Tron: Ares dazzled San Diego Comic Con with a parade of red light cycles last night and a red laser light show at today’s panel.
With director Joachim Rønning, 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 went into his own videogame.
Last year, the third movie in the Tron franchise turned downtown Vancouver into a real-life grid for six weeks of night shoots with light cycles speeding through the city streets.
Light cycles on Vancouver’s Cambie Bridge.
Official trailer.
Directed by Joachim Rønning ,Tron: Ares stars Jared Leto as an emerging sentient program who is sent with Jodie Turner-Smith’s Athena from the digital world into the real world to retrieve a valuable piece of code from Greta Lee’s Eve.
“I’m looking for something I do not understand “– Jared Leto’s sentient program Ares.
Jodie Turner-Smith as Athena.
“We’re not going there, they are coming here” –Evan Peters’s Julian Dillinger Jr. in the real world.
Greta Lee running on Vancouver’s Burrard Street as the real world.
Gillian Anderson
Hasan Minhaj plays Encom’s Chief Technical Officer for Encom.
Related: Tron’’s Jeff Bridges in Vancouver as Flynn for Tron: Ares
““Ready? Because there’s no going back.”” – .Jeff Bridges’s OG character Kevin Flynn to Ares.
I didn’t want to offend him as a thespo — Jeff Bridges told Comic Con about working with method actor Jared Leto.
Tron 3:
Vancouver filming dates: January 15 2024 – May 01 2024
Working title: Velcro / Lumen.
Writer: Jesse Wigatow
Director: Joachim Rønning (Maleficent: Mistress of Evil).
Cast Jared Leto, Evan Peters, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, Gillian Anderson, Cameron Monaghan, Hasan Minhaj, Arturo Castro, Sarah Desjardins, Jeff Bridges.
Producers: Walt Disney Studios.
Release date: October 10th, 2025.
Evan Peters is the evil tech exec Julian Dillinger.
In one of two clips previewed by Disney, Leto’s Ares and Turner-Smith’s Athena are generated by Evan Peters’ big tech villain Dillinger, descendant of Ed Dillinger from the first film. Dillinger tasks these programs to retrieve a valuable piece of code from Greta Lee’s Eve, who has a motorcycle of her own, though it is nothing compared to the roaring red lightcycles. Lee’s 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.