Two New "TRON: Ares" Images Released by Empire Magazine In Its Cover Story on Disney's New Sci-Fi Sequel
Industrial Light & Magic is creating some unique visual effects for the upcoming film.
Yesterday here at Laughing Place, we reported that Empire magazine will be featuring Disney’s upcoming sequel TRON: Ares on its cover for the issue due out on July 3rd, and today the publication released two additional images from the film that will be included in its story.
What’s happening:
- Empire magazine has released two new still images from Disney’s highly anticipated science-fiction sequel TRON: Areas. These photos will be featured in the Empire issue due to hit newsstands on Thursday, July 3rd.
- Disney’s original TRON movie was released in 1982 and starred Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner. Its first sequel TRON: Legacy came out in 2010 and brought Bridges back to The Grid alongside Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde.
- The innovative visual effects for TRON: Ares (starring Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Gillian Anderson, and yes, Jeff Bridges) are being created by Industrial Light & Magic. The new film will be released on Friday, October 10th of this year.
What they’re saying:
- TRON: Ares Director Joachim Rønning: “[We’re approaching the effects in this movie as] the Holy Grail of computer graphics. It elevates the world to the next level. The concept [of the motion-controlled camera movements on The Grid] was that a program is filming a program, so it’s shot by a robot."
- TRON creator Steven Lisberger: “Something comes out, and it’s too avant-garde at the time. And then the real world catches up with it. [Light Cycles have] become a symbol of our riding this technology that is going faster than we ever imagined. We’ve integrated into it, and the speed of it is mind-boggling. And in Ares, it’s a metaphor for the fact that this technology is moving through every part of our reality."
- Star Greta Lee: “The movie touches all of these things [involving artificial intelligence]. So many days on set, we would get the chills, because the ideas that [Lisberger] put in place years ago are not just still relevant, but in our faces. Inescapable."
More TRON: Ares news:
- The TRON: Ares covers for Empire magazine were first revealed yesterday.
- A new trailer for the film was released at the beginning of April.
- At D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event 2024, it was revealed that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross from Nine Inch Nails will be providing the musical score for TRON: Ares.