Watch Star Trek: The Motion Picture recut with the music from Tron: Legacy
Star Trek and Tron aren’t two things that typically go together, but filmmaker Patrick Collins recently mashed the pair together in a short film called Star Trek: Legacy. In this 22-minute film, he recut Star Trek: The Motion Picture and set it to Daft Punk’s fantastic score from Tron: Legacy. The resulting film works better than it sounds on paper, and makes for a really cool viewing experience.
Collins noted that he wanted to give the original film a bit more of an updated feel, while maintaining the “pacing and staging of the original”. The two films share some thematic similarities, in that they’re both about people being uploaded into computers. As a result, the introduction of Tron’s music doesn’t feel enormously out of place, and...