Jeff Bridges is back again for Tron: Ares!

Jeff Bridges has confirmed that he’s returning for Tron: Ares, which is presently filming and stars Jared Leto as Ares

The extended-awaited third entry within the Tron franchise is lastly in manufacturing. Six years proper after it was first launched that Jared Leto was in talks to star in a Tron challenge referred to as Tron: Ares, the movie was all established to start filming final August – however then it needed to wait round out the writers and actors strikes. With folks strikes round, filming is in the end underway. Earlier at this time, we heard a estimate from stable member Cameron Monaghan (Gotham), who acknowledged this movie will “actually drive forward what may be accomplished, from a visible standpoint.” Now, we now have a further citation in regards to the movie – and that is the one that every Tron supporter has been ready to hearken to. A estimate that confirms major Tron star Jeff Bridges is returning for Tron: Ares!

Bridges himself informed the Movie Comment podcast (with due to The Playlist for the transcription), “I’m heading off this Saturday to take part in a portion within the third installment of the Tron story I’m energized about that. It’s wild. Jared Leto is the star of this third a single, and I’m genuinely nervous to get the job achieved with him, and I’ve admired his work.” The actor additionally took a second to speak in regards to the applied sciences utilized to ship these films to the show, and his de-aged visible attraction previously film, Tron: Legacy: “[I’m really excited] to see what the engineering is heading to be all about [this time]. Once I did Tron: Legacy, we skilled to place all these dots on our take care of and all these kinds of things. And which is [probably] all passé. I skilled to see myself as a younger male or as yet one more character, however the identical male, nevertheless it was gonna be digitally created. I believe it was [de-aging], however I didn't like the best way I regarded in it I felt like I regarded extra like Bill Maher than myself it was kind of weird [laughs]. I’m anxious to see what the engineering and what it will likely be. I hear there may be even loads much less A.I. issues on this. It's going to be additional a easy set, and they're beautiful there are stunning units that I've noticed.“

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and Pirates of the Caribbean: Useless Gents Notify No Tales director Joachim Rønning is on the helm of Tron: Ares. Along with Bridges, Monaghan, and Jared Leto (Morbius), the film additionally stars Evan Peters (Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story), Greta Lee (Previous Lives), Sarah Desjardins (Yellowjackets), Gillian Anderson (The X-Paperwork), Hasan Minhaj (No Troublesome Ideas), Arturo Castro (Road Property), and Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen & Slim). We've got additionally heard a rumor that Cillian Murphy may probably be reprising his Tron: Legacy function to be the villain on this movie. 

Scripted by Jesse Wigutow and Jack Thorne, Tron: Ares is talked about to convey to the story of a massively modern Plan, Ares, who is shipped from the digital world into the intense world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s 1st face with A.I. beings. Leto is collaborating in Ares. As Deadline locations it, Ares is “a fictional character who crosses in extra of from the earth of videogames to world Earth.”

For 20-8 a number of years, director Steven Lisberger’s cult traditional Tron was a standalone sci-fi journey. Then in 2010 Joseph Kosinski took followers again to the planet of Tron with the movie Tron: Legacy – and since then issues have been a bit bit messy. Kosinski needed to make a 3rd Tron movie, to be referred to as Tron: Ascension, however Disney cancelled the duty when their film Tomorrowland underperformed. Evidently the script for Tron: Ascension would have featured a personality named Ares… and one way or the other the idea for that character has developed into Tron: Ares. Kosinski had reported that he skilled almost offered Leto a cameo in Tron: Legacy, within the Cease of Line membership the place Lisberger did make a cameo.

Leto is producing Tron: Ares with Emma Ludbrook and Jeffrey Springer. Russell Allen serves as govt producer.

Are you wanting forward to Tron: Ares, and are you cheerful to hearken to that Jeff Bridges is within the stable? Tell us by leaving a remark underneath.

Tron: Ares is scheduled to entry theatres on October 10, 2025.