‘Tron: Ares' Trailer: Jared Leto Is an AI Villain in Latest Installment of the Iconic Jeff Bridges Franchise
Joachim Rønning ('The Young Woman and the Sea') directs the third franchise film, which is written by Jesse Wigutow and Jack Thorne ('Adolescence'). Original lead Jeff Bridges returns, with Evan Peters, Jodie Turner-Smith, Greta Lee, Arturo Castro, Hasan Minhaj, Cameron Monaghan, and Gillian Anderson co-starring. The official synopsis reads: ''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.'
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The sci-fi franchise began in 1982 with Bridges playing a video game programmer who becomes trapped in the digital world. The sequel 'Tron: Legacy' was released in 2010 with Garret Hedlund playing Bridges' onscreen son; Joseph Kosinski directed.
For the third film, director Rønning told Empire that he views the process of making 'Tron: Ares' as the 'the Holy Grail of computer graphics,' especially with the famed Grid becoming even more paramount to the plot. Rønning added that 'Tron: Ares' will 'elevate' the world and take it 'to the next level,' especially due to the motion-controlled camera movements on The Grid. Rønning said he worked to have the camera shots designed as though the lens was being operated by machine. 'The concept was that a program is filming a program,' the 'Young Woman and the Sea' and 'Maleficent: Mistress of Evil' director said. 'So it's shot by a robot.'
Original 'Tron' creator Steven Lisberger added to Empire that the franchise is all about pushing tech to the next level. 'Something comes out, and it's too avant-garde at the time. And then the real world catches up with it,' Lisberger said. '[The Grid in 'Tron'] has become a symbol of our riding this technology that is going faster than we ever imagined. We've integrated into it, and the speed of it is mind-boggling. And in 'Ares,' it's a metaphor for the fact that this technology is moving through every part of our reality.'
'Tron: Ares' has a score by Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. The Grammy-winning band dropped the soundtrack album's first single, 'As Alive As You Need Me To Be,' with the trailer. This is the first official music from the band in five years. (They recently have scored Luca Guadagnino's 'Challengers,' 'Queer,' and 'After The Hunt'). The 'Tron: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)' will be released on September 19 via Interscope Records.
'Tron: Ares' is produced by Leto, Sean Bailey, Jeffrey Silver, Justin Springer, Emma Ludbrook, and Steven Lisberger, with Russell Allen serving as executive producer.
Disney will release 'Tron: Ares' in theaters October 10. Check out the trailer below.
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