‘Tron: Ares’ Leaked Trailer Gives A New Look at Jared Leto’s Character

The leaked trailer of ‘Tron: Ares’ is currently doing rounds on the internet after Disney revealed it during the D23 on Friday night. Directed by Joachim Ronning, Tron: Ares will be released in theaters on October 10, 2025.

The first trailer reveals the first look at Jared Leto and takes us to an unfamiliar world of Tron where instead of getting transported into the video game world of Tron, the entities from the game's world have emerged in reality. Evan Peters‘ villain Julian Dillinger says in the trailer, “We’re not going there, they are coming here.” Tron's light cycles may be seen rushing along city streets, leaving laser-thin wakes and cutting automobiles in half. Jared Leto plays the Tron-like creature dressed in crimson, while Greta Lee portrays a brilliant programmer whose great work has Ares coming into the world.

Later in the trailer, Jared Leto's character says, “I came here to find something…something important.” We see him zooming on a light cycle with Lee’s character. Watch the leaked trailer below from Reddit.

Tron: Ares’ is based on a script written by Jesse Wigutow. The movie stars Jared Leto as Ares, a computer program on a journey from the digital world to that of humans on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I.

The cast of the movie includes Jared Leto as Ares, Greta Lee as Eve Kim, Evan Peters as Julian Dillinger, Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn, Hasan Minhaj, Jodie Turner-Smith, Arturo Castro, Cameron Monaghan, Gillian Anderson, and Sarah Desjardins.

Produced and released by Walt Disney Pictures, the Tron film franchise began with the release of Tron in 1982, which became a cult classic. The film stars Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn, a genius computer programmer and video game developer who becomes transported inside a digital virtual reality known as "The Grid", where he interacts with programs in his quest to escape. Bridges reprised his role in the 2010 sequel, Tron: Legacy which made more than $400 million at the box office on a budget of $170 million.