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After being teased earlier this week at CinemaCon, Disney has released the first trailer for the upcomingTron: Ares. It looks like fans are in for some real bio-digital jazz, man.
2025 hasn’t been an extremely kind year tothe House of Mousethus far, but the entertainment conglomerate is dead set on balancing the scales in terms of their box office returns.Captain America: Brave New WorldandSnow Whitedidn’t exactly pan out as Bob Iger and company would’ve hoped, but Disney has plenty coming down the pike that should help buck that particular growing trend. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures has at least one film releasing every month for the rest of the year, including heavy hitters likeThe Fantastic Four: First Steps,Zootopia 2, andAvatar: Fire and Ash. In particular, October 10th brings the third film in a beloved franchise for which die-hard fans have been waiting an agonizing fifteen years.
Disney has finally releasedthe first teaser trailer forTron: Aresafter quite a long wait. Principal photography for the thirdTronfilm wrapped nearly a year ago, and though it goes without saying that there will be a whole bunch of post-production effects work for numerous teams to slog through, fans had been hoping for a scant teaser for a while now. Well, it’s out, andanticipation for the follow-up to 2010’sTron: Legacyhas never been higher.
The First Tron: Ares Trailer Teases The Return Of Jeff Bridges As Kevin Flynn
There isn’t too much about theTron: Arestrailer that is super concrete. To be fair, all this teaser had to do was pass a vibes check, and it does so with flying colors. The prospect of sophisticated programs from Kevin Flynn’s digital sphere escaping the confines of their artificial home to break into our world is plenty enticing all by itself. Seeing a lightcycle promptly slice a cop car in half is enough to makeTronacolytes salivate. The Imagineering crews who work at Disney Experiences should look into adding a scene like that to the TRON Lightcycle / Run atMagic Kingdom.
Other than that, viewers will get momentary glimpses of numerous members of the primary cast, like Jared Leto, Evan Peters, Greta Lee, and Jodie Turner-Smith. Of course, the greatest tease of all comes in the form of Jeff Bridges' iconic voice. You don’t need to see the man to know it’s him. His line of “Ready? Cause there’s no going back” is enough to get the most skepticalTronfans excited for what’s coming from the film.
Film nerds across the internet are, of course, most excited aboutTrent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails doing the soundtrack forTron: Ares. It will be hard to follow up what Daft Punk managed to put together forTron: Legacy’s original soundtrack, but if anyone can do it, it is Reznor and Ross. The Academy Award-winning duo has worked on films as varied asThe Social Network,Soul, andChallengers. Their score forThe Social Network,in particular, still manages to be awe-inspiring all these years later.
Norwegian director Joachim Rønning—best known forMarco Polo,Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, andYoung Woman and the Sea—is at the helm forTron’s third outing. Here’s hoping he and screenwriters Jesse Wigutow and Jack Thorne do the franchise justice. It’d be nice to get another installment that doesn’t take fifteen years or longer to come to fruition.
Tron: Aresis scheduled to be released in theaters on July 25, 2025.
