TRON 3 Is Moving Forward with MALEFICENT 2 Director Joachim Rønning
It looks like Disney is finally moving forward with its third Tron movie titled Tron: Ares! Deadline has reported that Joachim Rønning is in talks to helm the film. He previously directed movies such as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, but his best film to date is still the 2012 movie Kon Tiki.
Jared Leto is still set to star in the film and it’s also being reported that the studio is assembling a crew for the movie, and they are looking to start production in August of this year in Vancouver. The script was written by Jesse Wigutow, and it’s said to be a sequel to Tron: Legacy, which was directed by Top Gun: Maverick‘s Joe Kosinski.
We don’t know much about the story, but Leto has previously that he would be playing a character named Ares.
Before this Tron film was put into development, Kosinski was making his own sequel titled Tron: Ascension. That movie was so close to happening. The whole cast was set, the script was done, production offices were set up and ready to go, and then at the last minute, Disney shut it down.
When previously talking about this story for the sequel, Kosinski opened up shared details on the story saying:
"The movie was called, 'TRON: Ascension'… What I’m excited about is the concept, which is an invasion movie from inside the machine coming out as opposed to one we’ve usually seen. So we hinted at that at the end of Legacy with Quorra coming out, but the idea for Ascension was a movie that was, the first act was in the real world, the second act was in the world of TRON, or multiple worlds of TRON, and the third act was totally in the real world. And I think that really opens up, blows open the concept of TRON in a way that would be thrilling to see on screen. But there’s also a really interesting character study in Quorra and a 'Stranger in a Strange Land,' trying to figure out where she belongs having lived in the real world for a few years, and where does she fit in."
He went on to explain what Quorra would have been able to do in the real world as the first digital human hybrid:
"I don’t see them having superpowers. I don’t see them being able to shoot lasers from their eyes or do what I would consider to be a superhero-type movie. But in her DNA itself, her being the first digital-human hybrid, there’s something in her being that allows objects from inside the Grid to exist in the real world and makes them permanent, so that was the idea. So I think the idea is strong, it’s just a matter of the right time and the right place and the stars aligning as they have to do for movies."
I doubt that this will be what we see in Tron: Ares, but we’ll just have to wait and see until new details emerge. As a huge fan of the Tron franchise, I have high hopes for this. Hopefully, the creative team delivers a great movie that tells an awesome story!