A new film in the saga Tron arrived. The filming of Tron: Aresor Tr3nbegan in January 2024. Date, story, casting: this is what you need to remember and what we know today about this feature film.
The Tron saga is expanding: after a first film in 1982, then a sequel in 2010 (Tron: Legacy), a third feature film is now on track. Tron Aresor Tr3nwill immerse spectators back into cyberspace, with artificial intelligence at the heart of the concerns. Joachim Rønning is at the helm. The casting is completely new.
What does the story tell of Tron ?
In the movie Tronwe follow the adventures of a computer programmer, Kevin Flynn (played by Jeff Bridges), facing the president of the company Encom, in which he is employed. Indeed, the games that Kevin Flynn designs are taken over by the CEO, Ed Dillinger (played by David Warner), who takes credit for them before firing the real developer.
Eager to restore the truth, Kevin Flynn seeks to enter the Encom company network. But in this attempt, which will lead him to enter the company, he finds himself transported involuntarily into cyberspace: he momentarily leaves his fleshly envelope, made of atoms, for a digital representation, composed of bits.
Tron: Legacy is the sequel to the first film, which this time centers on Flynn’s son, Sam (played by Garrett Hedlund). The principle remains the same. Twenty years later, Sam finds himself immersed in cyberspace and finds his father (still Jeff Bridges), stuck there. The two will then have to team up to solve the problem.
In this second film, the problem lies in a falling out between Flynn and his digital double CLU (“Codified Likeness Utility”). Their vision, in fact, diverges on how to perfect the digital system in which they operate. But the arrival of Sam will offer an opportunity for Flynn to make up for his mistakes and the excesses of CLU.
Tron : Ares is it a direct sequel to Tron: Legacy ?
The status of Tron : Ares compared to the previous two films turned out to be unclear. It was sometimes presented as a sequel, sometimes as a reboot. The latest developments list it more as a sequel, but there are no characters from the main cast of Tron: Legacy formalized as of January 2024.
This uncertainty is reflected among our colleagues. Collider talks about it as a sequel in its news of January 19. Inverseon the other hand, is more cautious. “ This doesn’t feel like a direct sequel », writes the site, pointing out a distribution that is completely new for the moment. But perhaps there will be surprises.
When did the filming of Tr3n ?
Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Rønning announced the start of filming on January 19, 2024. on his Twitter account. Tron : Ares is also presented with stylized writing Tr3n. Previously, the director had shared other milestones, without revealing much. It is at the beginning of 2023 that its participation came to fruition.
Production was planned to begin earlier, in 2023, but the schedule was delayed due to the major social unrest that hit Hollywood last summer. Audiovisual professionals, particularly screenwriters, actors and actresses, have spoken out against the effects of a sector in full upheaval with AI and streaming.
When does the sequel come out? Tron ?
Tr3n release date was fixed to October 10, 2025 in the United States. This schedule is subject to change. Filming officially wrapped on May 1, 2024, according to an Instagram post by Joachim Rønning. Now, the long post-production phase begins, with editing, special effects and possible reshoots.
Where to watch the film on streaming sites?
Tron : Ares will arrive on the Disney+ SVOD platform, because the license rights are owned by the entertainment giant. In France, Tron 3 will take time to release on streaming after the theatrical release, due to media timelines. Unless it is reformed by then, a minimum period of six months must be observed.
What will we talk about Tron 3 ?
The official synopsis of Tron Ares, revealed in February 2024, evokes a “ highly sophisticated program, Ares, which is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humanity’s first encounter with beings with artificial intelligence ».
Previously, Joachim Rønning suggested that the film would play on the boundary between AI and humans. If the notion of artificial intelligence is omnipresent in the news today, particularly since the emergence of ChatGPT, this concept already largely permeated the storyline of the two other films, which feature very advanced systems.
Which actors and actresses are in the game?
Jared Leto was attached to the project very early on, as he is also producing the film. Evan Peters (X-Men, Dahmer), Greta Lee (Russian Doll), Jodie Turner-Smith (White Noise, The Acolyte), Cameron Monaghan (Shattered, Jedi Fallen Order, Jedi Survivor), Sarah Desjardins (Impulse, The Night Agent) et Gillian Anderson (X-Files, Sex Education) have been made official.
The distribution of roles is as follows:
- Jared Leto : Ares
- Jeff Bridges : Kevin Flynn
- Evan Peters : Julian Dillinger
- Greta Lee : Eve Kim
Is Jeff Bridges in Tron Ares ?
We also note the presence of Jeff Bridgeswho will return to his character of Kevin Flynn that he played in the first two films. The rest of the cast of the time (like Bruce Boxleitner for Tron or even Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde for Tron: Legacy) are not in the game — except in the event of a twist.
For what Tron has marked SF and pop culture to this extent
As we explained in an article in 2016, this film, without directly evoking the Internet, develops a completely new visual language supposed to represent the interior of a computer system with luminous printed circuits which resemble highways and programs obliged to fight in deadly video games.
This representation, which appears as a UFO in the world of science fiction (Tron dates from 1982, well before the advent of the general public Internet, while its sequel was released in 2010), is summarized and symbolized in the incipit of Tron: Legacynarrated by Jeff Bridges, who plays Kevin Flynn:
The Grid.
A digital frontier.
I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer.
What did they look like ?
Ships ? Motorcycles ?
Were the circuits like freeways ?
I kept dreaming of a world I thought I’d never see
And then, one day
I got in
Directed by Steven Lisberger, Tron invents without knowing it, and before its time, the imagery of cyberspacea futuristic concept of the Internet that William Gibson would define in his cyberpunk masterpiece Neuromancien as ” a graphical representation of data extracted from the memories of all computers in the human system ».
Source: www.numerama.com
