This submit comprises spoilers for “Tron: Ares”
The hole between the “Tron” motion pictures has tightened, with “Tron: Ares” (learn our evaluate right here) lastly arriving 15 years after “Tron: Legacy,” which itself got here 28 years after the unique enterprise into the Grid. Just like the second installment, “Tron: Ares” introduces a brand new solid of characters vulnerable to being derezzed to interchange these noticeably lacking from its predecessor. Followers of the franchise needn’t fear, nonetheless, as a result of it is in skirting across the previous of “Tron: Legacy” that “Tron: Ares” units up a future chapter that we hope will arrive a lot before it took for this and the earlier movie to load up.
Maybe one of many boldest issues “Tron: Ares” does is daring to tie again to a movie that, for probably the most half, it pays little or no consideration to. When our third journey into the Grid begins, we’re knowledgeable that Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), the son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges, the one “Tron” solid member to return in “Ares”), and escaped program, Quorra (Oliva Wilde) haven’t been seen since they rode off into the sundown on the finish of “Legacy,” seemingly leaving the enterprise and digital world behind them. Now, all focus is on Flynn Jr.’s successor, the brand new ENCOM CEO, Eve Kim (Greta Lee), who’s searching for the Permanence Code that can hold digital creations in the true world, whether or not it is an orange tree to resolve meals shortage or Ares (Jared Leto), an escaped program made by Julian Dillinger (Evan Peters), the grandson of unique “Tron” antatonist, Edward Dillinger (David Warner).
Ares has his eye on Sam and Quorra very early on in Tron: Ares
It is revealed early on that Sam has since left the corporate and handed possession to Eve, but it surely’s throughout Ares’ infiltration of ENCOM that this system learns that one other like him has managed to flee into the true world. Whereas scouring via information looking for Eve’s whereabouts and the Permanence Code, he stumbles throughout an article highlighting “Who’s Sam Flynn’s Thriller Girl?” that we all know to be Quorra, earlier than it shortly passes him utterly. Transient as it’s, it is a clear indication that the 2 caught round collectively after their journey within the Grid. It is solely within the movie’s closing act that the heroic program, which has now been turned absolutely human, picks up the path and hints at what may very well be on the horizon.
In a letter to Eve, Ares reveals that he is touring the world and looking for his place in it. The final pit cease we see him make is in Mexico Metropolis, the place he is proven to have swapped his neon-lit gear for much extra breathable linenwear. Whereas taking a beat, Ares skims over photographs of Sam and Quorra, which have coordinates detailing their final recognized whereabouts written on them, and making certain that greater than the earlier movies ever did, a sequel is totally being arrange. It is only a query of what it might contain, and if we’d see the brand new and outdated(ish) technology of “Tron” team-up towards a model new menace.
Flynn Lives, however might he return in Tron 4?
Apart from Ares heading off in quest of Sam Flynn, a extra ominous closing word sees Julian Dillinger escaping the authorities and discovering himself within the Grid. Outrunning the legislation turns into the least of his troubles, although, when, after taking maintain of the Id Disc beforehand owned by the unique “Tron” villain, Sark (David Warner), Julian seemingly turns into the following technology of evil program that brought on issues again in 1982.
With Julian getting this new improve, it is protected to say that plans are in place for the franchise to host one other battle on or off The Grid, with the ex-head of Dillinger Programs going up towards Ares. What can be nice to see is that if the upcoming battle has each the present and former heads of ENCOM be part of the ex-program in no matter comes their method. It simply all is dependent upon how massive successful “Tron: Ares” finally ends up being for that to go forward.
The brand new threequel is a large box-office gamble for Disney, and it might take the opening weekend to find out whether or not a fourth movie will get the inexperienced mild. If it does, we may even see a real-life Flynn member of the family return, alongside along with his Grid-escaping girlfriend. Simply hold your mild cycle trails crossed in order that it takes lower than a decade for that to occur.
