The New Tron Film Cast Think They Could Survive in Various Virtual Worlds (and We've Rated Their Chances)

The creator's iconic 1982 movie Tron largely takes place within the fantastical realm inside digital games, where programs, portrayed as characters in neon-streaked outfits, compete on the Grid in lethal challenges. The characters are brutally eliminated (or “deleted”) in the Disc Arena and obliterated by energy barriers in high-speed battles. The sequel director's 2010 follow-up Tron: Legacy goes back inside the virtual domain for additional light-cycle action and more fighting on the digital plane.

The filmmaker's Legacy follow-up Tron: Ares takes a somewhat lesser game-like approach. In the movie, virtual characters still battle each other for existence on the digital world, but mainly in critical conflicts over confidential files, acting as representatives for their corporate makers. Security programs and hacking tools engage on ENCOM servers, and in the outside world, Recognizers and digital motorcycles transferred from the virtual world behave as they do in the digital environment.

The warrior program Ares (Jared Leto) is an additional new innovation: a advanced warrior who can be infinitely 3D reprinted to engage in battles in our world. But would the human Leto have the real-world skills to endure if he was inserted into one of the digital arena's contests? In a recent interview session, actors and filmmakers of Tron: Ares were questioned what digital environments they would be most likely to endure in. We have their answers — but we've also our own assessments about their skills to survive inside simulated environments.

Greta Lee

Role: In Tron: Ares, Greta Lee portrays the executive, the CEO of the corporation, who is preoccupied from her executive duties as she tries to retrieve the key data thought to be abandoned by Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges).

The digital environment the actress thinks she could endure in: “My little ones are extremely into Minecraft,” she states. “I'd never want them to discover this, but [Minecraft] is so fantastic, the worlds that they build. I feel I would want to go onto one of the realms that they've made. My little one has designed this one with animals — it's just stocked with feathered friends, because he is fond of parrots.”

Lee’s probability of endurance: 90%. If Lee simply hangs out with her children's feathered companions, she's safe. But it's uncertain whether she knows how to avoid or handle a Creeper.

The Star

Role: the actor embodies Julian Dillinger, the leader of ENCOM rival Dillinger Systems and relative of Ed Dillinger (the actor) from the first Tron.

The game the actor feels he could endure in: “I certainly would certainly be defeated in the [Disc Arena],” he said. “I might go into BioShock.” Explaining that reply to colleague the actress, he states, “It's really such a excellent game, it’s the best. BioShock, Fallout 3 and 4, incredible post-apocalyptic worlds in the franchise, and BioShock is an subterranean, run-down dystopia.” Was he understand the query? Uncertain.

Evan Peters' probability of endurance: In BioShock? A low chance, like any other average person's likelihood in Rapture. In each post-apocalyptic title? A modest chance, purely based on his appeal score.

Gillian Anderson

Part: Gillian Anderson portrays the mother, mother to the character and daughter to Ed. She’s the former chief executive of the corporation, and a more calm director than the character.

The digital environment Gillian Anderson believes she could endure in:Pong,” stated the actress, in spite of her evident knowledge with the title Myst and her featured role in the 1998's interactive CD-ROM The X-Files Game. “That's as complex as I could get. It'd take so much time for the [ball] to arrive that I could move out of the way swiftly before it arrived to strike me in the head.”

Gillian Anderson's chances of survival: 50%, based on the basic nature of the game and whether being hit by the ball, or not hitting the pixel back to the opponent, would be deadly. Furthermore, it’s really dark in Pong — could she tumble from the arena to her demise? What does the empty space of Pong impact a individual?

The Filmmaker

Job: Rønning is the helmer of Tron: Ares. He also helmed Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.

The virtual world Rønning believes he could survive in: Tomb Raider. “I'm a kid of the ’80s, so I was fond of the home computer and the Atari, but the original game that influenced me was the original Tomb Raider on the console,” Rønning states. “As a cinema buff — it was the initial title that was so engaging, it was tactile. I'm not sure that's the game I would truly like to be in, but that was my first incredible experience, at least.”

Joachim Rønning's likelihood of endurance: Twenty percent. If Rønning was transported into a Tomb Raider world and had to contend with the creatures and {booby traps

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