GamesRadar+<\/a>, with the former claiming, “These things are not only creative choices; sometimes actors don’t want to be in it anymore.”<\/p>\nHe added, “There are different ways of looking at that, but I think the story fell into a place where we felt that we didn’t need the old characters to be front and centre. We wanted to take this into a new direction while, at the same time, honoring the universe that we\u2019re in.”<\/p>\n
Springer’s take was that TRON: Ares’ priority is introducing us to a host of new characters, led by Jared Leto’s Ares.\u00a0“We’re telling a story that’s 14 years later, and the most important thing is that we tell this new story in a way that works.”<\/p>\n
“To just throw cameos in, where it’s a parade of people that we love from this franchise, I just feel like it’s fan service that doesn’t serve the story. But we are definitely focused on ways to surprise the audience.<\/p>\n
“If we don’t touch something in this movie, I always think about where else we can play. I produced the animated series [Tron: Uprising] and I worked on the theme park rides,” he continued.\u00a0“There are all sorts of different ways to keep the mythology alive, whether that be in a film or a series or whatever, if we’re so lucky.”<\/p>\n
While many fans will be disappointed with the lack of cameos (and the fact that this isn’t a direct follow-up to TRON: Legacy), it has been a decade and a half since the last movie was released, and it’s not like it was a huge hit at the time.<\/p>\n
Whether TRON: Ares is going to find a greater level of success remains to be seen. Excitement seems relatively muted as of now, and it’s hard to shake the feeling that this will be another high-profile blockbuster that struggles to make its mark, post-COVID.\u00a0<\/p>\n
TRON: Ares\u00a0follows 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.<\/p>\n
The movie stars Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Hasan Minhaj, Jodie Turner-Smith, Arturo Castro, Cameron Monaghan, and\u00a0Gillian Anderson.\u00a0Joachim R\u00f8nning directs; producers are Sean Bailey, Jeffrey Silver, Justin Springer, Leto, Emma Ludbrook and Steven Lisberger.<\/p>\n
TRON: Ares\u00a0arrives in theaters on October\u00a010, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRON: Ares will take us back to The Grid for the first time since 2010’s TRON: Legacy, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,16719,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-140736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-tron-ares","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}