Gillian Anderson Confirmed For 'Tron: Ares' As Production Begins
Gillian Anderson Confirmed For 'Tron: Ares' As Production Begins
I want to believe this movie can be good despite Jared Leto’s involvement
Perhaps aside from Superman: Legacy, Tron: Ares, the long-awaited third installment of Disney’s Tron series, was busiest in securing its cast and getting said news out there before the actors began striking in mid-July. However it was just as likely because they were planning to start filming in August. Now, with the holidays over, production can finally begin in Vancouver, and that means previously-unannounced (to the public) cast showing up to set, and that includes beloved The X-Files and Sex Education star Gillian Anderson.
Tron: Ares stars Jared Leto as Ares, the manifestation of a newly-sentient program that crosses over into the human world that is completely unprepared. It is directed by Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil director Joachim Rønning, who marked production’s start by sharing a rather Trenny crew chair, and written by Jesse Wigutow and Jack Thorne. Leto produces with Emma Ludbrook, and Jeffrey Springer, while Russell Allen is executive producer. Ares is frankly the only character with any known details, as not only are Anderson’s character details unknown, but none of the other non-Leto cast’s characters, not Evan Peters, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, Cameron Monaghan nor Sarah Desjardins are known either.
Anderson not only broke out as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully on Fox’s The X-Files, but has starred on Hannibal, Sex Education, as Margaret Thatcher in season 4 of The Crown, and Eleanor Roosevelt in Showtime’s The First Lady. Her film roles include the English dubs of Princess Mononoke and From Up on Poppy Hill, The Last King of Scotland and The Spy Who Dumped Me. Coming up, she stars with Jason Isaacs in a feature adaptation of Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir The Salt Path and just wrapped on the film Scoop, based on the BBC Newsnight bombshell 2019 interview with Prince Andrew about his Jeffrey Epstein associations.
Source: Deadline