TRON: Ares, the electrifying next chapter in Disney’s TRON franchise, expands upon the legacy of its technologically groundbreaking predecessors TRON (1982) and TRON: Legacy (2010) by exploring what it means to be human when the digital and physical world collide.
In the video above, Francesca Scrimgeour, an archivist with the Walt Disney Archives, shares a closer look at the iconic costumes, helmets, and identity discs that have evolved with each story — and whose legacies live on in TRON: Ares. Plus, she recounts how the filmmakers drew inspiration from a visit to Walt Disney’s offices in Burbank, Calif.
“That’s our whole mission,” Scrimgeour said. “We want to collect, preserve, share, and make available for research all these incredible items that are historical to the Walt Disney Company.”
“There’s something very valuable about being able to get your hands on the actual assets and see the art up close,” Justin Springer, who produced TRON: Legacy and TRON: Ares, said. He added that the Archives’ collection helped the filmmakers “draw that connective tissue between the films that came before and the ones we’re making now and into the future.”
See TRON: Ares in theaters, and stream TRON and TRON: Legacy, only on Disney+.