TRON: ARES Comic-Con Footage Delivers High-Speed Lightcycle Chases and Confirms a Major Plot Twist
If you weren’t in Hall H at Comic-Con, you missed an electrifying look at Disney’s upcoming sci-fi epic Tron: Ares. Exclusive footage shown at the panel put the spotlight on the kind of awesome action fans of the franchise are going to flip over, and there’s confirmed a twist.
The first clip kicked things off in the real world, where Ares (Jared Leto) and Athena (Jodie Turner-Smith) have been pulled out of the Grid by Evan Peters’ Dillinger, and sent on a mission to track down Eve Kim (Greta Lee).
What follows is a thrilling heart-pounding highway chase featuring the franchise’s iconic lightcycles slicing across asphalt with lethal energy trails. The pursuit barrels into a parking structure where Eve takes down Athena, steals her lightcycle, and tears off in a desperate escape, narrowly dodging Athena’s attempts to stop her.
The second scene takes us back into the Grid. Athena launches a massive drone to chase Eve, but the surprise comes when Ares intervenes, not to eliminate Eve, but to protect her. This moment confirms what the marketing has been teasing for months… Ares, the program designed as a digital assassin, is about to turn against his creators. It sets the stage for a really cool and interesting story.
Disney’s official synopsis for the film reads: “Tron: Ares follows 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.”
Directed by Joachim Rønning, the film boasts a loaded cast that includes Hasan Minhaj, Jodie Turner-Smith, Arturo Castro, Cameron Monaghan, Gillian Anderson, and the legendary Jeff Bridges.
Tron: Ares is the third chapter in the franchise, following 1982’s groundbreaking original and the visually stunning 2010 sequel Tron: Legacy.
Prepare to return to the Grid and beyond when Tron: Ares hits theaters on October 10.