Tron: Ares | Official Trailer

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Wait, so Flynn made another CLU? Let's hope this one isn't crazy.

When has Jared Leto ever played an unstable or dangerous person?

 

[James Gasik]

When has Jared Leto ever played an unstable or dangerous person?

I was referring to whoever Jeff Bridges is playing in this movie. Obviously a program, and Flynn died in the last movie, so...

EDIT: of course, who knows if this movie will even pretend Tron: Legacy exists, lol.

 

[dragoner]

Looks ok, I have seen them all in the theater. They should bring back Londo Mollari, I mean Crom with Tron.

 

[James Gasik]

I keep asking myself why the series is still called Tron. Tron's role in Legacy was a terrible way to treat the character, and I don't even see how he could return if the studio wanted him back (I mean, there's probably copies like the Kingdom Hearts Tron, maybe Alan has a Tron 12.0 he's been tinkering with), but it really seems like it's become an artifact title.

Then again, Tron wasn't even really the main character in the first movie, so maybe it's always been that way and I just never gave it much thought.

 

[Morrus]

The new CGI de-aging barrier is old voices with young faces. In the latest Indiana Jones movie, Ford's current voice did not suit the de-aged face used in the flashback section, and in this trailer Jeff Bridges' voice definitely does not match the face. And there was a (lesser) element of that in Rogue One with James Earl Jones' voice.

So I guess the next evolution will be de-aging voices simultaneously.

 

[James Gasik]

Until the day comes when all actors are replaced with programs.

 

[Ryujin]

When has Jared Leto ever played an unstable or dangerous person?

He doesn't play a dangerous, unstable person.

 

[payn]

He doesn't play a dangerous, unstable person.

 

[TiQuinn]

Then again, Tron wasn't even really the main character in the first movie, so maybe it's always been that way and I just never gave it much thought.

I never understood that either. They could have just made Tron Flynn’s username from the get-go and it’d have fixed everything.

 

[James Gasik]

I never understood that either. They could have just made Tron Flynn’s username from the get-go and it’d have fixed everything.

Yeah, I mean, in the first film, Tron is kind of a big deal- a powerful security program that functions independently without oversight from the main CPU, monitoring all access points to and from the system with authority to shut down any unsanctioned activity. He's certainly able to overpower most other programs he comes into conflict with inside digital space, as proof of this.

But he's more of a MacGuffin- he can solve the problems, but without Flynn's actions, he couldn't have succeeded. I have to assume that once Dillinger was ousted and the MCP nuked, Alan would have been given the greenlight to install Trons everywhere and sell copies of the program worldwide (the Tron seen in Kingdom Hearts was certainly a copy, though KH is highly unlikely to be canon to the films).

When he created the Grid, Flynn took a copy of Tron (certainly not the original!) with him for...reasons? The Grid wasn't hooked up to phone lines, so it was a closed system. There wasn't much reason to have Tron around beyond having a friendly space- in the Grid, Flynn was a veritable deity, though he ceded a lot of control to Clu 2.0. Clu corrupted Tron into Rinzler, his personal enforcer, but he was little more than a sword for the entirety of Tron: Legacy.

-I didn't watch Tron: Uprising, so I can't really say how important he was to those events.

Now we have programs being brought into the real world, literally reversing the original digitization process (which Legacy introduced, with Quorra coming to our world- wonder what happened to her?). Tron doesn't seem to have any relevance to the story anymore (I mean even Alan only got a brief scene in Legacy).

But hey, I could be wrong. I've read that somehow the Flynn we see in the trailer is the real Flynn, which feels like one hell of a handwave ("somehow Flynn returned") but who knows- it could be that when Rinzler was defeated, some part of Tron remained and Flynn merged with it to sustain his existence or something...

I don't know. I love the original movie, warts and all, and I really want Ares to be good, but given how the franchise has been treated all these years, I'm worried that this movie will be all flash and no substance.