The New Tron Film Cast Think They Could Make It in Select Virtual Worlds (and We Evaluated Their Likelihood)

The original director's groundbreaking 1982 movie Tron largely occurs within the fantastical universe inside video games, where programs, envisioned as human-like figures in glowing costumes, compete on the digital arena in dangerous contests. Programs are mercilessly destroyed (or “deleted”) in the Combat Zone and crushed by force fields in digital vehicle showdowns. The filmmaker's 2010 continuation Tron: Legacy goes back inside the digital realm for further vehicle combat and more conflict on the virtual world.

The filmmaker's Legacy sequel Tron: Ares employs a marginally reduced game-like style. In the picture, digital entities still fight each other for existence on the virtual arena, but mostly in life-or-death conflicts over confidential information, serving as representatives for their business developers. Defensive entities and hacking tools clash on digital networks, and in the outside world, large vehicles and speed bikes brought from the Grid behave as they do in the digital environment.

The soldier software Ares (Jared Leto) is another recent development: a super-soldier who can be repeatedly replicated to engage in battles in the real world. But would the real-life actor have the real-world abilities to survive if he was inserted into one of the Grid’s contests? During a recent interview session, stars and directors of Tron: Ares were asked what virtual worlds they would be most likely to endure in. We have their replies — but we've also our own judgments about their skills to endure inside digital realms.

Greta Lee

Character: In Tron: Ares, Lee embodies the CEO, the leader of ENCOM, who is distracted from her leadership tasks as she tries to retrieve the key data believed to be remaining by the founder (the star).

The digital environment Greta Lee thinks she could endure in: “My little ones are extremely into Minecraft,” she states. “I'd never want them to know this, but [Minecraft] is so fantastic, the environments that they construct. I believe I would like to enter one of the realms that they've built. My little one has designed this one with beasts — it's just packed with parrots, because he loves parrots.”

Lee’s likelihood of success: 90%. If Lee simply stays with her kids’ parrots, she's safe. But it's unclear whether she understands how to evade or deal with a dangerous creature.

Evan Peters

Character: Peters portrays Julian Dillinger, the head of ENCOM rival Dillinger Systems and descendant of the original character (David Warner) from the initial Tron.

The digital environment Peters feels he could make it through: “I certainly would absolutely lose in the [Disc Arena],” he stated. “I might go into BioShock.” Clarifying that response to fellow actor Gillian Anderson, he says, “It's really such a great video game, it’s the top. BioShock, Fallout 3 and 4, amazing post-apocalyptic realms in Fallout, and the title is an underground, decrepit society.” Did he understand the query? Uncertain.

Evan Peters' chances of success: In BioShock? A low chance, similar to any other normal human's chances in the city. In any of the Fallout series? 10%, only based on his charm score.

Gillian Anderson

Part: Gillian Anderson portrays the mother, guardian to the character and offspring to the founder. She’s the previous leader of the company, and a increasingly calm leader than her son.

The game Gillian Anderson believes she could endure in: “Pong,” said the actress, in spite of her evident knowledge with the digital experience Myst and her supporting role in the late 1990s participatory software The X-Files Game. “That is as complex as I could manage. It would take so a while for the [ball] to come that I could duck out of the way swiftly before it reached to hit me in the body.”

The actress's likelihood of survival: Fifty percent, depending on the simple nature of Pong and whether receiving a blow by the ball, or not hitting the pixel back to the other player, would be fatal. Also, it’s very gloomy in Pong — could she tumble from the platform to her death? What does the dark abyss of the title do to a human?

Joachim Rønning

Position: Rønning is the filmmaker of Tron: Ares. He furthermore made Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.

The virtual world Joachim Rønning feels he could make it through: Tomb Raider. “I was a youngster of the ’80s, so I was fond of the home computer and the console, but the initial experience that got to me was the first ever Tomb Raider on PlayStation,” he states. “Being a cinema buff — it was the first game that was so captivating, it was physical. I doubt that's the environment I would truly want to be in, but that was my first amazing experience, at least.”

Joachim Rønning's likelihood of endurance: A low chance. If Rønning was transported into a Lara Croft world and had to contend with the creatures and {booby traps