TRON 3 Casts X-FILES Star Gillian Anderson
Here’s a fun casting update for the upcoming film Tron: Ares, the third film in Disney’s Tron franchise. X-Files star Gillian Anderson has joined the project, which is pretty damn cool! There’s no information on who she will be playing, but I hope that she gets to play a cool, badass character!
The movie is now being directed by Joachim Rønning (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Kon Tiki) and Jared Leto is set to star. The rest of the cast includes Cameron Monaghan (Star Wars Jedi), Evan Peters (WandaVision), Greta Lee, and Jodie Turner-Smith (Without Remorse). Anderson makes a great addition to the cast.
The story for this movie is going focus on the emergence of a sentient program that somehow crosses over into the human world. Leto will take on the role of Ares, which is the manifestation of the Tron program. Leto is said to be playing a video game programmer and tech CEO in what is described as the leading role.
Tron creator Steven Lisberger is also involved with the development of the film as a consultant, and he said: "The Tron team is hard at work. They are always hard at work. It's going to happen. My goal with these things in playing the Obi-Wan role is to say the one sentence that has an impact. I try to say something that is useful to them without getting into the weeds."
The script for the film comes from Jesse Wigutow and Jack Thorne wrote the script, while Emma Ludbrook, Jeffrey Springer, and Leto are producing, with Russell Allen serving as executive producer.Salt Path.
Source: Deadline