Disney's 'Tron: Ares' Adds Evan Peters, Greta Lee, and Jodie Turner-Smith

The third Tron movie has finally been gaining traction after 7 years in its current iteration

The cast for the long-awaited third installment of Disney’s Tron franchise is growing fast. Tron: Ares has cast Evan Peters, Greta Lee, and Jodie Turner-Smith in major roles. Joachim Ronning is directing the film that if no SAG strike happens, is aiming to begin shooting August in Vancouver with Jared Leto starring.

It hasn’t been figured out who Peters would play, but it’s been narrowed down to a soldier within the computer world and an awkward gamer in the human world that are both in the script. Lee plays as a video game programmer and tech company CEO who must on the run in order to protect her world-changing technology. The specifics of Turner-Smith’s role have yet to be revealed. They join Leto, who has been attached to the project since 2016 and movement finally started in January. He’s playing the titular Ares, the manifestation of a newly-sentient program that crosses over into the human world that is completely unprepared.

In the long development of a third Tron film, the plan to have actors from the previous films return as their characters, such as Bruce Boxleitner, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, and Cillian Murphy was lost and abandoned in favor of a new direction. Due to Ares’s actions as written by Jesse Wigutow and Jack Thorne, it seems it will take place more in the real world than the previous films. The series, which also previously starred Jeff Bridges, saw its first two installments released in 1982 and 2010, has never been all that financially successful but its fanbase persists as it pioneered several visual effects.

Peters is best known for playing Quicksilver in the X-Men movies (and subsequently Ralph Bohner in WandaVision) and his work with Ryan Murphy on American Horror Story and Netflix’s Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. Lee starred as Nadia’s best friend Maxine in the series Russian Doll, and voiced Miguel O’Hara’s assistant Lyla in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’s post-credits scene and returned for Across. She seems to be gaining wider recognition as Nora in the film Past Lives. Turner-Smith broke out on the TNT series The Last Ship and appeared in Queen & Slim and Murder Mystery 2. Coming up, she’s got a main role in the Star Wars series The Acolyte, premiering next year.

Sources: Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline