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Freakier Friday director Nisha Ganatra has ideas for a potential third installment in the iconic and campy body-swap franchise. Legacy sequels are all the rage nowadays, with movies like Liam Neeson's The Naked Gun and Jeff Bridges' Tron: Ares storming into theaters this year. Among them is Freakier Friday, a sequel to Disney's 2003 comedy hit Freaky Fridaystarring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan.

22 years later, Lohan's Anna is a single mother about to walk down the aisle. Unfortunately, her daughter, Harper (Julia Butters), and her fiancé's daughter, Lily (Sophia Hammons), hate each other. What better way to learn to get along than to wake up in someone else's body? This time around, there's a quadruple body swap involved, as Harper and Lily wake up in Anna and Tess' (Curtis) bodies, respectively.

Freakier Friday arrived in cinemas on August 7, and there's been no word on a follow-up just yet. Even so,...

Disney wanted to plant Dwayne Johnson’s face on a stunt double using AI for the upcoming live-action Moana. Here’s why they didn’t.

Here’s a little something to spice up your Tuesday morning. Disney’s live-action Moana is currently in post-production, but it seems the film wasn’t going to be entirely live-action at one point.

The Wall Street Journal (here via Deadline) has uncovered information about Disney’s plans to use AI in the creation of Maui, the demigod who helps Moana on her journey to save her island.

Disney had planned to digitally insert Dwayne Johnson’s face onto a body double for the character. Despite already having Johnson’s permission to do so, the studio eventually backed out for the risk of “bad publicity”.

“Disney would work with AI company Metaphysic to create deepfakes of Johnson’s face that could be layered on top...

Disney briefly explored integrating advanced AI technology into two major upcoming live-action films—Moana and Tron: Ares—only to ultimately scrap both initiatives due to legal, creative, and ethical concerns.

Deepfake Idea for Moana

For the live-action Moana remake, Disney considered using AI to deepfake actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s face onto his cousin Tanoai Reed, who would serve as his body double.

Johnson wanted to reduce the days he needed to appear on set, and had approved the concept, but the complicated technology required extensive negotiations with AI partner Metaphysic. After approximately 18 months, Disney decided not to include any of the AI-generated footage in the final film.

AI Character Plan for Tron: Ares

Disney also reportedly discussed using generative AI to bring the character “Bit” to life in Tron: Ares. Bit would be a possible companion to Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges).

The plan involved feeding character context to an AI script,...

For decades, sci-fi films have been using AI and the rise of technology as a villain, theorizing what could happen if robots could become sentient. However, few films tackling the rise of technology saw it take over creative jobs.

However, that has been happening more often than not. Although films and shows openly using AI have been receiving backlash from the public, more studios are looking into it, even Disney. Per a recent report from The Wall Street Journal, The Walt Disney Company recently considered digitally cloning Dwayne Johnson for the upcoming live-action Moana film.

Following the success of Moana in 2016, the studio didn't know how to continue the Polynesian Disney Princess' story. Initially, there were plans to continue Moana's story as a television series, which was later turned into a feature sequel that grossed over $1 billion at the box office last year. Ahead of the sequel, Disney had...

"Tron: Ares" should be the most hyped movie of 2025. It's the long awaited sequel to the cult classic "Tron: Legacy" and features new music by Nine Inch Nails. But the one thing that seems to suck the air out of the room anytime there's a new "Tron: Ares" trailer is the inclusion of Jared Leto as the titular Ares, a dangerous computer program who enters the real world. A big part of that comes down to the sexual misconduct allegations lobbied against Leto earlier this year, which the actor's team has denied.

However, even before such allegations came to light, Leto had burned a lot of the goodwill he amassed after his Oscar win for "Dallas Buyers Club" with his bizarre conduct in the name of method acting. He even freaked out the "Morbius" cast and crew by walking around with crutches and engaging in other forms of unsettling behavior...

Jared Leto appears to still be embracing his well-known method acting style, a practice that drew plenty of attention during his time on Suicide Squad. But this time around, and luckily for the Tron: Ares cast, Leto wasn't playing someone as menacing and disgusting as the Joker.

During the film’s San Diego Comic-Con panel, Leto’s co-star Jeff Bridges shared a humorous story about their time working together. In his usual laid-back drawl, Bridges remarked, “He’s one of those guys. Everyone has different methods and modes, man.”

The crowd laughed as Bridges continued with a light jab: “I didn’t want to offend him as a thespian, but I thought, ‘I wanted to have a certain intimacy with you. I know your name is Ares. Can I just call you Air?’ He said, ‘Yeah man! You can call me whatever you want!’ We had a great time.

With Marvel Mia from San Deigo Comic-Con, Disney pulled out all stops for its Tron: Ares panel. Dazzling light show. Eye-popping clips from the movie. A new Nine Inch Nails music video. A stacked lineup of Jeff Bridges, Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Gillian Anderson, Evan Peters, Jodie Turner-Smith, Hasan Minhaj, Arturo Castro, and Cameron Monaghan, along with director Joachim Rønning, and creator-producer Steven Lisberger, who wrote and directed the original, with certified nerd Kevin Smith moderating.

As Smith pointed out from the jump, the original Tron’s influence far outweighed its meager box office in 1982, a year where the sci-fi film was overshadowed by the likes of E.T., Blade Runner, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Poltergeist, and The Road Warrior. “It was a visionary science-fiction motion picture that wasn’t appreciated in its time,” Smith said. Indeed, Tron’s pioneering use of computer graphics and concept of the Grid,...

Jeff Bridges is opening up about working with Jared Leto for Tron: Ares.

The two Oscar-winning actors appeared alongside co-stars Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, Evan Peters, Gillian Anderson, Hasan Minhaj, Arturo Castro, and Cameron Monaghan to promote their new Disney movie at the 2025 Comic-Con International on Friday (July 25) held at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif.

During their panel, Jeff revealed what it was like working with Jared, who is a known method actor, on the movie.

Keep reading to find out more…“He’s one of those guys. Everyone has different methods and modes man,” Jeff said of Jared with a laugh, via The Hollywood Reporter.

“I didn’t want to offend him as a thespo,” Jeff continued. “But I thought, ‘I wanted to have a certain intimacy with you. I know your name is Ares. Can I just call you Air?’ He said, ‘Yeah man!

Cast members and filmmakers from Predator: Badlands and Tron: Ares attended the San Diego Comic-Con on Friday for two special panels hosted by The Walt Disney Studios and moderated by Kevin Smith in Hall H.

The first panel featured the stars of 20th Century Studios’ Predator: Badlands, Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, and the film’s director/producer, Dan Trachtenberg, who were greeted by the more than 6,500 Comic-Con attendees wearing Predator masks. A 7-foot-tall real-life Predator descended upon Hall H and used its heat signature abilities to scope the room, zeroing in on Smith.

A brief Q&a followed, which focused on details of the upcoming action-adventure film and included legendary creature designer Alec Gillis, touching briefly on the recent animated film Predator: Killer of Killers. Trachtenberg delighted fans with an exclusive look at the alternate ending of the film, featuring franchise favorites Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny Glover.

The...

Tron: Ares took over Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con 2025 and put up a neon-soaked show for everyone as Jared Leto’s Ares, Jodie Turner-Smith’s Athena, and Greta Lee’s Eve went off the rails in an action-packed preview. The long-anticipated third chapter of the sci-fi saga showed up at Sdcc with exclusive footage and brought the trio of Leto, Lee, and Turner-Smith, along with Evan Peters, Gillian Anderson, Jeff Bridges, and others, on stage.

The preview also dropped new music from Nine Inch Nails, the masterminds behind the soundtrack this time, and featured Jared Leto doing the legendary Akira slide. The Joachim Rønning-directed film will star Leto in the titular role as Ares, and the actor himself echoed our sentiments with his affirmative words. So, let’s look at everything that unfolded in San Diego!

Highlight of Tron: Ares at Sdcc: Revelations From the Exclusive Preview...

San Diego, California – July 25: (L-r) Alec Gillis, Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, Kevin Smith, Elle Fanning and Dan Trachtenberg participate in the Predator: Badlands panel in Hall H at San Diego Comic Con on July 25, 2025 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney) San Diego Comic-Con 2025 was buzzing as Disney’s Hall H hosted two of the convention’s most anticipated events: the Predator: Badlands and Tron: Ares Comic-Con 2025 panels. Filmmaker Kevin Smith moderated both star-studded showcases, giving fans exclusive footage, behind-the-scenes details, and unforgettable surprises from these highly anticipated blockbusters. Predator: Badlands Comic-Con 2025 Panel San Diego, California – July 25: (L-r) Dan Trachtenberg, Elle Fanning, Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, and Alec Gillis participate in the Predator: Badlands panel in Hall H at San Diego Comic Con on July 25, 2025 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney) The Predator: Badlands panel brought out stars Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi,...

No, Dr. Doom didn’t show up at this year’s Comic-Con. But Disney sure as hell brought the dazzle with a laser light show that one-upped what they pulled off at CinemaCon, complete with a Tron: Ares logo in full neon red and two Tron-like warriors marching to the front of the stage.

“Did you see that entrance?” asked moderator Kevin Smith, “That cost more than Clerks!“

At the panel were director Joachim Rønning with stars Jared Leto, Evan Peters, Arturo Castro, Gillian Anderson, Cameron Monaghan, Jodie Turner-Smith, Greta Lee, and Jeff Bridges who reprises his role as Kevin Flynn, the programmer from the original 1982 movie who gets caught in his own videogame. Leto drew big cheers from the crowd, as did Bridges.

In the third Tron movie, a highly sophisticated program, Ares (played by Oscar winner Leto) is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission.

Welcome back to The Grid. The new trailer for the long-awaited sci-fi action sequel, Tron: Ares, has now been unveiled by Disney, with the positively pulsating footage revealing more of what’s to come as the digital world seeps into the real one. And all with Academy Award winner and Morbius star Jared Leto at its center. You can check out the new trailer for Tron: Ares below.

Directed by Joachim Rønning from a screenplay by Jesse Wigutow (Daredevil: Born Again) and Jack Thorne (Adolescence), Tron: Ares stars Oscar winner Jared Leto as the titular Ares, with the rest of the cast consisting of Greta Lee (Past Lives), Evan Peters (X-Men: Apocalypse), Cameron Monaghan (Gotham), Hasan Minhaj (The Daily Show), Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen & Slim), Arturo Castro (Broad City), Gillian Anderson, Sarah Desjardins (Yellowjackets), and original star Jeff Bridges.

Produced by Walt Disney Pictures, Tron: Ares is the latest installment in...

Photo Credit: Walt Disney Studios Tron fans — this is it! We’ve waited a long time for a proper return to the Grid, and Tron: Ares is finally here. The anticipation has been building for years, and today, Disney dropped a brand-new trailer, poster, and images, giving us our best look yet! But that’s not even the coolest part for us movie and music fanatics. The Grammy-award winning rock legends Nine Inch (L-r) Jared Leto as Ares and Jeff BRidges as Flynn in Disney’s Live Action Tron: Ares. Photo by Leah Gallo. © 2025 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Jodie Turner-Smith as Athena in Disney’s Live Action Tron: Ares. Photo by Leah Gallo. © 2025 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Jared Leto as Ares in Disney’s Live Action Tron: Ares. Photo by Leah Gallo. © 2025 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Nails are composing the score for Tron: Ares!

Disney is officially bringing Tron: Ares to Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con 2025, making this a rare non-Marvel appearance by Walt Disney Studios at the fan-favorite venue of Hall H. It was also 15 years ago that Tron Legacy took the stage at Hall H. The futuristic sci-fi sequel has already made its presence known around the Gaslamp District with promotional banners, but this announcement cements its flagship Sdcc status. Check out the banners on the light posts down below:

Who Will Be At The Event?

While Leto headlines the movie, it remains uncertain whether he will be attending this years San Diego Comic-Con due to ongoing controversy. A recent exposé from Air Mail detailed allegations from nine women accusing the actor of inappropriate behavior, claims which unnamed representatives have strongly denied. However we can make the assumption that many if not all of the main cast and key staff for the film will be there.

Disney is officially bringing Tron: Ares to Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con 2025, making this a rare non-Marvel appearance by Walt Disney Studios at the fan-favorite venue of Hall H. It was also 15 years ago that Tron Legacy took the stage at Hall H. The futuristic sci-fi sequel has already made its presence known around the Gaslamp District with promotional banners, but this announcement cements its flagship Sdcc status. Check out the banners on the light posts down below:

Who Will Be At The Event?

While Leto headlines the movie, it remains uncertain whether he will be attending this years San Diego Comic-Con due to ongoing controversy. A recent exposé from Air Mail detailed allegations from nine women accusing the actor of inappropriate behavior, claims which unnamed representatives have strongly denied. However we can make the assumption that many if not all of the main cast and key staff for the film will be there.

The world of Tron has always been ahead of its time. The 1982 original was a game-changing early cyber-movie with revolutionary digital effects. Its long-awaited follow-up, 2010’s Tron: Legacy, was one of the very first legacy sequels, boasting an all-time-great soundtrack courtesy of Daft Punk. Now, 15 years later, Tron is back with another major upgrade – a massive state-of-the-art blockbuster that rewrites all the rules. The time for Tron: Ares is now. Load up the Grid.

The new issue of Empire takes a world-exclusive dive into Tron’s epic return – going on set of Tron: Ares to get up to speed on Light Cycles, identity discs, and rogue AIs. Inside, we speak to director Joachim Rønning, original Tron creator Steven Lisberger and the cast – including Tron Og Jeff Bridges – on how the Grid collides with reality this time around, and discover how Hollywood’s most prescient saga gets even more relevant. Plus,...

Greta Lee is producing an adaptation of Marisa Kashino‘s novel Best Offer Wins.

The 42-year-old Tron: Ares actress is also being considered to star in the series, Variety reports.

Keep reading to find out more…

The series is being produced by Hulu. Marisa‘s novel is set to be published in November and the author will be serving as an executive producer on the series.

The synopsis for the book reads: “Eighteen months and 11 lost bidding wars into house-hunting in the overheated Washington, DC suburbs, 37-year-old publicist Margo Miyake gets a tip about the perfect house, in the perfect neighborhood, slated to come up for sale in one month. Desperate to escape the cramped apartment she shares with her husband Ian — and in turn, get their marriage, plan to have a baby, and whole life back on track — Margo becomes obsessed with buying the house before it’s publicly listed and the masses descend.

Disney finds itself in hot water after Jared Leto, the lead star of the upcoming movie, Tron: Ares, faced accusations of s*xual misconduct. The studio is reportedly currently engaged in “crisis talks” to determine a promotional strategy amidst the disturbing allegations.

Nine women, including model Laura La Rue, accused Leto of engaging in inappropriate behavior, including flirting with teenagers. The report from Air Mail came out on June 7, and the actor denied the claims by these women. His representatives claimed that the “communications contain nothing s*xual or inappropriate” (via THR).

While there are no charges or civil suits filed against the Suicide Squad actor, the serious allegations could impact his image and the release of his film, Tron Ares. Disney’s marketing team is reportedly concerned about the film’s proportion. According to a source, the team had planned a major panel for the film at the upcoming...

When a third Tron movie finally got the greenlight, there was one big question that fans asked above all others. Not whether any legacy characters would return, nor what the latest evolution of the Grid would be. No, the most important question was: who’ll do the soundtrack? That’s because Tron: Legacy featured a legendary score courtesy of Daft Punk, one that electrified the film’s highlights, picking up the baton from synth pioneer Wendy Carlos and her work on the original Tron. But since Daft Punk have gone their separate ways in the intervening years, who could possibly step up next? The answer turned out to be perfect: Nine Inch Nails. Not a Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross score; one specifically from their industrial alter-egos.

The ask first came from Tom MacDougall, President of Walt Disney Music, in the wake of Reznor and Ross’s work on Pixar’s Soul.

One look at Jodie Turner-Smith in her Tron: Ares light suit makes it clear: you absolutely would not mess with her. The Queen & Slim star – recently seen in The Acolyte – looks undeniably formidable in her guise for Joachim Rønning’s long-awaited blockbuster, taking audiences back to the world of Tron for the first time since 2010’s Tron: Legacy. Meet Athena, second-in-command to Jared Leto’s Ares, ready to bust out of the Grid and take charge.

“She is hardcore and fierce and strong and loyal,” Turner-Smith tells Empire in our world-exclusive Tron: Ares issue. During our set visit, she walks up in a real light-up suit, with close-cropped bleach-blonde hair and eyebrow-free face – the severity of the look absolutely speaking to Athena’s role. “It’s really fun to play somebody who’s just totally uncompromising and brazenly going about accomplishing their objectives. And I was really willing to take that on right now,...

Tron has always been a franchise that breaks new ground, with the technology utilised in 1982's Tron and 2010's Tron: Legacy pushing VFX to their limits upon release. Now, it's down to Tron: Ares to update the long-running sci-fi series for a very different world.

Talking to Empire Online (via SFFGazette.com), filmmaker Joachim Rønning said that Ilm is treating Tron: Ares like it's "the Holy Grail of computer graphics," and adds that they set out to "elevate" this world and take it "to the next level."

That included motion-controlled camera movements, designed as if the lens is operated by a machine rather than a man. "The concept was that a program is filming a program. So it’s shot by a robot," Rønning teased.

Original Tron creator Steven Lisberger was on hand to say, "Something comes out, and it’s too avant-garde at the time. And...

Tron: Ares star Jeff Bridges offers a cryptic new tease about how he returns in the upcoming film. Directed by Joachim Rønning, the third installment in the Tron franchise follows the events of the 2010 sequel. Though Bridges' Kevin Flynn seemingly died in that movie's climax, the actor is now set to play a role in the Tron: Ares story.

During a recent interview with Empire, Bridges is pressed for information about his return in the new movie, and the star only adds to the mystery. The actor teases that the digital universe of The Grid opens up plenty of opportunities, including allowing a piece of Flynn to have lived on:

“Yeah, I was a bit surprised. You know, this is the Grid. The whole digital universe is all up for grabs. It’s all possible in that place. It worked out that I still have some sort of consciousness.”

Bridges...

When people think of advancements in special effects in Hollywood, they typically think of movies like 1933’s King Kong, Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, and James Cameron’s Avatar franchise, to name a few. However, old heads of Hollywood remember another film that helped change the visual game, Disney’s Tron. The Steven Lisberger-directed science-fiction adventure dazzled audiences with state-of-the-art digital effects, paving the way for VFX in film to show moviegoers things they’d never thought possible on the silver screen. Disney upped their game again in 2010 with Tron: Legacy, and soon, Joachim Rønning will level up the Tron Universe with Tron: Ares, coming to theaters on October 10, 2025.

The latest issue of Empire Magazine is pulling the curtain back on Tron: Ares with an in-depth discussion about filming techniques with the film’s director, Joachim Rønning. According to Rønning, Ilm (Industrial Light & Magic) treats Ares as “the Holy Grail of computer graphics.

“Tron: Ares” is taking its artificial intelligence plotline quite literally. In a new interview, director Joachim Rønning shared that he wanted certain scenes in the upcoming film to look as if they were shot by a computer program, rather than a person.

“Tron: Ares” is the third installment in the sci-fi franchise that began in 1982 with Jeff 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. Now, Rønning is taking the reins, with Bridges returning for the third film.

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. Jared Leto joins the franchise as the titular Ares, the manifestation of a sentient computer program that escapes into the real world.

The Tron series is back with a new movie called Tron: Ares, set to release in theaters on October 10, 2025. This film promises to take visual effects to a new level, continuing the franchise’s tradition of being ahead in technology. Director Joachim Rønning told Empire magazine that working on this project feels like chasing “the Holy Grail of computer graphics.”

One unique idea in the movie is how the camera work is done. Rønning explained, “The concept was that a program is filming a program. So it’s shot by a robot.” This means the scenes are captured as if a machine is recording other digital programs, giving the movie a fresh visual style.

The original Tron movie from 1982 was famous for its groundbreaking visuals, and its 2010 follow-up, Tron: Legacy, expanded on that with bright neon lights and a digital world called The Grid. Tron: Ares plans to push this...

The Tron franchise is getting a fresh new chapter with the upcoming film, Tron: Ares, set to hit theaters on October 10, 2025. This new movie promises to push the boundaries of visual effects once again, continuing the series’ tradition of leading-edge technology. Director Joachim Rønning shared with Empire magazine that working on Tron: Ares feels like chasing “the Holy Grail of computer graphics.”

He explained that the film will use innovative camera work that mimics how a machine would film, saying, “The concept was that a program is filming a program. So it’s shot by a robot.”

Tron has always been about imagining a digital world ahead of its time. The original 1982 film was a pioneer in visual effects, and Tron: Legacy in 2010 raised the bar even higher with its neon-lit digital universe called The Grid.

Now, Tron: Ares aims to bring this vision into a new era by mixing the virtual and real worlds.

Every time Tron comes to the screen, it reinvents itself. As revolutionary as the 1982 original was, 2010’s Tron: Legacy was a seismic shift forward in creating the binary world of the Grid. This year’s Tron: Ares is set to be another significant upgrade on the digital-world story. But all throughout Tron’s… well, legacy, one face has remained: Jeff Bridges. In the first film, he was legendary programmer Kevin Flynn (and briefly appeared as programme Clu); then in Legacy, he returned to the Grid as a much older Flynn, while a de-aged Bridges portrayed Clu 2.0, the film’s major villain. In Tron: Ares, Flynn returns once more – though how, exactly, remains a mystery.

That’s because both Flynn and Clu died in Tron: Legacy’s final act – or, at least, it looked like they did, with Flynn sacrificing himself to stop Clu entering the real world, in pursuit of...

Tron has always been ahead of the curve. That’s by design – if you’re presenting the story of a mega-advanced virtual world, you need to be at the cutting edge. The 1982 original was exactly that, pioneering visual effects in service of a tale that predated the rise of… well, everything that’s come since. Tron: Legacy took that to the next level in 2010, taking a quantum leap in its conception of ‘The Grid’ with wild neon visuals, and delivering one of the first legacy sequels long before Hollywood got hooked on them. Now, here comes Tron: Ares – a whole new evolution, set to propel audiences into a future they don’t realise they’re already hurtling towards.

A new Tron means another gigantic step forward in creating the film’s digital world. Ilm is treating the process of working on Ares like it’s “the Holy Grail of computer...

Starring Garrett Hedlund as Sam Flynn and Olivia Wilde as Quorra, this 2010 sci-fi spectacle Tron: Legacy has rightfully earned its place as an underrated gem and a growing cult classic on home video. Its breathtaking visuals and iconic soundtrack even inspired a thrilling new ride at Disney World's Magic Kingdom.

Now, the Tron universe is expanding with the highly anticipated Tron: Ares. This new film shifts its focus from Legacy's main characters, but it builds directly on an exciting idea from the previous movie's climax: Quorra, an "isomorphic algorithm," stepping out of the digital Grid and into the real world.

Tron: Ares will explore this groundbreaking concept on a much grander scale, with Jared Leto leading the cast as the titular Ares. The core plot revolves around an unprecedented event: more and more advanced algorithms are making the leap from the Grid and entering physical reality. This raises a...

Is Garrett Hedlund’s Sam Flynn of Tron: Legacy returning to the Grid? Grab your neon glowing tinfoil hats and study the tea leaves as the actor paints a hopeful picture of the character’s future for JoBlo’s own Tyler Nichols during a recent interview for the 2024 crime drama Barron’s Cove. Speaking with Tyler about the fan-favorite Disney property, Hedlund opened up about the possibility of Flynn returning to the franchise and his admiration for those currently working to make the upcoming Tron: Ares a roaring success.

“Oh, I think there’s a chance,” Hedlund told Nichols. “You know? It’s really the audience’s decision. I just gotta say, I take my hat off, wonderfully, for these guys bringing Ares to life. They work so hard for it. They were supposed to go before Covid. Then they were supposed to right before the strike, and they kept overcoming...

Tron: Ares Copyright © 2024 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Credit Disney If you’re a fan of Disney’s visually stunning Tron films, you know the original was a true trailblazer. For devoted fans like us, the wait for new journeys into the digital world on the big screen has been far, far too long. But after far too long a wait—and a few false starts along the way, including rumors of a 2020 release—Tron: Ares is finally set to become a reality and arrive in theaters! We’re thrilled that audiences will soon be able to experience a new chapter of the digital world first imagined in 1982. Tron: Ares is set to be a momentous event, welcoming back the original digital pioneer himself, Jeff Bridges, who will reprise his role. He’s joined by an exciting new cast that includes Greta Lee and Jared Leto as the titular Ares.

After about a decade and a half, Disney is sending audiences back to the Grid with the upcoming Tron movie, Tron: Ares. The movie will serve as a standalone sequel to 2010's Tron: Legacy, which fulfilled long-held hopes for the continuation of the beloved science-fiction saga that began with Tron in 1982. The 2010 sequel introduced a new character in Sam, played by Garrett Hedlund, the son of the genius programmer Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), who enters the program to help his father stop a malevolent program from invading the real world. With plot details for the upcoming sequel safely under wraps, fans have wondered whether Sam will be back, especially given that it will also feature his father, Kevin. Hedlund has now cleared things up in his recent interview with Screen Rant.

Tron: Ares seems designed to breathe new life into the franchise, aiming to draw in a new generation of...

Garrett Hedlund comments on whether audiences will see Sam Flynn in Tron: Aresafter the events of Tron: Legacy (2010). Directed by Joachim Rønning, the upcoming third installment in the Tron franchise stars Jared Leto as Ares, a sophisticated A.I. program that travels from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission. The Tron: Ares cast is confirmed to include original movie star Jeff Bridges, with Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Gillian Anderson, Hasan Minhaj, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Cameron Monaghan also confirmed to appear. Hedlund, however, has not been included in cast announcements.

In a recent interview with ScreenRant to promote Barron's Cove, Hedlund confirms that Sam will not be appearing in Tron: Ares. While the actor may not be reprising his role as Kevin Flynn's son in the upcoming film, he does express excitement about what it has in store for audiences. He also praises the production...

Warner Bros Pictures and Legendary Entertainment’s Animal Friends is heading to May 1, 2026 next year. The movie, which the Burbank, CA lot inherited from Sony, was most recently dated on October 10, 2025.

The live-action toon hybrid is from filmmaker Peter Atencio, off a script by Kevin Burrows and Matt Mider.

Producers are Legendary, Maximum Effort and Prime Focus Studios. Cast includes Ryan Reynolds, Jason Momoa, Aubrey Plaza, Addison Rae, Dan Levy, Lil Rel Howery and Ellie Bamber.

You’ll remember that Disney recently moved Avengers: Doomsday from the first weekend of May next year to December 18, 2026.

The first weekend of summer next year now has this hybrid road adventure movie and 20th Century Studios’ The Devil Wears Prada 2. So when does summer start next year? When do the turnstiles spin like crazy? Ala this year with Lilo & Stitch over Memorial Day weekend, which saw a record holiday start of $182.6 million,...

After Sinners, filmmaker Ryan Coogler will be reviving the X-Files franchise with an all-new TV series. While there's still a lot that is not yet known about the new show, there's a chance that it will feature the return of Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully, but she hasn't confirmed her involvement just yet.

Amid the success of Sinners, Coogler recently confirmed that his reboot of The X-Files will be his next project. He also shared that he'd spoken with Anderson personally, stressing that his hope was for her to be involved. In a new interview, via This Morning, Anderson was asked about Coogler's comments. She verified that she had spoken with Coogler, sharing what she said to him during that conversation. Anderson also reaffirmed she'd potentially be up for revisiting Scully, considering her respect for Coogler, though she stressed that the idea for her return has to be a "good" one,...

The official trailer for Tron: Ares just dropped a few days ago with exciting imagery of light cycles and other light vehicles traveling in the real world outside of the video gaming digital realm of Tron Programs. Ares, scheduled for theatrical release on October 10 2025, is the third installment from the Tron movie franchise, which also includes Tron (1982) and Tron: Legacy (2010).

The basic premise from the Tron movies revolves around the internal digital world of the Tron gaming system, where Programs battle Users from the real world. Generally, Users remain in the real world, and Programs remain in the Grid—the digital world. In the Grid, Tron (created by Encom programmer Alan Bradley) is a security program that fights Programs (portrayed by Bruce Boxleitner) on behalf of Users in death battles that feature Disc Wars and Light Cycle Races.

Tron (1982) was quite groundbreaking at the time with advancements in blending CGI...

Exclusive: The feature musical Kiss of the Spider Woman starring Jennifer Lopez, Diego Luna and Tonatiuh will be getting wide theatrical release October 10. Deadline first told you that the biggest movie at this year’s Sundance Film Festival had its North American rights acquired by Roadside Attractions, Lionsgate and Ld Entertainment.

Also opening on October 10 is Disney’s Tron: Ares, Warner Bros/Legendary’s Animal Friends with Jason Momoa and Ryan Reynolds, and the exclusive launch of Amazon MGM Studios’ Luca Guadagnino thriller After the Hunt with Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri.

The Bill Condon-directed Spider Woman, an Artists Equity production, is based on the book by Terrence McNally and John Kander and Fred Ebb’s songs from the Broadway show. Argentinian author Manuel Puig wrote the original 1976 novel upon which the 1985 Oscar-winning movie starring William Hurt, Raul Julia and Sonia Braga is based. Luna and Tonatiuh...

The mind-blowing aspect of Tron when it first hit theaters in July 1982 was that it portrayed a world inside a video game—a true digital world. Watching Jeff Bridges as "Flynn" jump from game to game in a completely abstract universe required imagination. Yet, no one could conceptualize the idea of that cybernetic world leaving the mainframe of a video game and entering the streets of suburbia.

That's what makes the trailer to Tron: Ares so fulfilling. The second of the trilogy, Tron: Legacy, was woefully underrated. The score, graphics, and direct connection to the original almost 30 years later was mesmerizing. Fans waiting 15 years after that were biting their collective lip until blood rushed out of their nose pending what Jared Leto would bring.

It didn't disappoint at all.

Ares declares war

In 90 seconds, fans of the franchise got everything that was needed to make this fulfilling—a score, graphics,...

The Tron franchise is gearing up for its third installment, Tron: Ares, set to hit theaters on October 10, 2025, and it’s already generating buzz with a fresh take on its iconic digital universe. Directed by Joachim Rønning, the film stars Jared Leto as Ares, a sophisticated artificial intelligence program that crosses from the digital Grid into the real world on a dangerous mission.

Fans of Tron: Ares have opened a can of worms || Image by Gage Skidmore, licensed under Cc By-sa 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

In an exclusive interview with Empire Magazine, Rønning revealed that Leto’s character embodies a “bigger theme” at the heart of the movie: Ares’ yearning to transcend his programming and become human, akin to Pinocchio’s quest to be a real boy. This ambitious narrative promises to blend high-stakes sci-fi action with a profound exploration of identity and humanity.

Jared Leto’s Tron: Ares...

Jared Leto found fame for being an iconic actor with films like Requiem for a Dream and Dallas Buyers Club. But that doesn’t mean you can’t have your bad days. Starring in Morbius and Suicide Squad, Leto’s career diminished quietly as the actor took a break from Hollywood for a while.

However, the official teaser trailer for Tron: Ares has been released recently and Jared Leto is absolutely shining in it. With the iconic actor taking the role of Ares, a masterful theory is also taking shape.

Tron started with a 1982 film | Credits: Walt Disney Studios The teaser for Jared Leto’s Tron: Ares looks fabulous

Call it bad luck or a considerable number of things that went wrong, one thing that can be said certainly is that Jared Leto’s Morbius was a disastrous failure. As if Morbius wasn’t enough, Leto had already received...

Tron: Ares director Joachim Rønning has drawn an interesting comparison between Jared Leto's antagonist in Tron 3 and a beloved Disney icon. Many would perhaps presume that Ares — the rogue A.I. at the center of the story — would be similar to the classic villains featured in Disney's Hall of Infame, such as Jafar, Scar, or even Captain Hook, but that is not the case. Rønning told Empire that the Ares computer program has slightly more complex coding than a traditional baddie, making him more like Pinocchio than anyone else.

"Not to be too clichéd, but I always thought about him a bit like Pinocchio. Ares wants to be a real boy. We talked a lot about him almost being an infant, discovering the world for the first time, and how we wanted the audience to see the world through his eyes. The little things that we take for granted,...

Tron: Ares – The Long-Awaited Return to the Grid Tron: Ares marks the third chapter in the iconic Tron series, and it’s hard to believe that fans are finally getting a new installment after such a lengthy wait. One defining feature of this franchise is the long gaps between films.Fans of the original 1982 Tron had to endure an incredible 28-year wait before Tron: Legacy was released in 2010. And now, after another 15 years, the next film is almost here: Tron: Ares, set for release on October 10, 2025. Directed by Joachim Rønning, with a screenplay by Jesse Wigutow, Jack Thorne, and Tron creator Steven Lisberger, this latest film takes the familiar connection between humans and the digital world to new heights—especially with the collision of these two realms. Plot Overview At the heart of the story is Ares, a highly advanced program that is sent from the digital world to the...

After a successful debut at CinemaCon, the first teaser trailer for Tron: Ares was released over the weekend, giving us our first taste of the Grid in fifteen years. The sequel 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 A.I. beings. Jared Leto plays Ares, and director Joachim Rønning spilled a few details about the character while speaking with Empire.

“Not to be too clichéd, but I always thought about him a bit like Pinocchio,” Rønning said. “Ares wants to be a real boy. We talked a lot about him almost being an infant, discovering the world for the first time, and how we wanted the audience to see the world through his eyes. The little things that we take for granted, or don’t see anymore. That was important.

The first trailer for Tron: Ares was released on Saturday, and so far, the response appears to have been overwhelmingly positive. While director Joachim Rønning looks to be taking a bold new approach to the long-running franchise, the visuals are impressive, and the story has intrigued fans.

The Tron and Tron: Legacy follow-up will see Jared Leto's Ares, a rogue A.I., bring The Grid to the real world. Talking to Empire Online (via SFFGazette.com), Rønning shed new light on what to expect from the character and how he fits into where Tron goes next.

"Not to be too clichéd, but I always thought about him a bit like Pinocchio," the filmmaker explained. "Ares wants to be a real boy. We talked a lot about him almost being an infant, discovering the world for the first time, and how we wanted the audience to see the world through his eyes.

Tron: Ares is here…literally. The first released trailer from Disney confirms what’s been a rumored premise for months: Programs are escaping into the real world. Cops are in pursuit of a speeder on the highway, but there’s not much they can do when it turns out to be a light cycle whose wall carves their car in half. Recognizers are descending on our cities and smashing skyscrapers. We need help…we need the guy in the title! But it looks like he’s not available, so we’ll settle for the guy in the subtitle. “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 A.I. beings,” reads Disney’s synopsis. There’s nothing here implying he’s sinister…at least not yet. Tron: Legacy hinted...

Who’s ready to go off-Grid? For the first time in 15 years, Tron fans are about to return to the world they love, one that began all the way back in 1982, and belatedly continued in 2010’s Tron: Legacy. Now, the saga finds new life in Tron: Ares – an evolution of the story that, rather than plunging audiences into a digital landscape, is busting the 1s and 0s into our world. Chief among them, Jared Leto’s Ares – the titular character who busts out of the Grid and into reality, with nefarious intent.

“Not to be too clichéd, but I always thought about him a bit like Pinocchio,” director Joachim Rønning tells Empire of Leto’s character. “Ares wants to be a real boy.” As a piece of coding-turned-flesh, he has a unique perspective on the world. “We talked a lot about him almost being an infant, discovering the world for the first time,...

Tron: Ares has been a long time coming. Considering that the gap between Tron: Legacy and the first Tron film was 28 years, extended sequels have become a common theme for the franchise. The upcoming film has a lot more eyes on it compared to the 2010 film, specifically because of the number of fans that the franchise has now.

Since there are a lot of new fans, they may not know the amount of patience the fandom has had for the release of the upcoming film. After the second part was released in 2010, audiences expected that more would be coming from the franchise soon. However, a decade passed, and there was nothing new.

A still from Tron (1982) | Credit: Walt Disney Motion Pictures

The upcoming film comes with a lot of answers and it would seem that Disney is to blame for the delay of the third Tron film.

Tron: Ares was...

After a thrilling 15-year hiatus since Tron: Legacy lit up the screen in 2010, Disney has finally dropped the highly anticipated official trailer for Tron: Ares, the electrifying third chapter in the iconic sci-fi saga. Unveiled on April 5, 2025, the trailer teases an exhilarating return to the mesmerizing neon-lit digital universe, packed with pulse-pounding action, a darker narrative, and cutting-edge twists that resonate perfectly in our AI-driven age.

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The trailer plunges back into the digital realm with Tron: Ares, directed by the incredibly talented Joachim Rønning and featuring the magnetic Jared Leto in the lead role of Ares. This reboot promises to revitalize the Grid and take it to thrilling new heights. The recently released trailer also unveils an electrifying twist: the Grid is gearing up to invade Earth, bringing a deeper, more intense desire for vengeance than we’ve ever seen before.

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Photo Credit: Walt Disney Get ready to derezz, folks! Disney has just dropped the first trailer and poster for Tron: Ares, the long-awaited third installment of the legendary Tron franchise. After the groundbreaking 1982 original and the visually stunning Tron: Legacy in 2010, Tron: Ares is set to take us further into the digital world and further. This time, we meet Ares, a cutting-edge program sent into the real world on a high-stakes mission. This marks a game-changing moment as the Grid and humanity collide like never before. Directed by Joachim Rønning, Tron: Ares features a stellar cast, including Jared Leto as Ares, alongside Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Hasan Minhaj, Jodie Turner-Smith, Arturo Castro, Cameron Monaghan, and the legendary Jeff Bridges. Plus, Gillian Anderson joins the adventure!

Tron: Ares is set to light up theaters on October 10.

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