Earlier this year it was reported that Jared Leto was among the names circling the third Tron movie, a project thats been hot and cold at different times following the somewhat lukewarm reception of 2010s Tron: Legacy (51% at Rotten Tomatoes; $400 million in worldwide grosses). While we still dont have a firm release date or cast, Leto out promoting Blade Runner 2049 says hes definitely excited about jumping into the Tron universe and expanding upon it, much like hes done with Blade Runner.
For me, when I was a kid, it was Blade Runner, it was Tron, it was The Shining, Leto told Rotten Tomatoes. It was these kind of elevated genre movies really blew my mind, as well as films like Clockwork Orange and Scorsese [movies] and the early work of Brian De Palma. But Tron is another one that I feel like is a world that were not done with yet. Theres so much more to explore and to see there. I would absolutely love to expand upon the world of Tron and see what we could do to bring that to life.
So What Would That Third Tron Movie Look Like?
According to Legacy director Joseph Kosinski, the current idea revolves around an all-out invasion film, with parts of it taking place in the real world and other parts inside the Tron world.
What Im excited about is the concept, which is an invasion movie from inside the machine coming out as opposed to one weve usually seen, Kosinski told Collider earlier this year. So we hinted at that at the end of Legacy with Quorra coming out, but the idea for Ascension was a movie that was, the first act was in the real world, the second act was in the world of Tron, or multiple worlds of Tron, and the third act was totally in the real world.
As for Letos role (assuming he remains onboard and the film becomes a reality), all we know is hed be playing a character named Ares, according to the original report. In Greek mythology, Ares is the god of war, and so it would seem like Leto might be playing a villain or, like he does in Blade Runner 2049, a character whose presence is both good and bad, depending on the situation.
