Disney Moving On ‘Tron: Ares’; Joachim Rønning In Talks To Helm Jared Leto In Sci-Fi Sequel: The Dish - Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: A caller installment of Tron is coming backmost online. The Dish hears that Disney is successful aboriginal negotiations to acceptable Joachim Rønning to nonstop Jared Leto in Tron: Ares. The movie is crewing up, eyeing an August commencement day successful Vancouver.

Deals aren’t implicit yet, but this would people the 4th collaboration betwixt Disney and the Norwegian filmmaker who helmed Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. He has wrapped for the workplace the Daisy Ridley-starrer Young Woman and the Sea, astir the daring travel of Gertrude Ederle, a New York teen who became the archetypal pistillate to aquatics crossed the English Channel. Jeff Nathanson scripted it, and Jerry Bruckheimer produces with him.  

Now it’s connected to the Disney sci-fi franchise, which began with the 1982 movie that starred Jeff Bridges and was acceptable wrong the machine programme called the Grid, wherever a machine hacker is abducted and forced to enactment successful gladiatorial games. The archetypal 1 wasn’t much than a cult favorite, though its peculiar effects were seen arsenic game-changing astatine the time. That pursuing swelled astir the movie successful years to travel arsenic it played connected cablegram lone helped turn its popularity, to the constituent wherever Disney decided to determination guardant with a sequel, Tron: Legacy, successful 2010, with Bridges reprising his relation and Garret Hedlund and Olivia Wilde joining the franchise. That movie grossed $400 cardinal globally, and Disney has been trying to fig retired however to proceed the franchise since.

The workplace got adjacent successful 2017 with Leto. Now it volition beryllium successful the hands of Rønning, who aboriginal connected broke into Hollywood co-directing with Espen Sandberg Kon-Tiki, the 2013 movie that was nominated for the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar and chronicled Thor Heyerdah’s epic 4,300-mile crossing of the Pacific Ocean connected a balsawood raft successful 1947. Young Woman and the Sea isn’t slotted yet, but it has been investigating strongly.

The Tron: Ares publication is by Jesse Wigutow and is considered the sequel to Tron: Legacy, which was directed by Top Gun: Maverick‘s Joe Kosinski.

Sean Bailey and Sam Dickerman are the execs.

The producers are Justin Springer (Tron: Legacy), Leto, Jeffrey Silver and Leto’s Paradox spouse Emma Ludbrook.

Leto, who adjacent volition co-star successful Disney’s Haunted Mansion, is repped by WME and lawyer Barry Hirsch; Ronning is UTA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and lawyer Warren Dern.