Ares’ Simply Introduced the Grid Again to San Diego Comedian-Con

Within the pantheon of cool Corridor H moments at San Diego Comedian-Con, the reveal that Disney was returning to the world of Tron is correct close to the highest. Sneaking right into a 2008 panel about Race to Witch Mountain, Disney randomly confirmed proof-of-concept footage saying that Tron 2, later called Tron Legacy, can be coming in just a few years, and the place went mad. Since that second, Tron and Comedian-Con have shared a enjoyable historical past, with Legacy’s crew even recording audio for the movie in Corridor H just a few years later.

All of which is to say, when the third Tron movie, Tron: Ares, was announced for Comic-Con, it had quite a bit to dwell as much as. That’s particularly the case contemplating the studio dropped a brand-new trailer days earlier than the conference. So what was in retailer for the largest room in popular culture?

Properly, a lot of forged to start out. That included stars Jared Leto, Jeff Bridges, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Hasan Minhaj, Jodie Turner-Smith, Arturo Castro, Cameron Monaghan, and Gillian Anderson. Plenty of lights, as crimson lasers crisscrossed the whole thing of Corridor H for lengthy sections of the. And many loud 9 Inch Nails music, as they’re scoring the movie. The panel was a visible delight, centered on two action-packed clips from the movie itself.

The primary was a lightcycle chase in the true world. Dillinger (Peters) summons Ares (Leto) and Athena (Turner-Smith) from the Grid to seize Eve (Greta Lee). They’ll solely exist in our world for half-hour earlier than dying (or de-ressing, in Tron communicate), so that they must be fast. Which they’re. Eve is simply minding her enterprise driving round when Ares and Athena bolt via some huge mountain roads towards town. By some means, tapping into town’s cameras and stuff, they can find Eve with out even seeing her. Finally, they catch up, and he or she has to do what she will to flee.

Eve is a human, although, so she could be a little extra crafty than the packages. She drives right into a round parking storage, hides, and when Athena slowly drives by, she sends her motorbike at her, smashing her over a ledge. Nonetheless, when she appears down, Athena is gone. She’s already up and operating again across the storage. With no bike or automobile, Eve appears round and sees… the lightcycle. She someway begins it up, sits down, and it engulfs her simply in time to flee earlier than Athena reaches her. The clip ended together with her dashing off.

The second clip noticed Eve go onto the Grid itself. She’s floating in some sort of water till Ares grabs her out. He unveils a lightcycle jetski and takes off on a digital river. Eve places her hand in it and realizes it’s all simply bytes, not actual water, regardless that it acts prefer it. Athena sends drones after the pair as we understand Ares has gone towards his programming and towards Dillinger, and is now serving to Eve. It’s an epic chase each under the digital water and above it, towards the drones, till Eve lastly agrees to assist Ares. The 2 make it to the transport portal, which ought to ship them to the true world, and the scene cuts out.

I’ve to say, whereas each of those scenes seemed wonderful and every was set to completely unbelievable new music by 9 Inch Nails, one thing was simply… off about them. There was only a sure power that was lacking regardless that it seemed and sounded unbelievable. Perhaps it was as a result of we didn’t have any context? As a result of as completely satisfied as everybody on the panels appeared to be about being at Comedian-Con, none of them stated something in regards to the film itself. There was some chatter within the clips about some code everyone seems to be combating over? What’s that about? What position does Jeff Bridges play? The place’s Sam Flynn and Quorra? Who even is Eve, and what’s Dillinger as much as? Nothing.

Even so, with only some months left till the October 10 launch of Tron: Ares, we’re nonetheless able to get again to the Grid. What about you?

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