The New Tron Film Stars Think They Could Make It in Various Virtual Worlds (and Our Team Assessed Their Chances)

The creator's iconic 1982 film Tron largely takes place within the fantastical realm inside electronic games, where software entities, envisioned as characters in glowing outfits, face off on the virtual landscape in dangerous contests. The characters are ruthlessly destroyed (or “deleted”) in the Disc Arena and crushed by force fields in digital vehicle conflicts. The filmmaker's 2010 sequel Tron: Legacy returns inside the virtual domain for further light-cycle action and further conflict on the digital plane.

Joachim Rønning's Legacy continuation Tron: Ares adopts a marginally reduced video game-y approach. In the film, digital entities still fight each other for survival on the Grid, but mostly in critical struggles over confidential data, functioning as representatives for their company makers. Defensive entities and infiltration programs confront on ENCOM servers, and in the physical world, Recognizers and digital motorcycles brought from the Grid function as they do in the digital environment.

The combat entity the main character (the star) is a further new innovation: a enhanced fighter who can be repeatedly manufactured to participate in conflicts in the real world. But would the flesh-and-blood actor have the real-world skills to make it if he was transported into one of the Grid’s contests? At a recent media gathering, the cast and crew of Tron: Ares were inquired what games they would be most inclined to survive in. Below are their replies — but we have our own assessments about their skills to survive inside simulated environments.

The Actress

Character: In Tron: Ares, Greta Lee portrays the executive, the leader of the corporation, who is diverted from her leadership tasks as she seeks to locate the “permanence code” thought to be remaining by the founder (the actor).

The virtual world Lee thinks she could endure in: “My kids are really into Minecraft,” she says. “I would never want them to discover this, but [Minecraft] is so amazing, the realms that they construct. I believe I would prefer to enter one of the worlds that they've created. My youngest has constructed this one with beasts — it's just stocked with parrots, because he adores parrots.”

Greta Lee's probability of survival: Ninety percent. If she simply hangs out with her children's feathered companions, she's all good. But it's unknown whether she understands how to evade or handle a dangerous creature.

The Actor

Role: Peters embodies the antagonist, the leader of competing company Dillinger Systems and relative of the original character (the star) from the initial Tron.

The digital environment Evan Peters thinks he could endure in: “I certainly would absolutely fail in the [Disc Arena],” Peters stated. “I would go into BioShock.” Explaining that response to fellow actor the star, he says, “It is such a good digital experience, it’s the top. BioShock, Fallout 3 and 4, amazing post-apocalyptic worlds in Fallout, and BioShock is an underground, run-down dystopia.” Was he understand the query? Unknown.

Evan Peters' probability of endurance: In BioShock? 5%, comparable to any other regular individual's odds in the location. In any of the post-apocalyptic series? A modest chance, solely based on his appeal score.

Gillian Anderson

Character: Anderson portrays the matriarch, guardian to the son and daughter to the original character. She’s the previous chief executive of the corporation, and a more calm leader than Julian.

The game Gillian Anderson feels she could survive in: “Pong,” remarked Anderson, regardless of her apparent experience with the digital experience Myst and her featured appearance in the 1998 choose-your-own-adventure digital disc The X-Files Game. “That is as complex as I could get. It would take so a while for the [ball] to approach that I could move out of the way swiftly before it came to collide with me in the face.”

Anderson’s probability of success: 50%, based on the simple nature of the title and whether being hit by the ball, or not returning the ball back to the other player, would be lethal. Additionally, it’s really dim in Pong — could she fall off the arena to her demise? What does the black void of the game do to a person?

The Director

Position: 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 game the director believes he could survive in: Tomb Raider. “I was a child of the ’80s, so I was into the retro system and the gaming device, but the original experience that got to me was the very first Tomb Raider on the console,” he says. “Being a movie guy — it was the initial game that was so immersive, it was tactile. I'm uncertain that's the game I would actually desire to be in, but that was my initial amazing journey, at least.”

Joachim Rønning's probability of survival: Twenty percent. If Rønning was placed into a Tomb Raider world and had to deal with the animals and {booby traps