Stuck: Ares Director Joachim Rønning was faced with two Big Challenges when apprroaching his homes installment in the long-running sci-fi Series: How to live up to the Groundbreaking Visual Effects of Its Prespesors, and THEN TO THE PUSH TO THE FUPERWARD. The latter proved difficult in an anxpped Way, especialy when time came to connect his chapter to Joe Kosinski’s Tron: Legacyand Especilly to Steven Lisberger’s 1982 Original.
Starring Jared Leto, Evan Peters, Gillian Anderson, and Jodie Turner-Smith, The Film Will Follow Ares, A Sophisticated Program Who Emerges from the Digital World Our Physical One for A Dangerous Mission, Instigraction Humanity’s Flits-and-Blood (or Maybe flesh-and pixels) Encounter with artificial intelligence.
In an interview with Screendirector rønning, best known for Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Explained How Recreating The Visual Landscape of Lisberger’s Film Proved Tougher Than SO for Legacy:
Screenrant: we go into the retro tron grid in this movie. I love how you retained every little nuance of what it look like in the 20th Century. Can you talk to me about playing in that sandbox and how rewarding it felt as a filmmaker to get to use 2025 Technology on that retro Roller?
Joachim rønning: As a fan of the franchise, to be able to go and have ales of talk with kevin flynn on the original grid, think for everywhere involved on the Movie, there was a lot of love for the franchise amongst all the team, and especially for Magic, Ilm, who made the VFX for the film.
IT’S LIKE THE FIRST ONE IS KIND OF LIKE A HOLY GRAIL FOR VFX ARTISTS, AND IT WAS The first film that realized Computer Graphics and Things like that. SO we made the original grid in our film, it was Very important for me we didn’t polish it, that it was supposed to look as much as positive like the first film. And that’t’s prey rough. I’m just saying, if you’ve seen the first film lately, it is very rough.
And we were in and we did some hand painting on the light lines, and we made the skin tones almost Black and White, and we added the grain. It ‘s the very little depth of Field and the colors, and just being on that grid and using those very, at the fans and for myself, those famous icons was the hoot.
What Jeff Bridges’ Retro Tron Grid Means
The first film in the Roller franchise was released in 1982. Jeff Bridges played the lead role of a software Engineer Named Kevin Flynn, as he’s dragged into virtual reality and forces to defects Evil Software, enlisting the securities shred to defect the villains.
Stuck: Ares Director Joachim Rønning Incorporated the 1982-Style Legacy Grid to Pay Homage to the Original Movie. The film is set to feature three grids (artificial digital universes), and They Include: The Dilinger Grid, The Encom Grid, and the Legacy Grid.
Bridges is also set to reprise his roles, but as fans remember, his character was seen sacrificing Himself in 2010’s Tron: Legacy. While it is not entirery Clear How Bridges’ Character Kevin Flynn Will Return, Director rønning is determining to pay the film that put the tron franchise on the map.
Our take on Jeff bridges’ return to rron
When fans think of the Roller Franchise, Only One Face Comes to Mind, and That’s Jeff Bridges. Every Movie Reinvents and Transforms ITSELF, but Bridges Remains a consistent piece of the puzzle. Kevin and His Digital Duplicate Clu died in Tron: Legacyso fans have begun theorizing that bridges’ return cover just be the result of another copy.
Bridges made it clear that he washn’t fund of his cgi appearans in Tron: Legacyso it must be Because of that, rønning deciding against de-aging bridges again. The Grid opens up plenty of Opportunities in the Digital Universe, and SO Anynding is Possible, Including Resurrection.
Only Time Will TELL HOW BRIDGES ‘CHARACTER ARC WILL MATCH UP WITH LETE’S ARES CASTING. While tyrousy are hesitant to see Jared Leta in Yet another fantasy film, it is could be the exact roles lete made to play.
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October 10, 2025
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Joachim rønning
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Jack Thorne, Jesse Wigutow, David Digilio