‘Tron 3’ Moving Forward with Jared Leto - Hollywood Reporter

After years of stops and stars, Tron 3 is moving guardant astatine Disney. Jared Leto, who has championed the task since 2017, volition prima successful the diagnostic with predominant Disney collaborator Joachim Ronning successful talks to direct. The film, titled Tron: Ares, has a publication from Jesse Wigutow and volition travel 2010’s Tron: Legacy.

Disney released the archetypal Tron successful 1982, with Jeff Bridges starring arsenic video crippled decorator Kevin Flynn, who was transported wrong his ain instauration and teamed up with Tron, a information programme played by Bruce Boxleitner. The movie was not considered a container bureau success, earning $33 cardinal (around $100 cardinal today), but it was admired for its groundbreaking ocular effects and remained successful the nationalist consciousness for years to come, yet spawning the sequel, Tron: Legacy.

That 2nd film, from Joseph Kosinski, starred Bridges, Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde, and earned $400 million, not capable to get a planned sequel with Kosinski and his stars disconnected the ground. After years of development, Disney officially scrapped a Kosinski sequel successful 2015, and since past determination person been assorted attempts to ace Tron 3. Most recently, Lion filmmaker Garth Davis boarded successful 2020, but that iteration did not determination forward.

Ronning directed Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and co-directed Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales with his Kon-Tiki co-director Espen Sandberg. He has completed filming connected the Daisy Ridley diagnostic Young Woman and the Sea. Ronning is repped by UTA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Sloane, Offer.

Leto starred successful the Spider-Man spinoff Morbius for Sony past twelvemonth and connected Apple TV+’s WeCrashed. The Oscar winner has Disney’s Haunted Mansion and Darren Aronofsky’s Adrift coming up. Leto is repped by WME and Yorn, Levine.