More than a year until Tron: Ares hits theaters, Jared Leto seems to be homesick for his digital kingdom on the screen.
While touring Florida with Thirty Seconds to Mars, the actor and musician recently stopped at Disney World to try out the Tron Lightcycle Run ahead of Disney’s premiere on October 10, 2025. Tron: Ares.
“When you’re in Florida,” he captioned a video of the trip, adding, “PS: This ride is pretty rough, has anyone tried it?”
As he and a friend approached the ride, Leto declared, “We gotta do this, man. Holy shit, I feel like I’m home! … I gotta be up front, man.”
After Leto became producer and star of Tron: AreIn 2017, Disney hired Joachim Rønning (Pirates of the Caribbean – Salazar’s Revenge, Maleficent – Mischief Managed) to direct the sequel last year. Although the SAG-AFTRA strike temporarily halted production, filming began in January.
In “Leto” he plays the highly advanced program Ares, who is sent on a dangerous mission from the digital world into the real world. This is humanity’s first encounter with AI beings.
Jeff Bridges, who starred in the original Tron (1982) and the sequel from 2010 Tron: Legacyreprises his role as video game programmer Kevin Flynn. The film also stars Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Hasan Minhaj, Jodie Turner-Smith, Arturo Castro, Cameron Monaghan and Gillian Anderson.
This month, Disney gave a first look at the D23 Expo Tron: Areswith a film score by Trent Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails.
