Tron Ares Trailer Blows Up The Internet With Insane IMAX Footage

Disney dropped a fresh Tron: Ares trailer, and it is very much an IMAX flex — new footage, big scale, lots of neon. Tickets are already on sale, which tells you how confident they are about people wanting to see tanks the size of buildings in 1.43:1.

What the new trailer actually shows

The footage zeroes in on Ares, a mysterious A.I. Program played by Jared Leto, who gets yanked out of the digital world and into ours by Julian Dillinger (Evan Peters). Ares is pitched as a next-gen soldier who can be 'respawned' when he dies — a video game idea turned literal — and, surprise, that kind of power does not stay under control for long.

If the name Dillinger rings a bell, you are not imagining things. That is a surname Tron fans will clock immediately. The trailer leans hard into the real-world crossover angle, which fits the official setup:

'Tron: Ares follows a highly sophisticated Program, Ares, who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind's first encounter with A.I. beings.'

Cast, crew, and where this lands in the franchise

• Cast: Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Hasan Minhaj, Jodie Turner-Smith, Arturo Castro, Cameron Monaghan, Gillian Anderson, Jeff Bridges, Sarah Desjardins
• Director: Joachim Ronning (Maleficent: Mistress of Evil in 2019; Young Woman and the Sea in 2024; co-directed Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales in 2017)
• Writer: Jesse Wigutow
• Series placement: third Tron feature after Tron (1982) and Tron: Legacy (2010)

Release details

Tron: Ares hits U.S. theaters and IMAX on October 10, 2025, via Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Tickets are on sale now. The trailer is clearly built to sell the IMAX presentation, and honestly, that is probably the right call for a franchise that lives and dies on scale and glow.