In Tron: Legacy, Jeff Bridges was rejuvenated using CGI – with dubious results. Image source: Disney
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Does the sight of the digitally rejuvenated Jeff Bridges from Tron: Legacy send shivers down your spine? If so, you're in good company, because the actor himself is anything but happy with the result.
Nevertheless, Jeff Bridges returns for Tron: Ares. For the third time in the film, which will be released in cinemas in 2025, he will presumably slip into the role of programmer Kevin Flynn, who has to cope in cyberspace.
Really excited
on collaboration with Jared Leto
In a new edition of Film Comment Podcasts The 74-year-old character mime (The Big Lebowski, Iron Man) confirms that he is back in front of the camera for Tron: Ares. Loud Variety are the Filming has already been completed.
He particularly enjoyed working with lead actor Jared Leto. In the podcast recorded before filming began, Jeff Bridges explains that he really excited about it
was to work with the former Joker actor and his work admire
.
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He does not reveal any further information about the film. It is already known that the film, which appears 42 years after the first part, is being produced by director Joachim Ronning (Maleficent, Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge).
The other cast includes Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Hasan Minhaj, Jodie Turner-Smith, Arturo Castro, Cameron Monaghan and Gillian Anderson. The pivotal point of the plot will be the computer program Ares, embodied by Jared Leto, for which there is already a first image:
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“Kinda bizarre”: No good memories of Tron: Legacy
The return of Jeff Bridges is very likely to have taken place on the condition that his appearance is not subjected to another makeover via digital de-aging.
Bridges himself didn't like the visual result eitheras he tells it in the podcast:
I didn't like how I was [in Tron: Legacy] looked like. I felt like I looked more like Bill Maher than myself. It was kind of bizarre.
We dug deep into our video archive and dusted off the trailer for Tron: Legacy for you. So if you would like to get your own impression of the rejuvenated Jeff Bridges, please:
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Tron: Legacy – Trailer for the successor to the sci-fi cult film – Trailer for the successor to the sci-fi cult film
Whether the American stand-up comedian Bill Maher Does Jeff Bridges' comparison above seem like a compliment?
In any case, the actor for Tron: Ares has some good news up his sleeve: According to him, things will work out during production less AI stuff
and instead more practical sets set. I saw some beautiful sets
traitor.
By the way, did you notice that we wrote at the beginning of the article that Jeff Bridges presumed
Kevin Flynn will once again impersonate. Admittedly, anything other than a return to this role would be surprising, but it should be noted that it has not yet been officially confirmed which character he will breathe life into.