{"id":93519,"date":"2025-07-26T07:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T07:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/93519\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T07:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T07:33:09","slug":"lightcycles-nine-inch-nails-music-at-comic-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/93519\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightcycles, Nine Inch Nails Music at Comic-Con"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cTron: Ares<\/a>\u201d blew the roof off of San Diego Comic-Con<\/a> at its panel on Friday evening, with an eye-popping, ear-blasting laser-light show set to the pulsing original score by Nine Inch Nails. The panel also included two extended clips from the film, and ended with a NIN music video of the original song \u201cAs Alive as You Need Me to Be.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe movie is third film in one of the more improbable movie franchises in modern Hollywood, which Disney tacitly acknowledged with how it opened its panel, with an extended trailer that covered the events of the previous two films. The first, 1982\u2019s \u201cTron,\u201d stars Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn, a computer programmer who gets sucked into the computer mainframe know as the Grid. The movie is best known for its groundbreaking use of computer generated imagery for its visual effects, to capture a purely digital world. But \u201cTron\u201d was far from a blockbuster, grossing roughly $50 million worldwide (unadjusted). The sequel, \u201cTron: Legacy,\u201d debuted 28 years later, starring Bridges in dual roles as Flynn as an older man and his de-aged digital doppelg\u00e4nger; it grossed a respectable $410 million globally.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTron: Ares\u201d arrives 15 years after \u201cLegacy,\u201d and takes the action outside of the virtual world for the first time, with Jared Leto\u2019s title character playing a digital soldier brought into the real world by Evan Peters\u2019 tech bro character, Julian Dillinger (the namesake of the villain from the 1982 film). Bridges is reprising his role as Flynn, but any more details about his character were left for another day.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first clip from the film debuted the first lightcycle chase in the movie, in which Dillinger appears to digitally \u201cprint\u201d Ares and his compatriot Athena (Jodie Turner-Smith), as well as their lightcycles. He then says they have only 30 minutes to find Eve Kim (Greta Lee), who\u2019s left Dillinger\u2019s company, Encom, with a memory stick containing important code. Ares uses traffic cameras to find Eve on her motorcycle; they almost capture her, slicing a police car in half in the process with the blade of light that streaks from behind the lightcycles. But Eve ultimately eludes them, and winds up taking out Athena and commandeering her lightcycle.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the second clip, Eve has entered the Grid, and Ares rescues her from an ocean of digital water. He materializes a lightboat and races them both to a portal into the real world, as Athena sends three drones to pursue them. Eve can hardly believe the sleek, glass-like beauty of the world that surrounds her, and agrees to help find the code to help Ares.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the panel itself, Leto \u2014 who also produced the film, and has been attached to it since 2017 \u2014 pronounced himself \u201can official \u2018Tron\u2019 superfan\u201d and said \u201cif I wasn\u2019t on the stage, I would be in the audience.\u201d He said that when he filmed his first scene with Bridges, he blurted out \u201ccut\u201d mid-take.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEveryone was surprised, because I don\u2019t often do that,\u201d Leto said. \u201cThe first AD comes over and said, \u2018Is everything okay? What\u2019s wrong?\u2019 And I said, \u2018I just can\u2019t stop smiling, because I\u2019m working with this guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFor his part, Bridges expressed delight at the fact that he\u2019s still making \u201cTron\u201d movies: \u201c\u201982? 43 years ago? Come on, man!\u201d But he said he started work on the film with a bit of apprehension.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI remember the first day of wondering how it was going to be,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cI heard Jared only wants to be called by his character. Everybody\u2019s got different methods and modes. It\u2019s a tough part, man, to play a program!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tModerated by filmmaker and Comic-Con mainstay Kevin Smith, the panel maintained that lighthearted atmosphere throughout, which kept the conversation from going anywhere near the June Air Mail story<\/a> in which nine women alleged that Leto engaged in misconduct with them during the 2000s. (Leto has denied any wrongdoing.)<\/p>\n

\n\tLee, marveling at the experience of her first Comic-Con, said she told her agents, \u201cFind me something where I can ride a lightcycle.\u201d Co-stars Arturo Castro and Hasan Minhaj, who play Encom executives, joked about the possible parallels between their film\u2019s fictional company and the studio that made the movie.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was like walking into Disneyland every day,\u201d Castro said of the sets. \u201cAnd I\u2019m not just saying that because they signed my checks, because they have my family.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLet this film bring as much shareholder value to the company as possible this quarter,\u201d added Minhaj. \u201cReally what this is about is Encom and its earnings, which is a metaphor for the Walt Disney Corporation, one of the best corporations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTron: Ares\u201d will debut in theaters on Oct. 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTron: Ares\u201d blew the roof off of San Diego Comic-Con at its panel on Friday evening, with an…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":93520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15661,171,7303,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-93519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-comic-con","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-tron-ares","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}