Ahead of the movie’s big splash at San Diego Comic-Con next week in Hall H, Disney has dropped the official trailer to Tron Ares, their reboot of the classic 1980s live-action, trapped-in-a-videogame movie.
But consider the Joachim Rønning directed movie, an allegory for current days.
“So much talk of A.I. and big tech today,” exclaims Evan Peters’ Julian Dillinger, a corporate type who doesn’t seem to have a hippie agenda.
“Virtual worlds, what are they going to look like? When will we get there?” he asks in the trailer, “They are coming here.”
That kingdom come is in the form of an ultimate soldier, that being Ares (Oscar winner Jared Leto), who has come to Earth all ablaze in red neon lights, and the floating upside-down ‘U’ Tron-thingy; these shooting lasers are splicing this and that and forming all sorts of light-cycle pathways. Seriously, this looks like a lotta fun and we’re hoping that the laser light show in Hall H tops that shown in Disney’s CinemaCon presentation. Along for the ride, living in the spiritual matrix is Jeff Bridges’ Kevin Flynn, the original computer programmer protag who got stuck in the videogame in the original Tron.
A new poster dropped today.
In addition, Grammy-award winning rock band Nine Inch Nails, who composed the score for the movie, dropped a new single from the pic, “As Alive As You Need Me To Be” along with an official music video. It’s the group’ first music in five years.
