Tron: Ares
Director: Joachim Rønning
Cast: Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Jodie Turner-Smith, Hasan Minhaj, Arturo Castro, Gillian Anderson, Jeff Bridges
If the cult techno sci-fi films Tron (1982) and Tron: Legacy (2010) are about humans going into “the grid” of the digital world, then the newest installment in this franchise, Tron: Ares, is about the digital world invading our own.
Allegorically, this feels right for our particular moment, the film depicting AI super soldiers wreaking a path of destruction through human cities, but despite the ethical questions the film presents, it still can’t shake the franchise's enduring techno-optimism (or inevitability), even as it encourages getting “offline.”
This iteration of Tron is helmed by Norwegian director Joachim Rønning, with a screenplay by
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