Steven Lisberger's iconic 1982 movie Tron mostly occurs within the fantastical world inside video games, where software entities, envisioned as characters in glowing costumes, battle on the Grid in deadly challenges. These entities are ruthlessly eliminated (or “derezzed”) in the Combat Zone and crushed by energy barriers in light-cycle conflicts. The sequel director's 2010 sequel Tron: Legacy goes back inside the computer world for additional high-speed races and more conflict on the virtual world.
Joachim Rønning's Legacy sequel Tron: Ares adopts a slightly reduced interactive style. In the film, programs still fight each other for survival on the digital world, but mainly in high-stakes conflicts over secretive information, acting as representatives for their business developers. Defensive entities and hacking tools clash on corporate systems, and in the physical world, large vehicles and speed bikes transferred from the virtual world function as they do in the virtual world.
The combat entity the main character (Jared Leto) is another modern creation: a enhanced fighter who can be infinitely replicated to fight wars in the real world. But would the flesh-and-blood Leto have the practical talents to make it if he was transported into one of the virtual world's contests? During a current press event, the cast and crew of Tron: Ares were inquired what digital environments they would be most apt to make it through. We have their replies — but we've also our own judgments about their capabilities to endure inside simulated environments.
The Star
Part: In Tron: Ares, Lee plays the CEO, the chief executive of the corporation, who is distracted from her leadership tasks as she tries to locate the crucial information thought to be left behind by the original character (Jeff Bridges).
The virtual world Greta Lee believes she could survive in: “My children are very into Minecraft,” she explains. “I would never want them to know this, but [Minecraft] is so fantastic, the realms that they create. I feel I would want to go onto one of the realms that they've made. My little one has designed this one with animals — it's just stocked with feathered friends, because he loves parrots.”
Greta Lee's likelihood of success: Ninety percent. If Lee simply hangs out with her little ones' birds, she's secure. But it's unknown whether she is aware of how to avoid or deal with a dangerous creature.
Evan Peters
Role: the actor plays the rival, the chief of ENCOM rival the business and relative of Ed Dillinger (the star) from the first Tron.
The virtual world the actor feels he could survive in: “I'd absolutely be defeated in the [Disc Arena],” he remarked. “I would go into BioShock.” Clarifying that answer to colleague Gillian Anderson, he states, “It is such a great game, it’s the top. BioShock, Fallout 3 and 4, remarkable post-apocalyptic realms in the franchise, and the game is an hidden, dilapidated nightmare.” Did he even understand the inquiry? Unknown.
Peters’ probability of endurance: In BioShock? 5%, similar to any other normal human's odds in the city. In any of the post-apocalyptic series? Ten percent, only based on his appeal rating.
Gillian Anderson
Role: Gillian Anderson embodies the matriarch, parent to Julian and offspring to the original character. She’s the former chief executive of Dillinger Systems, and a more level-headed director than the character.
The virtual world the actress believes she could endure in: “Pong,” said the actress, despite her evident familiarity with the digital experience Myst and her featured role in the late 1990s choose-your-own-adventure software The X-Files Game. “That's about as sophisticated as I could get. It'd take so much time for the [ball] to approach that I could duck out of the way promptly before it reached to collide with me in the face.”
Gillian Anderson's probability of survival: 50%, depending on the basic nature of Pong and whether getting struck by the object, or not returning the object back to the other player, would be lethal. Furthermore, it’s very dim in Pong — could she fall off the platform to her death? What does the dark abyss of the title do to a individual?
The Filmmaker
Position: Rønning is the helmer of Tron: Ares. He also helmed Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.
The virtual world Rønning feels he could endure in: Tomb Raider. “I am a kid of the ’80s, so I was interested in the home computer and the Atari, but the first title that captivated me was the very first Tomb Raider on PlayStation,” he says. “As a cinema buff — it was the initial experience that was so engaging, it was tactile. I doubt that's the environment I would actually like to be in, but that was my original amazing experience, at least.”
Joachim Rønning's likelihood of success: A low chance. If Rønning was dropped into a adventure world and had to contend with the animals and {booby traps
