Tron: Ares Actors Believe They Could Make It in Select Virtual Worlds (and We Evaluated Their Odds)

The creator's iconic 1982 picture Tron mostly takes place within the imaginary world inside electronic games, where programs, envisioned as human-like figures in neon-streaked attire, battle on the Grid in dangerous challenges. Programs are brutally destroyed (or “erased”) in the Combat Zone and smashed by jetwalls in digital vehicle conflicts. Joseph Kosinski's 2010 sequel Tron: Legacy returns inside the computer world for further high-speed races and more combat on the virtual world.

The new director's Legacy sequel Tron: Ares takes a somewhat lesser video game-y approach. In the picture, digital entities still battle each other for survival on the digital world, but mostly in high-stakes battles over secretive files, functioning as avatars for their corporate makers. Defensive entities and intrusion agents clash on digital networks, and in the real world, Recognizers and speed bikes transferred from the digital realm behave as they do in the simulated universe.

The soldier software the protagonist (the actor) is another recent development: a super-soldier who can be endlessly replicated to participate in conflicts in the physical realm. But would the flesh-and-blood actor have the practical talents to survive if he was transported into one of the Grid’s contests? At a latest press event, actors and filmmakers of Tron: Ares were inquired what digital environments they would be most likely to endure in. We have their answers — but we have our own judgments about their skills to endure inside digital realms.

The Actress

Role: In Tron: Ares, Lee embodies the CEO, the leader of the company, who is preoccupied from her leadership tasks as she attempts to locate the key data believed to be left behind by Kevin Flynn (the star).

The game Greta Lee thinks she could make it through: “My children are really into Minecraft,” she explains. “I would never want them to know this, but [Minecraft] is so cool, the realms that they create. I feel I would want to explore one of the realms that they've created. My younger child has constructed this one with creatures — it's just filled with birds, because he adores parrots.”

Greta Lee's probability of success: 90%. If Greta Lee simply stays with her kids’ feathered companions, she's safe. But it's uncertain whether she is aware of how to evade or deal with a hostile mob.

Evan Peters

Role: Evan Peters embodies Julian Dillinger, the chief of opposing corporation the business and grandson of Ed Dillinger (the actor) from the original Tron.

The digital environment Peters believes he could make it through: “I certainly would absolutely be defeated in the [Disc Arena],” Peters remarked. “I might go into BioShock.” Clarifying that reply to colleague the actress, he states, “It is such a good game, it’s the best. BioShock, Fallout 3 and 4, remarkable post-apocalyptic worlds in the franchise, and BioShock is an hidden, decrepit nightmare.” Did he even comprehend the question? Uncertain.

Peters’ probability of survival: In BioShock? Five percent, comparable to any other regular individual's likelihood in the location. In each Fallout title? Ten percent, purely based on his appeal rating.

The Star

Part: Gillian Anderson plays the mother, guardian to Julian and offspring to the original character. She’s the ex CEO of the company, and a more rational leader than her son.

The virtual world the actress feels she could survive in: “Pong,” said the actress, in spite of her evident experience with the digital experience Myst and her co-starring role in the late 1990s interactive CD-ROM The X-Files Game. “That's about as complex as I could handle. It might take so a while for the [ball] to come that I could duck out of the way swiftly before it arrived to hit me in the body.”

The actress's likelihood of survival: An even chance, based on the abstract essence of the title and whether being hit by the ball, or not hitting the ball back to the other player, would be fatal. Also, it’s very gloomy in Pong — could she tumble from the arena to her end? What does the empty space of the game do to a person?

Joachim Rønning

Job: 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 digital environment Joachim Rønning feels he could make it through: Tomb Raider. “I was a youngster of the ’80s, so I was into the Commodore 64 and the Atari, but the initial game that influenced me was the original Tomb Raider on the console,” he says. “Being a movie guy — it was the original experience that was so engaging, it was interactive. I'm uncertain that's the title I would really want to be in, but that was my initial amazing journey, at least.”

Rønning’s probability of survival: Twenty percent. If Joachim Rønning was transported into a Lara Croft title and had to contend with the wildlife and {booby traps