Garrett Hedlund “can’t wait to observe” Tron: Ares.
The 41-year-old actor portrayed Sam Flynn in 2010’s Tron: Legacy, and whereas he gained’t be showing within the sequel, Hedlund might be “the primary one within the door” to see Tron: Ares.
Talking with Collider, he stated: “Properly, first, I am unable to wait to observe what they did with this, what they did with Ares. I am so happy with everyone concerned.
“The producers on which might be the identical producers that introduced Legacy to life, and so they simply labored their tail off on this one.
“And so, I will be the primary one within the door to go see [the movie], and the followers are very enthusiastic about it as effectively, and that is a beautiful factor. There’s a whole lot of love for [Tron] on the market.”
In addition to Hedlund’s Sam Flynn, Cillian Murphy’s Edward Dillinger Jr. can also be absent from Tron: Ares, although producer Justin Spring defined the upcoming sci-fi film was targeted on the story and increasing the world of Tron, quite than cameos.
He stated: “This stuff should not solely inventive selections; generally actors do not wish to be in it anymore.
“There are alternative ways of taking a look at that, however I believe the story fell into a spot the place we felt that we did not want the outdated characters to be entrance and centre.
“We needed to take this into a brand new route whereas, on the identical time, honoring the universe that we’re in.”
In Tron: Ares – which was helmed by Pirates of the Caribbean: Lifeless Males Inform No Tales director Joachim Ronning – a hyper-intelligent digital program named Ares (Jared Leto) is dispatched from the Grid into the human world on a mission with unknown penalties, sparking humanity’s first actual contact with sentient AI.
The movie – which is able to hit cineamas on October 10, 2025 – sees the return of Jeff Bridges’s online game designer Kevin Flynn, and introduces Greta Lee as Eve Kim, Evan Peters as Julian Dillinger and Gillian Anderson as Elisabeth Dillinger.
Lately, Bridges, 75, stated he “didn’t wish to offend” methodology actor Leto, 53, by calling him by his actual title as an alternative of addressing him as Ares on the set of Tron: Ares.
Talking on a panel at San Diego Comedian-Con, The Large Lebowski star stated of Leto: “He’s a type of guys. Everybody has totally different strategies and modes man.
“I didn’t wish to offend him as a thespo. However I believed, ‘I needed to have a sure intimacy with you. I do know your title is Ares. Can I simply name you Air?’ He stated, ‘Yeah man! You may name me no matter you need!’ We had a good time.”
Leto gushed about his co-star and stated he “couldn’t cease smiling” as he labored with Bridges.
He stated: “I simply blurted out, ‘minimize!’ Everybody was stunned, as a result of I don’t typically try this. The primary AD comes over and stated, ‘Is the whole lot OK? What’s mistaken?’ And I stated, ‘You already know, I simply can’t cease smiling, as a result of I’m working with my man.’”
