. Where does it end? Computer Games (unpleasant memories of Streetfighter spring to mind), Youtube or Youporn clips??

I’m personally looking forward to the Bash Street Kids, Dangermouse, Ghostbusters, Fat Slags & Alan Moore’s lesbian comic book ‘Lost Girls’. Let’s not forget the inevitable live action version of the Smurfs – just what we need: Christina Ricci as Smurfette.

Has Hollywood finally lost the plot(s)?