By Filming on the third “TRON” film, “TRON: Ares,” wrapped back in May and filmmaker Joachim Rønning is still very much in the midst of editing and post-production on the film.
Shot in Vancouver throughout the first half of the year, the story follows a highly sophisticated program names Ares (Jared Leto) who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I. beings.
Jodie Turner-Smith, Greta Lee, Gillian Anderson, Evan Peters, Cameron Monaghan, and Sarah Desjardins co-star in the film which has Nine Inch Nails composing the score and showed off its first footage at D23 Brazil the other week.
Speaking with Collider recently, Rønning says he still has months to go on finishing the film as there’s a lot of VFX shots that need to be done with Industrial Light & Magic working on the shots:
“A movie like this, it’s like 2,000 VFX shots, so every other day, I sit in the effects meetings. I go through about 50 shots every other day that come in from ILM, which is also an amazing journey. It’s a long journey.”
Rønning also indicates they’ve pretty much got everything they needed from the main shoot so even if there is additional filming, it should be fairly minimal:
“We have an A–Z movie, and it’s just now tightening it, maybe doing some additional photography to land certain things here and there. Again, the luxury of filmmaking on this level is having the time and the resources to keep tweaking it, keep working, and keep making it better. So, we’re going to be doing that until summer. I’m not even halfway through.”
Rønning adds that a project like this, which he calls a “big emotional action piece,” is “very much a collaboration with the producers, with the studio” and so he wants “everything to work and to be great”. That means “you have to check your ego a little bit at the door”.
“TRON: Ares” is set to hit cinemas on October 10th 2025.
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