{"id":38198,"date":"2025-07-26T07:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T07:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/38198\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T07:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T07:11:09","slug":"ares-light-cycle-battle-clips-at-comic-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/38198\/","title":{"rendered":"Ares’ Light Cycle Battle Clips At Comic Con"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNo, Dr. Doom didn\u2019t show up at this year\u2019s Comic-Con<\/a>. 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<\/a> logo in full neon red and two Tron-like warriors marching to the front of the stage.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDid you see that entrance?\u201d asked moderator Kevin Smith, \u201cThat cost more than Clerks!\u201c<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the panel were director Joachim R\u00f8nning 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.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 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. Evan Peters is the evil tech exec Julian Dillinger. <\/p>\n

\n\tBridges exclaimed about the legacy of the franchise, \u201c1982! 43 years ago! C\u2019mon man! And we\u2019re continuing the story? Steven (Lisberger) created this wild world that was so fun to be a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Oscar winning Dude then lamented, \u201cThese times, artificial intelligence is on everybody\u2019s minds and hearts these days.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Tron Ares\u2019 <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWalt Disney Studios<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe most important thing is that we kick this technology around artistically before it kicks us around,\u201d Lisberger said. \u201cI\u2019m eeries about hearing the grim news about the future. And the way to avoid that is to get talented people like the crew that\u2019s on my left and inspire young people about what can be done with this technology.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat\u2019s what Tron is all about,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI am an official Tron superfan. If I wasn\u2019t on the stage, I would be in the audience right now cheering like all these crazy people here,\u201d Leto said. \u201cIt was 1982, video games were exploding and films were a huge part of my life when I was a kid. This movie just grabbed hold of me. It grabbed my imagination, and it showed me what was possible in the world. Movies like this really gave me something to dream for and dream about.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe worked on this movie for 9, I think it\u2019s 10 years now. It started with the word Ares,\u201d the Dallas Buyers Club Oscar winner said. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI just can\u2019t stop smiling because I\u2019m working with [Jeff Bridges],\u201d he added after explaining that his first scene shooting, he yelled \u201cCut!\u201d right away.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Atmosphere<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tThe \u2018Tron: Ares\u2019 panel Friday at Comic-Con<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMichael Buckner<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGreta, you got a script for this, and you\u2019re like this is like Past Lives,\u201d joked Smith.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s only two people in this room who get that joke,\u201d said Lee who then quipped the only reason why she wanted to do Tron: Ares is because \u201cI got to ride a lightcycle.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tIn one of two clips previewed by Disney, Leto\u2019s Ares and Turner-Smith\u2019s Athena are generated by Evan Peters\u2019 big tech villain, descendant of Ed Dillinger from the first film. Dillinger tasks these programs to retrieve a valuable piece of code from Greta Lee\u2019s Eve, who has a motorcycle of her own, though it is nothing compared to their roaring red lightcycles. Lee\u2019s Eve bates Athena up through a spiral parking garage tunnel and knocks her off her lightcycle. You can guess what came next. To protect the hard drive with the code on it, Eve had to hop on the light cycle to get away from a revived Athena, bionic woman who survived the couple-story fall and ran back up only for Eve to barely get away.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe audience also heard from Minhaj, whose official role is the Chief Technical Officer for Encom, and Castro, who jokingly claimed he thought they \u201cwere shooting a rom com\u201d before he saw the new footage in the room.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Lionsgate Screens First 20 Minutes Of \u2018The Long Walk\u2019 And Debuts New Trailer At Comic-Con; \u201cWe Were Able To Keep The Teeth\u201d Screenwriter Says<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tThe second clip showed Ares and Eve now seemingly teamed up while Athena, who is Ares\u2019 second in command, hunts them down. Eve has a disc of her own, and she is limned in the light blue light reminiscent of Tron: Legacy. Ares takes her on a hybrid water ski and submarine vehicle to get her to the transfer portal, striking a bargain with her that he will help her escape if she brings him the code Dillinger originally wanted. Ares, whose disc is triangular, disobeyed his directive from Dillinger, and now he wants the code for himself.<\/p>\n

\n\tGrammy-winning rock band\u00a0Nine Inch Nails<\/a>, is behind the score for Tron: Ares a la pop band Daft Punk, who composed the score for the 2010 movie, Tron: Legacy. Last week, the Nine Inch Nails ditty from the movie \u201cAs Alive As You Need Me To Be\u201d was dropped. It\u2019s the group\u2019s first music in five years. When asked why he wasn\u2019t consulted about the music, Leto said that NIN \u201cabsolutely\u201d filled the big shoes left behind by the electronic dance-pop duo.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Predator: Badlands\u2019 First 15 Minutes Unveiled At Comic-Con<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No, Dr. Doom didn\u2019t show up at this year\u2019s Comic-Con. But Disney sure as hell brought the dazzle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[27298,27299,88,1632],"class_list":{"0":"post-38198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-comic-con","9":"tag-comic-con-2025","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tron-ares"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}