Tron: Ares star Cameron Monaghan believes the upcoming Disney movie will break new ground visually.
“I think this one, in a very similar way, is going to really push forward what can be done, from a visual perspective,” Monaghan said to Collider during Calgary Expo. “I would sometimes even come in on days I wasn’t working because that set was really amazing. A lot of the practical sets were pretty phenomenal, and I would love to go look at those as well.”
As a lifelong fan of Tron, Monaghan recalled how the virtual reality world of the classic 1982 sci-fi adventure movie and its 2010 sequel Tron: Legacy left a huge impression on him in his early years.
“I think I first saw the first Tron on a plane when I was younger,” Monaghan recalled. “It was an international flight. I remember watching the original, and I thought it was from the ’90s or something because it was pretty amazing how a movie from that era could look that amazing, and utilizing computers the way they did.
“Then I went to the Tron: Legacy premiere when I was 16 years old and had just done my first movie for Disney at the time. So, that was really cool getting to go to the El Capitan Theater in LA and seeing that on a big screen. And that’s a movie that, I think, has now grown a cult fandom, in a similar way that the original Tron did as well, where people thought it was very technologically cool but it’s continued to grow. Tron Legacy, I just saw projected in 35MM at the New Beverly last year, and it really holds up, and has that amazing soundtrack by Daft Punk. So I like that those movies have a number of years of separation between them. They don’t come out very often, and every time they do, they show a new era of technology and filmmaking.”
What is Tron: Ares about?
As the third installment of the Tron franchise, Tron: Ares stars Jared Leto in the titular role of Ares, a program Ares on a journey from the digital world to the human world. The threequel co-stars Jodie Turner-Smith, Evan Peters, Cameron Monaghan, Arturo Castro, Gillian Anderson, and Sarah Desjardins. Joachim Rønning (Maleficent) directs Tron: Ares from a script by Jesse Wigutow and Jack Thorne. Leto serves as producer alongside Emma Ludbrook and Jeffrey Springer. Russell Allen serves as executive producer.
Tron: Ares is scheduled for release on October 10, 2025.
