“TR3N” was an early title tossed around back in the early 2010s when the film was first in development. However, after the production team and angle changed, years passed without much word on the project. For the last year or so, “Tron: Ares” has been the title — one pulled from Jared Leto’s own mysterious character.
The official word from Disney has also gone back and forth on whether the film is an official sequel to the “Legacy” storyline or a reboot. If the studio is going back to the “TR3N” name, that would seem to connect it more directly to the preceding films. Or, alternatively, both could be true. Disney could be deferring to a title executives believe to be catchier, while the story may still be heading for reboot territory.
What we know of the cast so far only supports the reboot. Idea. So far, Evan Peters, Jodie Turner-Smith, Greta Lee, Cameron Monaghan, Gillian Anderson, and Sarah Desjardins have been cast alongside Leto, and none of these actors have appeared in either of the previous “Tron” movies. Series mainstays like Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner — the actor behind Tron himself — don’t appear to be involved. A new narrative direction doesn’t necessarily mean that the entire world is being rebooted, but it seems safe to say that whatever the final title ends up being, the next film will be relatively independent of what’s come before.
