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Tron: Ares
Ares stands next to a red light cycle while looking at a city that is under attack. A giant red Recognizer appears above the city along with several aircraft. The film's title is overlaid on the city. Credits for the film appear at the bottom.
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJoachim Rønning
Screenplay byJesse Wigutow
Story by
  • Jesse Wigutow
  • David DiGilio
Based on
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJeff Cronenweth
Edited byTyler Nelson
Music byNine Inch Nails
Production
companies
Distributed byWalt Disney Studios
Motion Pictures
Release dates
  • October 6, 2025 (2025-10-06) (El Capitan Theatre)
  • October 10, 2025 (2025-10-10) (United States)
Running time
119 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$180–220 million[2][3]
Box office$142 million[4][5]

Tron: Ares is a 2025 American science fiction action film. It is the third installment in the Tron series and a sequel to Tron: Legacy (2010). Directed by Joachim Rønning, the film stars Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Jodie Turner-Smith, Hasan Minhaj, Arturo Castro, and Gillian Anderson, with Jeff Bridges reprising his role as Kevin Flynn from the first two films. The story centers on the rivalry between ENCOM and Dillinger Systems—now headed by Julian Dillinger, grandson of Ed Dillinger—as both corporations compete to bring digital entities into the physical world. Julian dispatches a highly advanced program named Ares from the digital realm into reality, marking humanity’s first contact with artificial intelligence originating from the Grid.

Development of a sequel to Tron: Legacy began in October 2010 by franchise creator Steven Lisberger. In March 2017, Walt Disney Pictures shifted plans toward a soft reboot with Leto playing a new character. Garth Davis was set as director in August 2020 when Wigutow was working on the script, but stepped down in January 2023. Rønning replaced him a month later. Production was expected to begin in August 2023 but was delayed by the 2023 Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Filming ultimately began in January 2024 in Vancouver and finished in May. By August, industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails had been announced to be composing the score. The band's members, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, served as executive producers on the film, alongside Legacy director Joseph Kosinski.

Tron: Ares premiered in Los Angeles on October 6, 2025, and went into general release on October 10. The film received mixed reviews from critics and was considered a box office disappointment, grossing only $142 million worldwide on a production budget of $180–220 million.

Plot

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Fifteen years after Sam Flynn's attempt to retrieve his father Kevin from the Grid, ENCOM and Dillinger Systems are in a race to bring digital constructs into reality. Dillinger Systems is led by Julian Dillinger, former ENCOM executive Ed Dillinger's grandson, and ENCOM is led by Eve Kim. Eve and her partner Seth Flores visit a remote Alaskan station set up by Kevin Flynn decades ago, believing his computers hold the "permanence code" to break the 29-minute barrier holding back the constructs. After finding the code, they transfer a digital orange tree into the real world, where it lasts for hours.

Meanwhile, Julian introduces Ares, a Master Control Program (MCP), to shareholders, calling him the "perfect, expendable soldier". Ares shows self-awareness, noting Julian's indifference to his survival, and interest in real-world phenomena. After Ares de-materializes, Julian's mother, Elisabeth, expresses concern about the limited lifespan. Julian disregards this and later uses Ares to attack ENCOM's grid for the code. A security fight ensues as Ares downloads Eve's personal data. During their escape, Ares, against his programming, tries saving an injured program, but Julian pulls him out and disables ENCOM's Grid.

Eve and Seth return to ENCOM with the code. Their colleague, Ajay Singh, reports Julian's cyberattack, forcing Eve to flee while Julian and Ares track her, with Ares and his second-in-command Athena chasing Eve on Light Cycles. Eve hits Athena and hijacks her Light Cycle, but Ares corners her in a nearby port, where Eve destroys the drive containing the code. Ares recognizes Eve's empathy as Julian digitizes her to the Dillinger Grid before Ares and Athena de-resolve (get "derezzed").

Julian becomes more determined to retrieve the code. Ares reveals it can be obtained using Eve's identity disc but will kill her as a result; Julian accepts this risk. However, Ares then lies to Athena, claiming that Julian is "indisposed" and attempts to bargain with Eve, asking to achieve permanence in exchange for Eve's freedom. Suspicious of Ares' behavior, Athena contacts Julian and returns with orders to de-rez Ares. Ares and Eve are able to evade their pursuers and return to Dillinger headquarters.

En route to ENCOM headquarters, Eve and Ares reflect on their motivations, with Ares determining that Eve pursued the Permanence Code out of a sense of inferiority to her sister, who worked on humanitarian projects. Eve realizes a copy of the code might be stored in a museum display at ENCOM of Kevin Flynn's original office. They reunite with Seth to digitize and upload Ares onto Flynn's original grid.[a] Athena destroys the particle laser to trap Ares and then pursues Eve. The sprinkler system activates, and Athena shows a moment of self-awareness before de-materializing. Ajay and his assistant Erin arrive, and Seth and Eve explain their plan to use Athena's own particle laser so they can free Ares and thwart Julian.

Elisabeth retakes the CEO position and she tries turning off the particle lasers, but Athena re-materializes and fatally stabs her, having interpreted her as an obstacle in the directive given by Julian to obtain the code "by any means". On Flynn's grid, Ares encounters an aspect of Flynn, and they discuss Ares's desire for permanence. Intrigued by Ares's wish to live permanently and his internal awareness, Flynn grants Ares the permanence code and sends him to Flynn's Arcade via a backdoor where he re-materializes.

Athena pilots a Recognizer into the city to find Eve, and eventually captures her while the ENCOM staff breach the Dillinger Grid. After Athena captures Eve and prepares to return to Dillinger, Ares intercepts them, engaging Athena and her allies. Ajay, Seth, and Erin penetrate and shut down the Dillinger mainframe, preventing any of the Dillinger programs (barring Ares) from re-materializing. A wounded Athena permanently de-materializes in Ares' arms. The authorities raid the Dillinger headquarters, but Julian uses the laser to digitize himself. Eve and Ares go their separate ways, with ENCOM using the permanence code to benefit the world.

Ares later sends Eve a postcard about his life outside the Grid and plans to find Sam and Quorra. Meanwhile, Julian explores the damaged Dillinger Grid and is transformed by an identity disc that belonged to his grandfather's program, Sark.

Cast

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See also: List of Tron characters
Clockwise from top left: Main cast members Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Arturo Castro, Jeff Bridges, Gillian Anderson, Cameron Monaghan, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Hasan Minhaj promoting the film at the 2025 San Diego Comic-Con

Additionally, Nine Inch Nails members Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross make cameo appearances as two F-35 pilots.[10] Shannon Leto, brother of Jared Leto and co-founder of Thirty Seconds to Mars, makes a brief appearance as a pizza parlor patron who witnesses the climax. Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde appear in their Tron: Legacy (2010) roles as Sam Flynn and Quorra through archival photos, while archive audio of David Warner as the original Master Control Program from Tron (1982) is used. Reporters Robin Roberts, Kara Swisher, Curt Sandoval, Jaclyn Lee, Trevor Ault, and Zohreen Shah appear as themselves, as does computer scientist Fei-Fei Li.[7]

Production

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Development

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Initial sequel development

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Development of a direct sequel to Tron: Legacy was announced in October 2010 by franchise creator Steven Lisberger, with Legacy screenwriters Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz set to return.[11][12] In April 2011, director Joseph Kosinski stated the script was still in development, while confirming that the film would continue on from where Tron: Legacy ended. He stated that the relationship of the characters of Garrett Hedlund's Sam Flynn and Olivia Wilde's Quorra would be "the next step", with the plot following their adventures in the real world.[13] On March 31, Kosinski said that the film's script was expected to be finished in two weeks and its working title is TR3N.[14]

In June, it was reported that screenwriter David DiGilio was hired to write the screenplay, as Kitsis and Horowitz had dropped out to develop their television series Once Upon a Time.[15] In March 2012, Bruce Boxleitner stated he believed filming could potentially begin as early as 2014, after Kosinski was available following his commitments to the film Oblivion.[16] In June, Kitsis and Horowitz stated that they were still involved with the project,[17] though by December, Jesse Wigutow had been hired to rewrite the script.[18] That same month, Boxleitner and Hedlund were confirmed to be returning for the sequel.[19]

In March 2015, it was revealed that Disney had officially greenlit the third film with Hedlund, Kosinski and Wilde set to return, and production due to begin in October in Vancouver.[20][21][22] In May, it was announced that Disney had scrapped the film,[23][24] Hedlund stated the reason for the cancellation was a result of the box office failure of Tomorrowland.[25] In July, Boxleitner announced the cancellation of the film had ended his interest in returning to the franchise,[26] while in September, Hedlund stated he was told that the sequel was not "totally dead", and would be interested in returning should a new film be announced.[27]

In August 2016, Brigham Taylor, then a development executive at Disney, revealed discussions were being had about Tron's future.[28] In 2017, Kosinski stated that the sequel was in more of a "cryogenic freeze" as opposed to completely cancelled. He attributed Disney's then-recent acquisition of Lucasfilm and Marvel as reasons for Tron being put on the backburner.[29] According to producer Justin Springer, the title for the abandoned sequel was Tron: Ascension.[6][30]

Redevelopment as Ares

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In March 2017, it was reported the franchise would be moving towards a soft reboot instead of a Legacy sequel, with Jared Leto attached to produce and portray a new character named Ares that was retained from prior iterations of the Ascension script.[31] The seeds of the film was traced to a conversation between Springer and Lisberger during development of Legacy about how the latter came up with the original film, that being how there was an obsession with a first encounter with aliens in the late 1970s and early 1980s when he lived around the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, leading him to wonder what if intelligent life didn't come from outer space but from inside a machine created by people yet not controlled by them. While the Ascension script was abandoned, the filmmakers made a conscious decision to develop some of the Ares story from that version, particularly its core concept due to their feelings it remained relevant. Since the release of Legacy, the concept of Ares had become more relevant with each year until its release instead of becoming more dated despite keeping older ideas.[32] In August 2020, Garth Davis was hired to direct the film, with Wigutow still attached to write the screenplay.[33] Patrice Vermette at the time had been hired to serve as the film's production designer.[34]

In March 2022, Leto confirmed that the film was still happening.[35] By January 2023, Davis had exited as director, with Joachim Rønning entering negotiations to take the directing job.[36] Vermette would also depart as production designer.[34] In June, Evan Peters, Greta Lee, and Jodie Turner-Smith joined the cast, and Jack Thorne was revealed to have written a draft of the script.[37][38][39] Cameron Monaghan and Sarah Desjardins would be added the following month.[40][41] In January 2024, Gillian Anderson joined the cast in an undisclosed role.[42] Despite the teasers present in Legacy, Rønning confirmed in September 2025 that Jeff Bridges would be the only returning actor from previous films, reprising his role as Kevin Flynn, while affirming that neither Hedlund as Sam Flynn or Cillian Murphy as Ed Dillinger Jr. would return from Legacy, both due to creative choices and a lack of interest from the actors' part. Springer also felt that "throwing" cameo appearances in like a "parade of people" felt like fan service which would not serve the story, so they opted to only bring back characters in a way that reminded the audience of their love for the franchise, but by surprising them in a way that works.[43] Despite the film not being set to address the cliffhanger ending of Legacy or the fates of Sam and Quorra, Springer affirmed that it doesn't contradict that ending and that Legacy remains canon.[32]

The studio planned to add an AI-generated character that would have been a sidekick to Flynn, a soldier named Bit entering the real world, but the plan was abandoned before filming to avoid potential controversy in the midst of societal and governmental issues surrounding the regulation of AI in filmmaking.[44][45]

Filming

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Principal photography was scheduled to begin in Vancouver[36] on August 14, 2023, but was postponed indefinitely due to the 2023 Writers Guild of America and the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strikes.[46][47] Following the conclusion of the strikes in early November 2023, filming was reportedly set to begin in early 2024.[48] In November 2023, it was announced that production on the project would officially begin following the holiday season of the same year.[49] In January 2024, Rønning revealed production had begun,[50] under the working title Velcro.[51] Jeff Cronenweth serves as cinematographer.[52] A first look image was released by Disney in February, with Hasan Minhaj and Arturo Castro added to the cast.[53] Production occurred on the Cambie Bridge overnight on March 15.[54] In April, Jeff Bridges, who portrayed Kevin Flynn and Clu in the previous Tron films, confirmed his involvement in the film.[55] Filming wrapped on May 1.[56] Jesse Wigutow received sole credit for the film's screenplay, along with a story credit with David Digilio, while off-screen additional literary material credits were attributed to Jez Butterworth, Brian Duffield, Justin Haythe, Nicole Holofcener, Tom McCarthy, Megan McDonnell, Jack Thorne, and Billy Ray, as well as Legacy screenwriters Horowitz and Kitsis.[57]

Post-production

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Tyler Nelson serves as the editor.[58] The film's visual effects were provided by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Distillery VFX, Image Engine, Lola VFX, GMUNK, OPSIS and Imaginary Forces, with David Seager serving as the film's visual effects supervisor.[59]

Soundtrack

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Main article: Tron: Ares (soundtrack)

In 2020, shortly after completing work on the film Soul, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were approached by Tom MacDougall, president of Walt Disney Music, to work on Tron: Ares.[60] In August 2024, it was announced Nine Inch Nails would score the film. The use of the band's name was at Disney's request; the last score released under the Nine Inch Nails moniker was the 1996 videogame Quake.[61][62] The duo had previously composed nineteen film, television, and game soundtracks, which were credited with their own names.[62][63]

Reznor explained that taking the Nine Inch Nails name influenced their approach to scoring Tron: Ares, putting them in a "grittier" mindset and allowing them to "play by different rules", something Disney was pleased with.[64] For Rønning, it was important to "contrast The Grid and the real world," and that Nine Inch Nails, an industrial rock band, "lend itself perfectly into a new, more industrial Tron."[65] In August 2024, premiering at the D23 event in Anaheim, the special footage for Tron: Ares included a remix of the Nine Inch Nails song "Something I Can Never Have".[66][67]

On July 17, 2025, a new single "As Alive as You Need Me to Be" was released, and the soundtrack album was released on September 19, 2025, by Interscope Records, Walt Disney Records, and The Null Corporation.[68][69][70] The soundtrack was nominated for the 2025 Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Score in a Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film.[71]

Additional music

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Alongside the Nine inch Nails' score, snippets of songs ("I Know You Can Feel It", "As Alive as You Need Me to Be" and "Who Wants to Live Forever?") and recordings by other artists are also featured in Tron: Ares:[72]

Release

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Tron: Ares was released theatrically on October 10, 2025, including in RealD 3D, 4DX, ScreenX, Dolby Cinema, and IMAX.[75][76] Tron: Ares marks the first film in the Tron series to be given a PG-13 rating by the Motion Picture Association, after its predecessors were rated PG.[b]

Marketing

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$102.5 million was spent advertising the film.[3] Bridges, Leto and the rest of the cast appeared at D23 2024 in Anaheim, where a first look was shown.[78] The same footage was showcased in D23 Brazil 2024.[79] Bridges and Leto also appeared at CinemaCon 2025 to debut new footage for the film, which was subsequently released online as a teaser trailer on April 5 of the same year, along with a teaser poster.[80][81]

In June 2025, TheWrap reported that Disney would be presenting the film at San Diego Comic-Con's Hall H in July that same year.[82] The official trailer was released on July 17, 2025, accompanied by the new Nine Inch Nails song "As Alive as You Need Me to Be".[83]

In August 2025, it was announced that Marvel Comics would publish Tron: Ares themed variant covers across their October titles, depicting their superhero characters through the lens of the Tron universe.[84] Later that same month, during the 2025 Destination D23 showcase, it was announced that a new overlay inspired by Tron: Ares (featuring red lighting and music by Nine Inch Nails) would be coming to Tron Lightcycle Power Run attraction for a limited time beginning on September 15, 2025, at the Walt Disney World Resort and September 16, 2025, at the Shanghai Disney Resort.[85]

Home media

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Tron: Ares is set to be released on digital streaming on December 2, 2025, and on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD on January 6, 2026.[86]

Reception

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Box office

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As of November 17, 2025, Tron: Ares has grossed $73 million in the United States and Canada and $69 million in other territories for a total of $142 million worldwide.[4][5]

Deadline Hollywood reported a total cost of $347.5 million, including production and advertising and estimated that it ultimately would lose the studio over $132 million with an estimated box office total gross of $160 million.[3]

In its worldwide opening weekend, Tron: Ares was projected to gross $45–50 million in the United States and Canada and an additional $40–45 million overseas for a total of $85–95 million.[87][88] The film made $4.8 million from advanced screenings and Thursday night previews.[89] Following its domestic opening day of $14.3 million (including previews), weekend estimates were lowered to $35 million.[90] It went on to debut to $33.5 million in the U.S. and Canada, leading the domestic box office but falling short of Legacy's $44 million opening (unadjusted for inflation), and grossed $60 million worldwide.[91][92] In its second weekend, the film dropped 65%, grossing $11 million, finishing second behind newcomer Black Phone 2.[93]

Critical reception

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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 54% of 257 critics' reviews are positive. The website's consensus reads: "A sensory feast of vivid neon hues and a hypnotic soundtrack, Tron: Ares is gorgeous to behold but too narratively programmatic to achieve an authentically human dimension."[94] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 48 out of 100, based on 49 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[95] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale, the same grade as its predecessors.[96]

David Rooney, writing for The Hollywood Reporter, praised Jared Leto's "refreshingly subdued performance" as the eponymous digital program, highlighting how this restrained approach added both an "emotional hook" and an "occasional touch of humor", and commended the film's design for honoring the franchise's roots while taking "significant steps forward".[97] Tara Brady of The Irish Times echoed this sentiment, writing that Ares was better than its predecessor, citing the soundtrack and performances (particularly Leto and Lee), but noting that it "could pass for a visual album".[98] In a four-out-of-four-star review, Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com called it "spectacularly designed, swiftly paced, thoughtfully written, and directed within an inch of its neon-hued life".[99] Wendy Ide of The Observer explained that "Tron: Ares posits the terrifying possibility that AI may not destroy the human race but could just be really sanctimonious and annoying, with its perfect skin tone and chiselled bone structure and prolonged, meaningful eye contact".[100] Katie Walsh of Chicago Tribune wrote, "Rønning, who helmed a later Pirates of the Caribbean film and Young Woman and the Sea, provides serviceable direction of the material without offering much innovation. The film loses fidelity toward the end, as it becomes a crashy, pixelated monster movie, as the real world has no capability for hosting the sleek, bloodless appeal of the grid".[101]

John Nugent of Empire magazine gave the film three stars out of five, writing that "You'll coo... in the manner of a toddler having some keys jangled at them", and calling it "fun if forgettable futuristic fluff."[102] David Ehrlich of IndieWire graded the film C+, praising the score by Nine Inch Nails as playing a "pivotal role in giving this sequel its own sense of violent self-identity".[103] Kyle Smith of The Wall Street Journal stated that "Tron: Ares is essentially a laser-light-show redo of the first two Terminator movies, with Eve as Sarah Connor, minus the suspense, the scares and the witty dialogue".[104] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film one star out of five, calling it "mind-bendingly dull".[73] Robbie Collin of The Telegraph and Clarisse Loughrey of The Independent also awarded the film one star.[105][106]

In an October 2025 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Bridges reflected on the film's performance and expressed hope that it would receive a cult following over time.[107]

Accolades

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Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Grammy Awards February 1, 2026 Best Rock Song Nine Inch Nails for "As Alive as You Need Me to Be” Pending [108]
Best Song Written for Visual Media Pending
Hollywood Music in Media Awards November 19, 2025 Original Score – Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film Nine Inch Nails Nominated [109]

Notes

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  1. ^ As depicted in Tron (1982)
  2. ^ Tron was released before the PG-13 rating adoption on July 1, 1984.[77]

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