The long-awaited return to The Grid isn’t far off, because the long-anticipated Tron: Ares is among the many many tentpole releases slated for the 2025 films schedule. Nonetheless, along with a lot of the Ares solid being comprised of recent faces, the sequel will even be missing Daft Punk, the digital music duo who composed Tron: Legacy, however cut up in 2021. Whereas I want we lived in a world the place Daft Punk was producing the music for Ares too, director Joachim Rønning’s newest tease for the upcoming Disney film has me hyped.
With Daft Punk out of fee, Tron: Ares scoring duties have been handed to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, a.ok.a. the lads who comprise 9 Inch Nails. Though this duo will take some cues from Daft Punk for this new film’s soundtrack, Rønning knowledgeable Empire that 9 Inch Nails’ music are an excellent match for the vibe Ares goes for, saying:
With 9 Inch Nails making the music, this installment can be slightly grittier, slightly bit extra industrial. It’s been essential for me to distinction The Grid and the true world. In that sense, 9 Inch Nails lends itself completely into this new Tron world that we’re creating.
Though Tron: Ares takes place in the identical universe as the primary two Tron films, and Jeff Bridges can be again as Kevin Flynn, for essentially the most half it’s meant to kick off a recent begin for the franchise. Jared Leto stars because the title Ares, a program who’s despatched from the digital world to the true world for a harmful mission. This may mark humanity’s first contact with AI beings, which leads me to surprise what occurred to Olivia Wilde’s Quorra, the “isomorphic algorithm” who left The Grid with Garrett Hedlund’s Sam Flynn on the finish of Legacy, however that’s a dialogue for one more time.
Extra importantly, I’m excited to listen to how 9 Inch Nails’ music will mirror Tron: Ares’ darker tone and the way it contrasts between what we see in The Grid and what goes down in the true world. That being stated, Joachim Rønning additionally talked about that within the midst of the AI vs. actuality conflicts, the film will nonetheless have a human core. In his phrases:
What I all the time search for in any story is a robust emotional core. This movie will in all probability be extra emotional than persons are anticipating. It’s about the price of being human.
Jeff Bridges and Jared Leto are joined in Tron: Ares by Evan Peters, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, Cameron Monaghan, Sarah Desjardins, Hasan Minaj, Arturo Castro and Gillian Anderson. Jesse Wigutow and Jack Thorne wrote the screenplay. Manufacturing started in January and wrapped at first of Could. Whereas Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross aren’t any strangers to scoring strikes, Ares marks the primary time that they’re composing music collectively underneath the 9 Inch Nails title.
Tron: Ares hits theaters on October 10, 2025. Stream the primary two Tron films, in addition to the animated collection Tron: Rebellion, with a Disney+ subscription.