Tron's Latest Installment Stars Believe They Could Endure in Various Virtual Worlds (and Our Team Evaluated Their Chances)

The original director's classic 1982 movie Tron mostly occurs within the virtual realm inside electronic games, where digital beings, envisioned as characters in glowing costumes, face off on the Grid in lethal challenges. These entities are ruthlessly destroyed (or “deleted”) in the Battlefield and obliterated by energy barriers in high-speed conflicts. The sequel director's 2010 sequel Tron: Legacy returns inside the digital realm for further high-speed races and further fighting on the digital plane.

The new director's Legacy continuation Tron: Ares takes a marginally reduced video game-y style. In the picture, digital entities still battle each other for survival on the Grid, but mostly in critical conflicts over confidential information, functioning as avatars for their business developers. Defensive entities and infiltration programs confront on ENCOM servers, and in the physical world, large vehicles and digital motorcycles exported from the digital realm operate as they do in the digital environment.

The warrior program the main character (the star) is another modern creation: a advanced warrior who can be endlessly 3D reprinted to engage in battles in the real world. But would the real-life star have the practical skills to make it if he was inserted into one of the virtual world's games? In a current media gathering, actors and filmmakers of Tron: Ares were questioned what games they would be most apt to endure in. We have their replies — but we also offer our own evaluations about their abilities to endure inside simulated environments.

The Star

Character: In Tron: Ares, Greta Lee plays the CEO, the leader of the company, who is diverted from her leadership tasks as she seeks to locate the key data believed to be abandoned by the founder (the star).

The game the actress feels she could survive in: “My kids are really into Minecraft,” she explains. “I wouldn't want them to know this, but [Minecraft] is so cool, the realms that they construct. I believe I would want to go onto one of the worlds that they've made. My little one has constructed this one with creatures — it's just stocked with feathered friends, because he adores parrots.”

The actress's probability of survival: Ninety percent. If Lee simply resides with her kids’ feathered companions, she's secure. But it's unknown whether she knows how to evade or handle a dangerous creature.

The Star

Part: Peters plays the antagonist, the chief of ENCOM rival the organization and descendant of the original character (the actor) from the first Tron.

The game the actor feels he could survive in: “I certainly would definitely lose in the [Disc Arena],” Evan Peters stated. “I'd go into BioShock.” Elaborating on that response to fellow actor the star, he states, “It's really such a excellent digital experience, it’s the top. BioShock, Fallout 3 and 4, incredible ruined realms in the series, and BioShock is an subterranean, dilapidated society.” Was he understand the question? Unknown.

Evan Peters' likelihood of success: In BioShock? A low chance, similar to any other average person's likelihood in the location. In each post-apocalyptic title? Ten percent, purely based on his charisma rating.

The Actress

Role: the actress embodies Elisabeth Dillinger, parent to the character and daughter to Ed. She’s the ex CEO of the corporation, and a more calm director than her son.

The virtual world the actress feels she could endure in: “Pong,” remarked Anderson, despite her evident knowledge with the title Myst and her supporting role in the late 1990s interactive digital disc The X-Files Game. “That's about as complex as I could handle. It would take so long for the [ball] to arrive that I could dodge out of the way promptly before it came to hit me in the body.”

Gillian Anderson's likelihood of endurance: 50%, depending on the abstract essence of the game and whether receiving a blow by the object, or not returning the object back to the opponent, would be lethal. Also, it’s really dim in Pong — could she slip off the arena to her death? What does the empty space of the title do to a individual?

The Filmmaker

Position: Rønning is the helmer of Tron: Ares. He furthermore made Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.

The virtual world the director thinks he could survive in: Tomb Raider. “I am a kid of the ’80s, so I was interested in the home computer and the console, but the first title that captivated me was the very first Tomb Raider on the system,” Rønning states. “As a movie guy — it was the original game that was so engaging, it was physical. I'm not sure that's the title I would actually like to be in, but that was my original incredible experience, at least.”

Joachim Rønning's chances of survival: A low chance. If Rønning was transported into a Lara Croft world and had to face the animals and {booby traps

Caitlin Serrano
Caitlin Serrano

A seasoned business analyst with over a decade of experience in market research and corporate strategy.