Ares in popular culture

After almost 15 years of development hell, the third Tron movie is finally in production. Star Jared Leto made the news official by dropping the first image of his character, Ares, for the 2025 release called Tron: Ares.Prepping the Sandworm Scenes in Dune: Part TwoThe image is striking and, if you’re a Tron fan, very intriguing. For example, we’ve never seen red on the Grid before. Blue? Yes. Yellow? Yes. But never red. Plus data discs are called that because they’re discs—and the one Ares is holding is a different…

It’s time to go back to the grid. Finally. Jared Leto took to his social media on Thursday to reveal our first look at the third Tron film, Tron: Ares, along with a release window of 2025.Sony's Morbius is a Messy VoidThe image reveals a red-suited character with a triangle-shaped data disc, both radical departures from the previous two films. Plus, while “Tron: Ares” was long the title people were using for the film, it had not yet become official. Now it is. Here’s the image and teaser...So, from this image it seems…

Image: DisneyNow that we’re a few weeks into 2024 and the Hollywood strikes are in the rearview, the upcoming Tron: Ares has just started filming. Are Fans Tired of Marvel and DC? Superhero Fatigue at NYCC 2023Director Joachim Rønning posted on Instagram the film wrapped its first week of production on Friday. The original start date was mid-August 2023, but the aforementioned strikes set things back, much to the filmmaker’s ire. At the time, he called them “extremely frustrating,” not helped by the fact that 150…

Good morning SAG-AFTRA! How are you feeling? Strike-ready? Us too. Besides the news that SAG-AFTRA is very likely to go on strike alongside the WGA as the AMPTP refuses to bargain in good faith, we’ve got updates from Mission: Impossible, a peek at the Godzilla design to be used in Minus One, and a rumor about Black Bolt. Spoilers, to the picket lines!Finding Uhura’s Confidence in Strange New Worlds | io9 InterviewMission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part 2During a recent interview with Variety, Christopher McQuarrie…