Tron: Ares

05 Apr 2025

Jared Leto’s ‘Tron: Ares’ Character Comes to Life in Thrilling First Teaser: Watch the Trailer

Tron is back.

On Saturday (April 5), Disney unveiled the first trailer for Tron: Ares, the third installment in the Tron franchise, following the original 1982 film and its 2010 sequel Tron: Legacy.

The new trailer offers a glimpse of a dark, brooding landscape where reality and the virtual world collide. The minute-and-a-half-long clip opens with a high-speed chase between the police and programs riding futuristic motorcycles. From there, it delivers a visual feast of laser-filled action and intense, electrifying sound effects, all set to a pulsating soundtrack. Midway through, Jeff Bridges — who reprises his role as Kevin Flynn from the original film — can be heard saying, “Ready? ‘Cause there’s no going back,” as Jared Leto‘s Ares character digitally comes to life.

Featuring original music by Nine Inch Nails, Tron: Ares also stars Evan Peters, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, Cameron Monaghan, Sarah Desjardins, Hasan Minhaj, Arturo Castro and Gillian Anderson. The upcoming sci-fi film is set to hit theaters on Oct. 10.

Directed by Joachim Rønning, the movie serves as the sequel to Tron: Legacy, which featured a score by Daft Punk that reached No. 4 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.

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It was confirmed at Disney’s D23 in 2024 that NIN would be composing the score for Tron: Ares, with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross making the announcement during a teaser for the film. The duo has collaborated on numerous film and television scores over the years, including Challengers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Soul and The Social Network. Tron: Ares marks the first time the Oscar-winning pair’s film music will be credited under the Nine Inch Nails name.

Watch the first trailer for Tron: Ares below.

10 Aug 2024

Nine Inch Nails Set to Score Disney’s Upcoming ‘Tron: Ares’ Film

Nine Inch Nails is composing the score for the upcoming film Tron: Ares. The electronic band’s Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross made the announcement during a teaser of the sci-fi sequel at Disney’s D23 in Anaheim, Calif., on Friday (Aug. 9).

Reznor and Ross have collaborated on numerous film and television scores over the years, including Challengers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Soul and The Social Network. But Tron: Ares marks the first time the Oscar-winning duo’s film music will be credited as Nine Inch Nails.

Tron: Ares stars Jared Leto, Evan Peters, Jeff Bridges, Greta Lee and Jodie Turner-Smith. The Joachim Ronning-film is the sequel to 2010’s Tron: Legacy, which was scored by Daft Punk, whose soundtrack reached No. 4 on the Billboard 200 chart.

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Following some futuristic footage of Tron: Ares and an onstage appearance by cast members, a red laser revealed the iconic NIN logo indicating that the electronic band would be providing the score. Reznor and Ross then briefly made an onstage appearance for fans at D23. Watch the announcement here.

Tron: Ares, the third in the Tron franchise, is scheduled to hit theaters on Oct. 10, 2025. It builds on the original Tron movie, featuring Bridges, which was released in 1982.

“Technology and AI is omnipresent in our of our lives,” Bridges said of the forthcoming film. “What a perfect time to revisit this world. Or, have this world visit us, because that’s what happens in this movie.”

The Tron: Ares score will feature new songs by Nine Inch Nails as well as the score, according to Rolling Stone. NIN’s last album, Ghost VI: Locusts, arrived in 2020. In addition to Tron: Ares, Reznor and Ross are scoring Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming film Queer and the Scott Derrickson sci-fi thriller The Gorge, starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller.