EXCLUSIVE: A new installment of Tron is coming back online. The Dish hears that Disney is in early talks to hire Joachim Rönning to direct Jared Leto in Tron: Ares. The film is in the works, looking at an August opening date in Vancouver.
The deals haven’t closed yet, but it will mark the fourth collaboration between Disney and the Norwegian director, who helmed Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. He prepared for the studio The Young Woman and the Sea, starring Daisy Ridley, about the daring journey of Gertrude Ederle, a teenager from New York who became the first woman to swim the English Channel. Jeff Nathanson is writing and Jerry Bruckheimer is producing with him.
We now move on to Disney’s sci-fi franchise, which began with the 1982 film starring Jeff Bridges and set in a computer program called the Grid, where a computer hacker is kidnapped and forced to participate in gladiatorial games. The former was little more than a cult favorite, although its special effects were considered game-changers at the time. This aftermath that swelled around the film in the years that followed as it aired on cable only helped grow its popularity, to the point where Disney decided to move forward with a sequel, Tron: Legacy, in 2010, with Bridges once again in his role and Gareth Hedlund and Olivia Wilde join the franchise. That movie grossed $400 million worldwide, and Disney has been trying to figure out how to continue the franchise ever since.
The studio became closer in 2017 with Leto. It will now be in the hands of Rönning, who made an early foray into Hollywood as a director alongside Espen Sandberg on Kon-Tiki, the 2013 film that was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and chronicled the epic 4,300-mile crossing of the Tor Heyerda Pacific Ocean on a balsa wood raft in 1947. Young Woman and the Sea is not yet included, but was subjected to serious trials.
Tron: Ares is written by Jesse Wiggott and is considered a sequel to Tron: Legacy, directed by Top Gun: Maverick’s Joe Kosinski.
Sean Bailey and Sam Dickerman are the performers.
Justin Springer (Tron: Legacy), Leto, Jeffrey Silver and Leto’s Paradox partner Emma Ludbrook are producing.
Leto, who next stars in Disney’s Haunted Mansion, is repped by WME and attorney Barry Hirsch; Ronning is UTA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and attorney Warren Dern.
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