Since the record breaking opening of The Dark Knight last July, there has been an invisible line drawn in the sand that separates the darker comic book movies from the lighter fare. For the past ten years studios have been shooting out comic based movies for the sole purpose of tapping into their lucrative fanboy audience. Films such as Spiderman, Fantastic Four, and X-Men all spawned sequels and big payday’s, but the films quality suffered as the franchises progressed.In the case of TDK, Christopher Nolan’s Batman series continued to get better by sticking close to it’s source material, and concentrating more on story than gimmicks.

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It’s here! The first casting announcement for the sequel to 1982′s Tron. According to THR, Olivia Wilde (House, The O.C.), and Beau Garrett (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Made of Honor) have both signed on to co-star in Tron 2.0, or TRZ, or whatever the hell you crazy kids are calling it these days.

More on their characters after the jump.

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