Jared Leto might be the primary star of the upcoming Tron: Areshowever we now understand the face of the franchise will likewise join him. In a brand-new podcast, Jeff Bridges exposed that he’s going back to the 3rd movie in a franchise that he headlined both in 1982’s initial and 2010’s follow up.
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“I’m avoiding this Saturday to play a part in the 3rd installation of the Tron story. I’m thrilled about that,” Bridges stated on the Movie Comment podcastabout 29 minutes into that link.”[Jared] Leto is the star of this 3rd one. I’m truly nervous to deal with him. I’ve appreciated his work.” It’s certainly worth listening to the interview to hear Bridges think back about the white leotard he needed to use in Tronin addition to the movement capture tech he sustained while being “de-aged” for Tron: Legacy (“I didn’t like the method I looked … I seemed like I looked more like Bill Maher than myself. It was type of strange.”) He likewise talks excitedly about Tron: Ares“lovely” useful sets.
In the initial TronBridges played Kevin Flynn, a genius computer system developer that gets drawn into an undiscovered digital world. He repeated the function in the follow up Tron: Legacyboth as the character 30 years later on and a digital variation of him called Clu. Both characters appear to pass away at the end of the movie however it’s not 100% conclusive– and we likewise understand copies are simple to come by in a digital world. io9 connected to Disney for remark or information on the news and has actually not heard back since publication. The studio did, nevertheless, verify the casting news with this tweet:
We do not understand much about Tron: Ares considering that it will not be launched up until October of next year, however what little bit can gloss originates from the main description:”Tron: Ares follows an extremely advanced Program, Ares, who is sent out from the digital world into the real life on a hazardous objective, marking mankind’s very first encounter with AI beings.” Leto is Ares and, as we saw in the very first image, he’s an item of Dillinger, which was the name of the primary enemy for Flynn and his business, Encom.
What this news does do is securely connect a story that is relatively standalone with the history and world of the previous films. And that’s an initial 1984 grid helmet in the image? Is that some type of tease?
We’ll discover on October 10, 2025 when Tron: Ares hits theaters.
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