Cameron Monaghanhas teased the game-changing visuals of the upcoming sci-fi sequelTron: Ares, in which Monaghan will star alongside Oscar winner Jared Leto. Speaking recently withColliderat the Calgary Expo, the actor reflected on his mind being blown by the firstTronmovie before declaring that next year’s threequel will do the same to audiences all over again.
“I think this one, in a very similar way, is going to really push forward what can be done, from a visual perspective. I would sometimes even come in on days I wasn’t working, because that set was really amazing. A lot of the practical sets were pretty phenomenal, and I would love to go look at those as well.”
At present, both the plot and the visual plans forTron: Aresremain largely under wraps. However, we do know that the movie will be led by Leto as the titular Ares, who is expected to be a program from The Grid who is sent into the real world. The rest of the cast includes Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Hasan Minhaj, Jodie Turner-Smith, Arturo Castro, and Gillian Anderson, and is all set to be directed by Joachim Rønning.
Produced by Walt Disney Pictures,Tron: Aresis the latest installment in the iconic science fiction franchise which first began way back in 1982 and was continued with 2010’sTron: Legacy. A brief logline for the sequelwas recently revealedand reads, “Tron: Aresfollows 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.”
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As well as teasing the visual wonder ofTron: Ares, Cameron Monaghan remembered fondly his prior experiences with thebeloved world ofTron.
“I think I first saw the first Tron on a plane when I was younger. It was an international flight. I remember watching the original, and I thought it was from the ’90s or something, because it was pretty amazing how a movie from that era could look that amazing, and utilizing computers the way they did.”
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His connection with the franchise continued later in life when he was invited to attend the premiere of the legacy sequel,Tron: Legacy, in 2010. Starring Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, and Jeff Bridges,Tron: Legacyfollows Flynn’s son Sam who, after responding to a message from his long-lost father, is transported into the virtual reality known as “the Grid”. While the movie was met with mixed reviews, much like its predecessor, ithas since garnered a cult following.
“Then I went to the Tron: Legacy premiere when I was 16 years old, and had just done my first movie for Disney at the time. So, that was really cool getting to go to the El Capitan Theater in LA and seeing that on a big screen.
And that’s a movie that, I think, has now grown a cult fandom, in a similar way that the original Tron did as well, where people thought it was very technologically cool but it’s continued to grow. Tron Legacy, I just saw projected in 35MM at the New Beverly last year, and it really holds up, and has that amazing soundtrack by Daft Punk. So I like that those movies have a number of years of separation between them. They don’t come out very often, and every time they do, they show a new era of technology and filmmaking.”
Tron: Aresis scheduled to be released theatrically on June 19, 2025.
