It’s time to go back to the grid. Finally. Jared Leto took to his social media on Thursday to reveal our first look at the third Tron film, Tron: Ares, along with a release window of 2025.
The image reveals a red-suited character with a triangle-shaped data disc, both radical departures from the previous two films. Plus, while “Tron: Ares” was long the title people were using for the film, it had not yet become official. Now it is. Here’s the image and teaser…
So, from this image it seems this red character is Ares, Ares is a program, and Jared Leto is playing Ares. But why is this Grid red? What’s up with the new shaped data disc? And how do co-stars like Jodie Turner-Smith, Cameron Monaghan, Greta Lee, Gillian Anderson, and Evan Peters fit in? We don’t yet know.
Tron: Ares is directed by Joachim Rønning, who revealed the start of production a few weeks back. “I’m excited to be part of the Tron franchise and bring this new film to fans around the world,” he said in a press release. “Tron: Ares builds upon the legacy of cutting-edge design, technology, and storytelling. Now more than ever, it feels like the right time to return to the Grid.”
The press release also revealed our first tease of the story: “Tron: Ares follows a highly sophisticated Program, Ares, who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with AI beings.”
Sounds like the promise of Tron: Legacy, of digital beings going into the real world, will finally be paying off. We cannot wait. Now to go put on some Daft Punk.
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