'Tron' Sequel Trailer Released by Disney (arstechnica.com)
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- News link: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/04/05/2218210/tron-sequel-trailer-released-by-disney
- Source link: https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/04/go-back-to-the-grid-in-tron-ares-trailer/
> It's difficult to underestimate the massive influence that Disney's 1982 cult science fiction film, [2] TRON , had on both the film industry — thanks to combining live action with what were then groundbreaking visual effects rife with computer-generated imagery — and on nerd culture at large. Over the ensuing decades there has been one sequel, an animated TV series, a comic book miniseries, video games, and theme park attractions, all modeled on director Steve Lisberg's original fictional world.
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> Now we're getting a third installment in the film franchise: [3] TRON: Ares , directed by Joachim Rønning ( Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales , Maleficent: Mistress of Evil ), that serves as a standalone sequel to 2010's [4] TRON: Legacy . Disney just [5]released the first trailer and poster art, and while the footage is short on plot, it's got the show-stopping visuals we've come to expect from all things TRON.
The film's director says it "builds upon the legacy of cutting-edge design, technology and storytelling, according to [6]an official statement from Disney . And here's how they describe the plot. " 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."
Share your thoughts in the comments. (Anyone remember playing the [7] Tron videogame ?)
The first episode of 2012's animated Tron: Uprising is [8]available on the Disney XD YouTube channel ...
[1] https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/04/go-back-to-the-grid-in-tron-ares-trailer/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron:_Ares
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron:_Legacy
[5] https://youtu.be/9KVG_X_7Naw
[6] https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/tron-ares-first-look/
[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeo1kdQE2FI
[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W7V8BLScng&list=PLg6R6yXKSLYCvqzWk26c1xu52LVhPFDdD
Looks so dated. (Score:4, Funny)
Compared with all the AI slop that is being trust upon us, It all looks so dated.
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Yeah, not one of the actors has six fingers and none of the scenes have their faces melding with a cup they're drinking out of. AI is just some aWsOmE!!1!
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Would it help if we give the main character an extra set of knuckles on his fingers?
Not hyped here (Score:3)
Tron was a very interesting release at the time - the visuals were revolutionary, the story was pretty much 'OK' and built around elements that were very common tropes at the time, but it was successful, not a world-dominating hit.
Tron Legacy... it was just sad. "If we just do nothing and let it all wash past us, it'll be fine" was the moral. Well that's aged like milk, hasn't it? I didn't like it at the time, either. And it killed the old hero off as a sort of suicide bomber. But again, the visuals were pretty good and the soundtrack was perfect.
This next movie I have zero faith in and it won't be dragging me into the theatre. Jared Leto being such a well-known complete asshole taints the screen - I can't watch him and see a character, I just see an asshole. Combine that with the theme and finale of the previous movie and I care just enough to post about not wanting to see this movie because it's Sunday morning and I'm awake and bored.
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> Tron was a very interesting release at the time - the visuals were revolutionary, the story was pretty much 'OK' and built around elements that were very common tropes at the time, but it was successful, not a world-dominating hit.
> Tron Legacy... it was just sad. "If we just do nothing and let it all wash past us, it'll be fine" was the moral. Well that's aged like milk, hasn't it? I didn't like it at the time, either. And it killed the old hero off as a sort of suicide bomber. But again, the visuals were pretty good and the soundtrack was perfect.
> This next movie I have zero faith in and it won't be dragging me into the theatre. Jared Leto being such a well-known complete asshole taints the screen - I can't watch him and see a character, I just see an asshole. Combine that with the theme and finale of the previous movie and I care just enough to post about not wanting to see this movie because it's Sunday morning and I'm awake and bored.
I don't trust Disney offerings to be very good any more. Somewhere along the line, they forgot how to tell a good story.
OK, now release The Black Hole II (Score:2)
Disney is accused, in the new Snow White, of wrecking their best movie, ever.
How about the release a sequel to their worst movie ever?
Snow White (Score:2)
My initial reaction to Snow White was it was wrong to have Snow White not be, you know, WHITE. It's not just a name for her, she's supposed to have alabaster-white skin in contrast to her black hair. And 'fairest of them all' meant 'pale' and 'beautiful' simultaneously. The setting is a generic-fantasy version of medieval Western Europe conceived during the Renaissance, after all.
If you want to have a problem with all that, fine, that's reasonable. But the story is based in cultural cultural assumptions
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> and at some point you should probably just stop calling the story 'Snow White' and find another title.
They thought about it, but "coal black" wasn't well-accepted by focus groups.
> Do we complain about the parts in the movie Willow? (If 'we' do, please don't tell me, I'm about done with how stupid people can get)
One side, peck!
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They'll never top this re-telling of the Snow White story:
[1]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=... [youtube.com]
[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sYIHcBFn1zI
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> My initial reaction to Snow White was it was wrong to have Snow White not be, you know, WHITE. It's not just a name for her, she's supposed to have alabaster-white skin in contrast to her black hair. And 'fairest of them all' meant 'pale' and 'beautiful' simultaneously. The setting is a generic-fantasy version of medieval Western Europe conceived during the Renaissance, after all.
> If you want to have a problem with all that, fine, that's reasonable. But the story is based in cultural cultural assumptions mostly from late 1700s / early 1800s Germany and mixed with bits from around the rest of Europe. There's a lot to correct if you don't want to give a pass to 'whiter is better', and at some point you should probably just stop calling the story 'Snow White' and find another title.
I can agree that they shouldn't have tried all of the "for modern audiences" bullshit. Make a different movie.
As for Rachel Zegler's so called race, she is a mix of Polish (father) and Columbian (mother) So in my estimation, she can claim either, if race isn't important. I don't care. Physically, she's a beautiful woman. She has a nice singing voice. Although why they have her hairstyle in the movie echoing Lord Farquhar from Shrek, is kinda weird. Her hair is most striking as well. Personality wise, sh
Re:Not hyped here (Score:5, Informative)
The Ares trailer exhibits a Michael Bay level of loyalty to the canon: all hat and no cattle.
I was disappointed by the visuals in Legacy. The world inside a computer is _supposed_ to be all hard edges, as the original movie depicted. And the plot was just weak. And now Ares appears to be saying that well, the real world is just a simulation so we can project the Legacy computer world into it and break all the laws of physics. How hackneyed.
I know I'm supposed to just enjoy things (Score:2)
I hope they have a much more compelling explanation for how the stuff from the grid world functions in our world just like it did on the grid than I suspect they actually will have, because I'm the type of person that needs that to be satisfied. And it had better damned well not be "this is a simulation too" if only because it's lazy.
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Whoa Dude, like, even though we THINK we're in the real world, we're all in a simulation....
Hate Cult Will Kill All Disney Movies (Score:4, Insightful)
Saw Snow White. I enjoyed it and feel there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. I think that 99% of the people criticizing it have not seen it. So, I believe it's negative reception is unfair.
I think pretty much anything Disney makes from now on will be unfairly maligned. They should just stop. They have no market, as the haters have won.
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> Saw Snow White. I enjoyed it and feel there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. I think that 99% of the people criticizing it have not seen it. So, I believe it's negative reception is unfair.
> I think pretty much anything Disney makes from now on will be unfairly maligned. They should just stop. They have no market, as the haters have won.
Obviously some people will like it. But for a presumed children's offering, it might not have elements that a lot of people with children find all that great.
I find it odd that the failure of the movie is somehow the fault of YouTubers Critical Drinker and Nerdrotic, as some have claimed - the so called haters.
If this was a great movie, people would ignore them and go to it, making it a successful moneymaker. Putting aside the Star of the movie injecting her politics into the movie for a moment, and b
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> Zegler managing to tie the movie to the Israel vs Hamas conflict, eventually having her co star, who is an Israeli citizen, needing 24/7 bodyguards for her and her children.
Her co-star has repeatedly spoken out in favor of genocide, and she has a right to speak out against it. Gadot should take responsibility for her own actions, just like the colonialist government of Israel should take responsibility for its own actions, but neither ever will.
> This is where Disney has fouled up. If you have your star being a destructive influence who cannot keep their yap shut, and causes trouble for the film and her co-star.
If Disney wanted to avoid all controversy, they should have used AI. Then they could have avoided having people in the movie with opinions on genocide, which they have a right to express. Of course, Gadot's opinions are rented — h
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> Her co-star has repeatedly spoken out in favor of genocide,
Citations? I see her statements: "At least 250 Israeli have been murdered and dozens of women children and elders held as hostages in Gaza, by Palestinian military group Hamas," Gadot wrote on Sunday alongside a screenshot of a BBC story about the conflict. "Starting early morning more than 3,000 rockets were fired. Hamas is holding hostages, controlling bases and settlements in Israel. There have been more than 1,500 injured and heavy fighting is still ongoing. "'I hear their voices and they are banging
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I think the use of CGI dwarves was more true to the the original than would have been live actors. And, BTW, nobody needs real dwarves to create little people in a movie, as witnessed by hobbits. The original dwarves had facial features that reflected their personalities of Sleepy and Grumpy and so forth, which I think was likely easier and more emphatic in CGI.
The star running her mouth may have been the real fly in the ointment, but I had never heard of her before, nor anything she said, so evaluated
Dude, AI beings (Score:3)
Is not the preferred nomenclature. Artificial-Americans, please.
Tron vs. The Matrix (Score:5, Interesting)
In the trailer, we see red light cycles activate their jet walls during a car chase, and a police car drives into the wall cutting the car in half. We also see recognizers and gliders in what we assume is the real world.
This already bugs me because The Matrix tells us that a computer system is governed by rules. In the computer, some rules can be bent, others can be broken. Not so in the real world. In the world of Tron, you could use Encom's laser to materialize a program into the real world (Although there are problems with that - Where would the molecules come from?), but just because you can rez up a light cycle in the real world doesn't mean that it would work the same as it does in a computer system.
Please don't ruin Tron (Score:3)
I was young when Tron came out and it was mind-blowing. Of course, looking back on it, it is pretty dated. But, for the time, it was amazing. And had a decent plot, action, acting, visuals, etc.
Several decades later, I really enjoyed Tron: Legacy and think it was under-rated and did a great job of building on the original Tron. But a lot has changed since then, and I am not sure Disney won't ruin it now. The Tron franchise continuation deserves a good, original, and complex plot with excellent acting and not just a bunch of effects surrounding identity politics.
Excited (Score:2)
Much like Tron Legacy, I expect it will be a fun, action-packed movie but won't blow my mind like the original Tron.
Still, I'll be taking off October 10, 2025 to watch this.
Keep mining that IP (Score:3)
Maybe some GenX will show up at the theaters.
NIN is enough for most of us! (Score:2)
> Maybe some GenX will show up at the theaters.
As an unapologetic Gen-X-er...an awesome soundtrack from Nine Inch Nails?...take my money, please!!!! The movie could be dogshit...show me some cool CGI with that soundtrack from the trailer and I'll have a good time.
Was Tron so influential in 1982? (Score:2)
I was a kid in the 80s and as far as I remember no one talked about Tron, or even knew that it existed. Maybe it had more mindshare among cinema enthusiasts than among its target audience.
Re: Was Tron so influential in 1982? (Score:2)
Nobody want to remember what really happened - you were 12, saw it, never spoke of it again (similar to Star Trek - The Motion Picture).
Re: Was Tron so influential in 1982? (Score:2)
I remember feeling bad for dragging my father to see it with me (for both films).
next Disney disaster, then? (Score:1)
"Joachim RÃnning (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil)" ... Those are not film credits I would be waving around.
Dmtnt: 3 of 10 and widely regarded as the worst of a beloved franchise
Maleficent: 3 of 10
For me, it's all about the story (Score:1)
All the effects, nostalgia, and big name actors are window dressing. If you don't have a good story, you have nothing.
Disney does not know how to tell a good story anymore.
The trailer tells me nothing about the story. Just references to the old movie.
"It's difficult to underestimate" (Score:5, Insightful)
> It's difficult to underestimate the massive influence that Disney's 1982 cult science fiction film, TRON, had on both the film industry
Really? As in, it had *so* little influence that in order to underestimate the influence, I'd have to estimate that it had no influence at all, or negative influence?
I don't see why it's apparently so hard to get "it's difficult to overestimate" right here. (Obviously this isn't the sole example. It's a source of frequent frustration - with "understate/overstate" causing similar difficulties.)
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(I see on the article that there are comments about this, with one trying to excuse it as "The influence is so great that its greatness is very obvious, making it unlikely that anyone would believe it to be lower than the actual value." Nope, I don't buy that at all. It's just plain wrong.)
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[1]Shut up Wesley [youtube.com]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afhMMcAHlKw
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Laughable. This is an instance of an extremely common lingual error. No need to defend it.
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Kinda like "I couldn't care less" vs "I could care less"?
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I could care less how people are butchering the English language these days.
Re:"It's difficult to underestimate" (Score:4, Funny)
So you're saying it's being misunderestimated?
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> So you're saying it's being misunderestimated?
Misunderestimated, but that's part of their strategery.
Re: "It's difficult to underestimate" (Score:3)
Irregardless, itâ(TM)s true.
Re: "It's difficult to underestimate" (Score:3)
The Black Hole says hold my beer.