In 2010, 28 years after the world met Kevin Flynn in Tron, Jeff Bridges reprised his character in Tron: Legacy. By the top of the sequel, nonetheless, it appeared as if Kevin’s story was completed when he sacrificed his life to save lots of his son Sam and Quorra. And but, Bridges is one way or the other again for the 2025 film launch Tron: Ares. How is that this potential? Properly, Jeff Bridges gave probably the most Jeff Bridges response when that very query was posed.
Bridges’ casting in Tron: Ares was introduced in April 2024, and with 4 months to go till it hits the silver display, the small print of Kevin Flynn’s reemergence stay shrouded in secrecy. Nonetheless, Bridges is effectively educated in not revealing any spoilers. Empire tried get some solutions out of him on this topic, and he began off by saying:
Yeah, I used to be a bit shocked. You recognize, that is the Grid. The entire digital universe is all up for grabs. It’s all potential in that place. It labored out that I nonetheless have some type of consciousness.
It was revealed in Tron: Legacy that in 1989, seven years after the occasions of Tron (each motion pictures might be streamed with a Disney+ subscription), Kevin Flynn was trapped in The Grid, thus lacking out on most of Sam’s life. Whereas he was lastly in a position to reunite along with his son when Sam was lured into The Grid, it didn’t final lengthy. With a view to ensure that Sam and Quorra might escape to the true world within the newly-reopened Portal, Kevin reabsorbed Clu, his digital duplicate, again into himself, and this generated an explosion that worn out the islands above the Sea of Simulation.
For greater than a decade, I, and I assume many different followers, believed that there was no approach Kevin Flynn might have survived this, even with all the ability he wielded in The Grid. However to cite Kevin in Tron: Legacy, some “biodigital jazz” is seemingly at work to clarify his inclusion in Tron: Ares. Jeff Bridges is ok with that, as he’s nonetheless discovering new layers to this character, including:
As human beings, we search perfection. And typically we miss the entire level of the factor — the thought of the journey being the vacation spot. Flynn initially explored the digital world within the hopes of attaining some type of perfection for humanity, however now… the plot thickens, ? As The Dude would possibly say, new shit has come to gentle.
I’m so comfortable that Jeff Bridges quoted his Massive Lebowski character contemplating how Kevin Flynn was giving off so many Dude vibes in Tron: Legacy. It’s anybody’s guess at this level how Kevin continues to be kicking in spite of everything this time. We don’t even see him within the Tron: Ares trailer; he’s solely heard saying, “Prepared? ‘Trigger there’s no going again.” Proper now, I’m betting that The Grid in Ares isn’t the identical because the one from Tron and Legacy, therefore the crimson shade. So it’s solely potential that the Kevin is on this film is one way or the other a duplicate of the unique.
Tron: Ares opens in theaters on October 10, with Jeff Bridges’ co-stars together with Jared Leto, Greta Lee and Evan Peters, amongst others. No matter finally ends up taking place with Kevin Flynn, I hope that Bridges has a greater opinion of his depiction on this film in comparison with what he considered his digital self in Tron: Legacy.