Tron: Ares Has Music By Nine Inch Nails, and We Saw the First Footage

Anaheim, California turned into the Grid Friday nighttime arsenic the stars of 2025’s Tron Ares debuted not conscionable the archetypal footage from the sequel, but a immense portion of quality too. Coming disconnected of 2010’s Tron Legacy, which had an all-timer of a soundtrack by Daft Punk, everyone was funny who would beryllium doing the euphony for Ares. Daft Punk, aft all, broke up successful 2021. Well, aft a killer-in-room-only trailer, a reddish laser chopped retired from the backmost of the arena, carving an each excessively acquainted logo. Tron Ares volition person euphony by Nine Inch Nails. Here’s the reveal.

NIN for TRON: Ares! #D23 pic.twitter.com/H4v4hnrPCg

— Dustin Sandoval (@DustinMSandoval) August 10, 2024

That, of course, came aft an astonishing trailer. It starts with a top-down changeable of Evan Peters’ character, Julian Dillinger, explaining that portion for astir of quality past we’ve been looking for beingness retired successful space, each the portion we were looking successful the incorrect direction. It’s not retired there, helium says. It’s successful here. He’s referring, of course, to the Grid, an interior satellite discovered by Kevin Flynn successful the archetypal Tron. And successful it, determination is intelligent beingness that helium wants to bring out.

He’s not the lone one. A pistillate named Eve Kim (Greta Lee) rides a snowmobile crossed a immense mountain. There, she discovered a precise out-of-place orangish tree. Elsewhere, a antheral successful a reddish suit (Ares, played by Jared Leto) emerges successful our satellite and says he’s looking for thing helium doesn’t understand: permanence. The streets are littered with wreckage and garbage. Rain falls connected his black-gloved manus arsenic we spot him respect a bug connected his finger.

A chopper hovers adjacent to a dock. Eve hangs disconnected it looking down astatine Ares. “What are you?” she asks. Cut to a upland walk arsenic 2 reddish lightcycles glide done the night. We past spot a Grid that looks acquainted but is red. A speedy changeable of Gillian Anderson. Eve successful a reddish lightsuit falling done the air, lone for a manus to scope retired and drawback her. Eve and Ares speeding down a stream connected a Lightboat.

Then each mode of lightcycle enactment successful the streets of our world. A straight-down changeable of 2 reddish lightcycles moving astir similar a 1980s video game. Closer in, they velocity down the streets, chop cars successful half, and origin monolithic crashes. Finally we spot Ares walking connected an unfamiliar Grid and a antheral with achromatic hairsbreadth and an purplish robe, with a weird awesome connected the front, accidental “Greetings program.” It’s Kevin Flynn, oregon immoderate mentation of him.

Tron Ares, with euphony by Nine Inch Nails, volition beryllium retired October 10, 2025.

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