Nine Inch Nails , Trent Reznor ‘s industrial indie rock group of many incarnations, is coming together to take on the score of Disney’s Tron: Ares . The reveal about the upcoming sci-fi pic took place Friday night during a presentation at D23 . Just like Daft Punk was responsible for the sound of 2010’s Tron: Legacy , NIN are giving this Tron its futuristic sonic sound.
That Tron: Legacy album wound up breaking soundtrack records back during its release. Tron: Ares is the third film in the Tron sci-fi franchise. Starring the returning Jared Leto, the plot 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 AI beings.
It’s directed by Joachim Rønning. Original star Jeff Bridges also returns with a cast that includes Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Hasan Minhaj, Jodie Turner-Smith, Arturo Castro, Cameron Monaghan and Gillian Anderson. It has an October 10, 2025 release date after going into production this past January.
Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails was mostly a one-man band after he formed it in the late 1980s, hitting it big with 1989’s Pretty Hate Machine, which went triple platinum. Eventually, a rotating group of musicians joined Reznor on later NIN albums and incarnations, notably frequent collaborator Atticus Ross in 2016. Ross and Reznor have become a formidable movie music duo, collaborating among others with David Fincher for his pics The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Social Network and Mank , winning the Original Score Oscar in 2011 for Social Network .
With Mank they were actually nominated twice in 2021, winning along with John Batiste for Disney/Pixar’s Soul . The Tron franchise launched in 1982 starring Bridges as video game creator Kevin Flynn, which became a cult classic. It took until 2010 for the follow-up, Tron: Legacy , introducing Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde to the cast.
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