Disney sets Tron Ares Oct 10, 2025 with remasters and park ties

Disney will release its long-awaited third Tron film, Tron Ares, in U.S. theaters on October 10, 2025, and the studio is ramping up the rollout with home-video remasters, theme-park tie-ins, and merchandise as it seeks to revive a franchise that has spent more than a decade in development limbo. The sci-fi action picture, directed by Joachim Rønning and starring Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Hasan Minhaj, Jodie Turner-Smith, Cameron Monaghan, Gillian Anderson and Jeff Bridges, follows a highly sophisticated Program named Ares who is sent from the digital Grid into the real world on a mission that amounts to humankind's first encounter with an A.I. being.

Producer and writer David DiGilio said elements of a 2011 script he worked on survived the movie's protracted evolution. DiGilio described a project that was repeatedly reworked, paused and revived, noting that the film was "this close to filming" in mid-2015 before Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm diverted studio attention and shelved the project. He credited a series of producers and writers with keeping it alive, and said Ares began as a villain he helped create before the character transformed into the title role....