‘Tron: Ares’ Teaser: Digital Meets Reality in Dark Sequel Starring Jared Leto and Jeff Bridges


‘Tron: Ares’ Teaser: Digital Meets Reality in Dark Sequel Starring Jared Leto and Jeff Bridges

APRIL 5, 2025 12:02 PM If you weren’t already worried about AI invading our lives, you might be after watching this trailer. Following its presentation this past week at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Disney has released a new look at the third film in its long-running sci-fi adventure franchise, “Tron: Ares.” Directed by Joachim Rønning (“The Young Woman and the Sea”) and written by Jesse Wigutow and Jack Thorne (“Adolescence”), the film stars Jared Leto, Evan Peters, Jodie Turner-Smith, Greta Lee, Gillian Anderson, and the original star of the series, Jeff Bridges. If you weren’t already worried about AI invading our lives, you might be after watching this trailer. Following its presentation this past week at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Disney has released a new look at the third film in its long-running sci-fi adventure franchise, “Tron: Ares.” Directed by Joachim Rønning (“The Young Woman and the Sea”) and written by Jesse Wigutow and Jack Thorne (“Adolescence”), the film stars Jared Leto, Evan Peters, Jodie Turner-Smith, Greta Lee, Gillian Anderson, and the original star of the series, Jeff Bridges. Watch the trailer below. As per Disney’s official synopsis, “‘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.” Leto and Bridges were on hand to showcase footage at CinemaCon, with the former saying of the first film, “It was the ’80s. It felt like the future; action, adventure, spandex — lots of spandex.” Much like video games themselves, the look of the “Tron” franchise has become far less kitschy and in this latest installment takes on an even darker tone. Amplifying this is the abrasive, mechanical-sounding score from industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. Though the band’s members Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have scored many films before, including last year’s club-inspired “Challengers,” they announced at D23 in August 2024 that they would be embracing their old co-identity for this project, the first time they’ve done so on any feature.