The studio is in early stages of development of a new Tron movie, with Jared Leto, an Oscar-winning actor to star, sources have told The Hollywood Reporter.
No writer has been hired as of now, and no filmmaker is just yet involved. Justin Springer, who co-produced Tron: Legacy and executive produced the Tom Cruise sci-fi, Oblivion, will produce. Leto and producing partner, Emma Ludbrook, will be involved in producing capacity if this project does move forward.
Tron was a 1982 Disney movie set in a world inside a computer program called the Grid. Starring Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner, the movie was not a hit but was influential with special effects.
In 2010, Disney had revisited this world with Tron: Legacy, which starred Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde and brought back Bridges. The movie made $400 million worldwide and was good enough to warrant interest in a follow-up.
But it has been a series of shutdowns and restarts for the sequel and the studio pulled the plug for good in 2015.
But computer programs never die, and they just get upgrades.
Sources say this project is not a sequel and is built out of the source code of the deleted Tron 3 script. Leto will play Ares, who has not appeared onscreen but was a key player in that script.
Leto last portrayed the DC Comics villain the Joker in 2016’s Suicide Squad. He will now appear with Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford in Blade Runner 2049 and may direct Paramount’s crime thriller 77.
