Tron: Ares Stars Think They Could Endure in Select Virtual Worlds (and We Rated Their Chances)

Steven Lisberger's iconic 1982 movie Tron mostly unfolds within the virtual universe inside video games, where digital beings, envisioned as characters in neon-streaked outfits, face off on the digital arena in lethal contests. The characters are ruthlessly eliminated (or “erased”) in the Combat Zone and crushed by energy barriers in light-cycle showdowns. Joseph Kosinski's 2010 continuation Tron: Legacy returns inside the virtual domain for more high-speed races and additional fighting on the digital plane.

The new director's Legacy sequel Tron: Ares adopts a slightly reduced game-like style. In the film, programs still battle each other for existence on the Grid, but primarily in critical conflicts over secretive files, functioning as agents for their company makers. Defensive entities and infiltration programs engage on corporate systems, and in the outside world, Recognizers and speed bikes exported from the Grid behave as they do in the digital environment.

The soldier software the protagonist (the actor) is a further modern creation: a super-soldier who can be repeatedly manufactured to fight wars in the physical realm. But would the flesh-and-blood Leto have the actual abilities to survive if he was transported into one of the digital arena's challenges? At a recent media gathering, stars and directors of Tron: Ares were questioned what virtual worlds they would be most apt to make it through. Here are their responses — but we have our own evaluations about their capabilities to survive inside digital realms.

Greta Lee

Role: In Tron: Ares, Lee portrays the executive, the leader of the corporation, who is diverted from her leadership tasks as she seeks to retrieve the key data assumed to be left behind by Kevin Flynn (the actor).

The digital environment Lee believes she could make it through: “My children are really into Minecraft,” she states. “I'd never want them to discover this, but [Minecraft] is so cool, the worlds that they create. I believe I would like to enter one of the worlds that they've made. My little one has designed this one with animals — it's just filled with birds, because he is fond of parrots.”

Lee’s probability of endurance: Ninety percent. If she simply stays with her children's birds, she's secure. But it's unknown whether she is aware of how to evade or handle a Creeper.

The Star

Role: the actor plays Julian Dillinger, the leader of opposing corporation the organization and relative of the founder (David Warner) from the first Tron.

The virtual world the actor thinks he could make it through: “I'd certainly fail in the [Disc Arena],” Peters stated. “I'd go into BioShock.” Clarifying that response to fellow actor the star, he states, “It is such a good digital experience, it’s the best. BioShock, Fallout 3 and 4, incredible ruined realms in the series, and the game is an subterranean, dilapidated dystopia.” Did he even comprehend the question? Uncertain.

Peters’ likelihood of success: In BioShock? Five percent, comparable to any other regular individual's chances in Rapture. In each Fallout series? Ten percent, only based on his charm score.

Gillian Anderson

Character: the actress embodies the mother, parent to the character and daughter to Ed. She’s the previous CEO of the company, and a more calm leader than the character.

The game the actress feels she could survive in: “Pong,” remarked Gillian Anderson, despite her obvious knowledge with the digital experience Myst and her supporting role in the late 1990s interactive digital disc The X-Files Game. “That's as sophisticated as I could handle. It'd take so a while for the [ball] to arrive that I could dodge out of the way promptly before it arrived to hit me in the head.”

Anderson’s probability of success: 50%, considering the basic nature of Pong and whether being hit by the pixel, or not volleying the ball back to the adversary, would be deadly. Also, it’s really dark in Pong — could she tumble from the arena to her demise? What does the black void of the game affect a individual?

Joachim Rønning

Role: the director is the helmer of Tron: Ares. He furthermore helmed Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.

The virtual world the director feels he could survive in: Tomb Raider. “I'm a youngster of the ’80s, so I was interested in the Commodore 64 and the Atari, but the initial experience that captivated me was the first ever Tomb Raider on the console,” he says. “As a cinema buff — it was the initial experience that was so captivating, it was physical. I doubt that's the title I would actually want to be in, but that was my first remarkable adventure, at least.”

Rønning’s likelihood of success: A low chance. If he was transported into a Lara Croft world and had to deal with the creatures and {booby traps